Good communication is integral to effective healthcare provision. Communication failures, or
errors, between doctors and patients or between professionals can result in patients being …

Context Reports from patients and health care workers dealing with coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) underscore experiences of isolation and fear. Some of this experience …

Collaboration between family caregivers and health care providers is necessary to ensure
patient-centered care, especially for hospice patients. During hospice care, interdisciplinary …

Background PaTz (an acronym for 'PAlliatieve Thuis Zorg'; palliative care at home) is an
intervention to improve palliative care provision and strengthen the generalist knowledge of …

OBJECTIVES: To describe family communication patterns that give shape to four types of
family caregivers: Manager, Carrier, Partner, and Loner. DATA SOURCES: Case studies of …

The need to attend to terminally ill persons and provide improved quality of living and dying
should be a national priority in Canada. Hospice palliative care (HPC), a person-centered …

Background: The concept of the modern palliative care movement was initially developed by
Cecily Saunders. She believed that the complex emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of …

Introduction: Older adults are admitted to long-term care (LTC) homes with advanced
disease progression, complexity and acuity. There is a need for starting end-of-life (EOL) …

WORKING IN a Magnet® organization that's a teaching facility with 988 beds and three
campuses can be challenging. Patient care units specialize in everything from trauma to …

This study compared active teaching strategies with passive lecture by evaluating cognitive,
affective, and psychomotor learning outcomes, while highlighting end-of-life communication …