Clinicians experience times when personal and professional relationships may seem
blurred. The effective home care or hospice professional is vigilant about being aware of this …

This article draws upon the emotion at work literature to explore how workers manage their
feelings in dealing with death as a routine part of their working lives. It focuses on a specific …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is profoundly affecting neurology
patients, families, and providers through direct neurologic complications, 1 indirect …

Facing an excessive number of deaths and the intense emotions of bereaved family
members, social workers who work with dying and bereaved persons are confronted with …

Objective: General practitioners (GPs) play an integral role in addressing the psychological
needs of palliative care patients and their families. This qualitative study investigated …

ObjectivesTo develop and validate Professional Bereavement Scale (PBS), a specific
measurement tool for professional bereavement experiences. MethodsAn online cross …

Background The aim of this study was to explore how palliative care staff reason about the
autonomy challenge that arises when a patient who has first said he wants full information …

Background: Although practitioners overwhelmingly agree on the importance of advance
care planning (ACP) and preparing for the end of life (EOL), the process is fraught with …

In this paper, we offer a phenomenological and hermeneutical perspective on the presence
of clinicians who care for the suffering and dying patients in the context of end-of-life care …

In this paper, we examine the use of creative methods for understanding the experience of
young adults aged between 16 and 30 years over a year following a cancer diagnosis …