Objective: Care in the emergency department focuses significantly on delivering
lifesaving/life-sustaining clinical actions, often with limited attention to health-related …

Background Registered nurses report the experience of delivering end of life care in
emergency departments as challenging. The study aim was to understand what it is like to …

Aim The aim of this integrative literature review was to explore the quality of the dying and
death experience in the Emergency Department from the perspective of staff and carers …

CONTEXT: Transitions near the end of life have not been well articulated and the end-of-life
(EOL) phase is not well understood in the emergency department (ED). The sudden and …

The emergency department (ED) is a fast‐paced, highly stressful environment where
clinicians function with little or suboptimal information and where time is measured in …

In an ageing society, like the UK, where long-term illness dominates healthcare, there has
been a change in the way that the end-of-life is approached and experienced. Advancing …

Background End of life care in the emergency department is environmentally and culturally
challenging. The aim of this study was to determine Australian emergency department …

There have been significant advancements in the fields of medicine, demography, and
pathology. These disciplines have contributed to the classification and control of death and …

Purpose To gain greater understanding of what it means to care for older patients dying from
traumatic injuries in the emergency department. Design A Heideggerian phenomenological …

Aim: To explore how ward staff, including nurses and healthcare support workers,
experience patient death in an acute medical setting. Method Thirteen staff, from two acute …