Aims and objectives To explore how nurses, across various health systems, describe their
role in providing palliative care for patients with life‐threatening illnesses. Background …

Background: Palliative care exists in diverse healthcare settings. Nurses play a crucial role
in its provision. Different levels of palliative care provision and education have been …

Nursing education needs to prepare students for care of dying patients. The aim of this study
was to describe the development of nursing students' attitudes toward caring for dying …

Aim: To describe first-year nursing students' experiences of witnessing death and providing
end-of-life care. Methods: This study is part of a larger longitudinal project. Interviews (n= 17) …

shorter m. & stayt lc (2010) Critical care nurses' experiences of grief in an adult intensive
care unit. Journal of Advanced Nursing66 (1), 159–167. Abstract Title. Critical care nurses' …

Background: It is necessary to develop palliative care to meet existing and future needs of
patients and their families. It is important to include knowledge of patient preferences when …

Nurses working with cancer patients in end of life care need to be prepared to encounter
patients' psychosocial and spiritual distress. Aim The aim of this study was to describe …

Previous research has linked death attitudes, palliative care self-efficacy, and attitudes
toward care of the dying among nursing students and other nursing samples, but not among …

Purpose This study aimed to understand patient and carer experiences of end of life care
and to explore how patients care for themselves at the end of life in Scotland. Research …

Communication skills are paramount in effective delivery of palliative care. The emphasis in
much of the previous literature has been on physician communication and also has been …