Access to palliative care for marginalized communities is frequently problematized as a
major challenge facing palliative care services. The traditional response of asking what …

Background: Care of the dying is a significant component of nursing practice particularly in
hospitals. Nurses who work in certain areas like oncology, intensive care unit (ICU) face the …

Palliative care in community contexts is undergoing significant change as a result of public
policy and new models of care, which link health promotion principles with palliative care …

Background Specialist palliative care is often provided late in the patient's disease trajectory
in response to uncontrolled symptoms. Shifting from this reactionary illness-stress paradigm …

The number of people dying at home rather than in a hospital is increasing, albeit slowly.
This coincides with a growing emphasis across the UK to increase choice and enable …

End-of-life care pathways are championed around the globe as tools that might be used to
enhance the quality of care at the very end of a person's life. This paper examines recent …

Introduction The world is experiencing an ageing population with the numbers requiring
palliative and end of life care (PEOLC) increasing and many of those people will receive …

Nurses are the primary healthcare professionals that spend the most time caring for
seriously ill patients. Nurses have a responsibility to care for patients at the end of their lives …

Abstract Nos Cuidados Paliativos os últimos dias e horas de vida, designados também por
fase de agonia, constituem presentemente foco de atenção de profissionais de saúde e …

This research aimed to understand the factors attracting qualified nurses to the practice of
homeopathy and the influence if any, their respective identities as nurses and homeopaths …