As the demand for palliative care services increases in Canada, nurses continue to play a
vitally important role on the interprofessional team. However, many nurses feel ill prepared …

Palliative care nurses provide care for patients who live with declining functional capacity
and symptoms associated with their illnesses and who, ultimately, face death. Despite a …

Aim: To describe the qualitatively different ways a group of Australian nurses, understood
their experience of being a palliative care nurse. Design: The research approach chosen …

Palliative care aims to alleviate the suffering of patients with life-limiting illness while
promoting their quality of life. In this call to action commentary, we review the ways in which …

Palliative Care has been described as care that includes the physical, intellectual,
emotional, social, and spiritual needs of an individual when they are diagnosed with a …

Palliative care nursing has a distinctive and honorable history that houses a unique and
particular culture of nurses. The act and art of nursing in the obligation of accompanying the …

Many associate undergoing palliative care with being close to death, or confuse it with end
of life care, and there is broad lack of understanding over how it interacts with curative …

Aims and objectives The purpose of the study was to examine nurses' and nursing
assistants' perspectives of a palliative approach in a variety of nursing care settings that do …

Palliative Care Nursing, Quality Care to the End of Life explore “what has changed and what
remains” in palliative care nursing since the first edition of this book was published in 2001 …

Palliative Care Nursing: Caring for Suffering Patients explores the concept of suffering as it
relates to nursing practice. This text helps practicing nurses and students define and …