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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Death and Dying"”.
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PHYSICIAN'S EXPERIENCES WITH DEATH AND DYING: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
… to gain the physician's essences, meanings and understanding surrounding death and dying. Starting with themes revealed in literature, in-depth interviews were used to ask selected physicians providing care: How does death affect them? Are physicians receiving adequate training in …
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Dialysis nurses discussing advance care planning and death and dying with patients
BACKGROUND Dialysis nurses in New Zealand look after dialysis patients dealing with a chronic life-limiting illness: end stage kidney disease. The nurses often develop close relationships with their patients and become involved in discussions about death and dying with them and their families. …
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Music, death, and dying : a systematic review of hospice and palliative care literature
ABSTRACTMUSIC, DEATH, AND DYING:A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE LITERATUREByVirginia A. AndersonThe purpose of this research was to categorize, code and summarize articles and abstracts on music therapy and palliative care and hospice in order to highlight themes and trends, as …
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Death, Power, and the Body: A Bio-political Analysis of Death and Dying
… the focus of an infinite amount of both micro and macro management strategies, the point of which being to optimize health and to prolong life. Foucault labeled such strategies as " bio-power." While bio-power exists on many levels of society, my focus has been on certain medical technologies …
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Patterns of Psychological Adaptation in Death and Dying: A Causal Model and Exploratory Study
… sex, length of illness, pain, social support, and physical function as they affected psychological adaptation in dying. An adaptation paradigm of constructs from nursing, illness, and dying provided the theoretical framework which was used to formulate and test a causal model. This study, in …
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The effect of an experiential death and dying awareness workshop on expressed anxiety toward death
… participated in a 10 to 12 hour experiential death education workshop. The program emphasized basic communication skills in exploring death and dying issues. Satir’s communication patterns were used in a simulated family planning event; participants were encouraged to write in a journal after …
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Attitudes Toward Death and Dying Between Chinese and American College Students
… research was to examine the attitudes toward death and dying of Chinese college students in Mainland China, PRC, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, ROC and to compare their attitudes with those of their American counterparts. Four major questions were addressed in the research. With respect to …
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A comparative study of hospice vs nonhospice nurses' attitudes toward death and dying and level of death anxiety
… survey was to assess nurses' attitudes toward death and dying and level of death anxiety. Sixty nine nurses from nonhospice and hospice settings were surveyed. Findings indicated the hospice nurses had a more positive attitude toward death and dying and lower level of death anxiety than …
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Death and dying what are the psychological consequences for Emergency Medial Care personnel in the Cape Town Metropole ?
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Death and dying in the emergency department: a phenomenological study of the experiences of family members and nursing staff
… qualitative nursing study has been to understand the experience of death and dying in the emergency department of a hospital, through listening to the experiences of bereaved family members and nursing staff. Death and dying remain taboo subjects in society today and therefore people may come …
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Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel: Studies in Form and Meaning from James Joyce to Anne Enright
… negotiates shifting cultural conceptions of death and dying across the twentieth century. Analyzing a cross-section of important novels — James Joyce’s Ulysses, Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room, Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies, John McGahern’s The Barracks and Anne Enright’s The Gathering — my study …
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Exploring the meanings of death and dying and the burden of living with HIV/AIDS in Soweto, a South African township
… for a palliative care service in Soweto, and find out which issues were of concern to the people who would be potentially receiving these services. The aim is to understand meaning of death and dying and the burden of living with HIV/AIDS.
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Journeying on to a better place? The processes and experiences associated with working around death and dying in care homes for older people.
… within care homes for the older person in Scotland. The move to single status homes meant that the traditional divide between nursing and residential homes no longer existed. The experiences of workers were largely under-represented in literature and research. Very little was known of carers’, …
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Beyond the Edges - A study on how the intangible dimensions of death and dying can be made accessible through the language of film
… was inspired from a need to make sense of death and potentially dying from my own personal history and the lack of cinematic/filmic contributions that would have helped to understand the internal turmoil and questions that arose at the time, as well as the connected emotions. The question …
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Our Last Supper:
… that when Molisans have conversations about death and dying, they will be more willing to accept their own mortality. In addition, I advocate for musical theatre as a uniquely effective medium for death education through which Molisans will be inspired to continue to discuss death and dying. …
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