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 …

Aim Nurses have a critical role in providing holistic care for people with life-limiting
conditions. However, they experience internal moral conflict and powerlessness when …

The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) considers sedation to be an important
and necessary therapy in the care of selected palliative care patients with otherwise …

Aims and objectives To explore nursing students' experiences of death and dying in clinical
practice. Background The encounter with death constitutes one of the most stressful …

Background Clinical nursing practice may involve moral distress, which has been reported
to occur frequently when nurses care for dying patients. Palliative sedation is a practice that …

Context In end-of-life care, delirium is often not recognized and poses unique management
challenges, especially in the case of refractory delirium in the terminal phase. Objectives To …

bruce a. & boston p.(2011) Relieving existential suffering through palliative sedation:
discussion of an uneasy practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing67 (12), 2732–2740. Abstract …

Context Patients with terminal cancer experience refractory symptoms in the last days of life.
Although palliative sedation (PS) is recommended for patients suffering unbearable …

Context Numerous attempts have been made to describe and define sedation in end-of-life
care over time. However, confusion and inconsistency in the use of terms and definitions …

CONTEXT: Guidelines about palliative sedation typically include recommendations to
protect the well-being of relatives. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to systematically …