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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Hospice and Palliative Care"”.
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Spiritual Perspective, Mindfulness, and Spiritual Care Practices of Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses
<p>Spiritual care is an ethical obligation of the nursing profession and an essential component of palliative care, but is often misunderstood. Lack of conceptual clarity is problematic, for each nurse will provide spiritual care based on his or her understanding of what this care should …
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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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A Sociological Critique of 'Grand Narratives' in the History of Hospice and Palliative Care
This thesis is a sociological history and critique of hospice and palliative care: their goals, narratives, and social, clinical and ethical practices. Hospice developed in Britain as a result of and challenge to interventionist biomedicine within hospitals where dying came to be viewed as medical …
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Beyond the Loss of a Child in the NICU: The Social Worker's Role
… role of social workers in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The classical and contemporary perspectives of grief theory provide the framework for understanding emotional responses of bereaved parents to the death of a child. The academic social work, medical, and nursing literature reviewed …
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Can Water Professionals Transform Pharmaceutical Disposal Practices of Hospice Nurses?
… the current pharmaceutical disposal practices of hospice nurses, the attitudes of hospice nurses regarding current pharmaceutical disposal practices, and explore ways to educate the hospice community about the concerns associated with flushing pharmaceuticals. The study consisted of reviewing …
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An evaluation of palliative care in rural Tanzania where availability of oral morphine is intermittent or absent
In Tanzania, palliative care is relatively new, and faces the common challenges of access to services, crucial medications, and education. Since 2004, an initiative within the health system of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) began to promote and develop palliative care, using as …
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How Spirituality Training impacts the Practice of Social Workers Assisting Elderly Clients in End-of-Live Care: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Approach
Social workers in end-of-life care settings are presented with many challenges. They are not only confronted by the common stressors associated with death and dying, but also with the existential concerns of the patients and their families. Social workers typically outnumber spiritual advisors or …
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Medication Cost and Utilization in Hospice Care: An Analysis of 2007 Claims Data
Objectives:</p><p> 1. Describe patient-related and hospice-related characteristics such as gender, average length of hospice stay, primary diagnoses, average daily census, number of admissions per year, net operating revenues, inpatient unit (IPU) operating costs, and medication expenditures of …
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A Distinction Without A Moral Difference? An Essay On The Difference Between Palliative Sedation And Physician-Assisted Death
<p>Professionals engaged in palliative care have a responsibility to treat their patients by aggressively managing pain and certain kinds of suffering within legal and professional ethical boundaries. Many medical professionals and ethicists, rightly or wrongly, have considered the practices of …
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Hospice Care in Malaysia: Knowledge, Attitude and Time of Discussion
<p>Despite available and adequate hospice care resources, fewer terminally ill patients in Malaysia use hospice care services than one might reasonably expect. It is reported that only around 10% of patients who die of terminal illness in Malaysia, die in hospice care (Devaraj, 2003). The projected …