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Hospice nurses' experience of caring for the elderly with wounds at the end-of-life.
Background: The goal of hospice care is to maximize quality of life and provide peace, comfort, and dignity to patients with terminal illness. Older dying patients pose unique challenges to meeting this essential goal, especially in the care of wounds. Wound care in dying patients can be complex, …
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Pain Management in Nursing Home Residents with Cancer and Dementia with and without Hospice Services
… in pain management between two groups; nursing home residents with malignant cancer and dementia with and without hospice services. </p> <p><strong>Methods</strong>: Decedent records from 2003-2009 were assessed for diagnosis of dementia and cause of death as cancer. Ten malignant cancer …
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Conflict Resolution Among Terminally Ill Cancer Patients and Their Families: How Nurses Intervene
… each nurse was asked to rank order in terms of nursing interventions. These responses represented nursing interventions by: l) authoritarian action; 2) turning conflict over to physician; 3) ignoring the conflict by taking the side of the caregiver; 4) ignoring the caregiver's perception; and 5) …