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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Hospices"”.
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An investigation into Stress and Coaching-needs in the National Health Service and UK Hospices
… by members of staff working within two hospices in the UK. Phase 2 is a qualitative study using two focus groups, one at each hospice, to obtain a deeper understanding of the findings of phase 1. Phase 3 is an evaluation of a brief group coaching intervention for stress management, which …
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Palliative care for life-limited children and young adults: the role of medical care in the development of children’s and young adults’ hospice services.
… [PPM] within children’s and young adults’ [CYA] hospices has developed in an ad hoc manner. To date, clear description and classification of PPM service provision within CYA hospices has been absent (Help the Hospices Commission 2013; TfSL 2013). National guidelines state that specialist …
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Strategic asset or optional extra? : The impact of volunteers on hospice sustainability
… is a vital and integral part of UK independent hospices. Volunteers were the founders of many, if not all, UK hospices. Today, hospices are still heavily dependent on volunteers to raise funds and undertake a wide range of roles which help to support the patients and their families. Trustees, …
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A hospice és a haldoklás kommunikációja. A hospice helye a mai világban, a közgondolkodásban és az Y generáció életszemléletében = Communication in hospices and in the process of dying. The place of hospices in our time, in public discourse and in the way life is seen by generation Y
A disszertáció egy kérdőíves felmérésre támaszkodva elemzi és bemutatja a fiatalok viszonyulását a halál és haldoklás témájához, összegzi véleményüket és tapasztalatukat a terminális állapotban lévő betegekkel kapcsolatban, valamint egy „pillanatképet” alkot ezen fiatalok tájékozottságáról a …
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The Catholic Church and its Healing Mission: A case of our lady, mother of mercy and mother Teresa Hospices' care for HIV and AIDS patients in Zambia
… alleviate the sufferings of AIDS patients. These hospices operate on principles of combining teaching and clinical research, and they are experts in pain and symptom relief with holistic care to meet the physical, social, psychological and spiritual comfort of patients and their families. This is …
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The Catholic Church and its Healing Mission: A case of our lady, mother of mercy and mother Teresa Hospices' care for HIV and AIDS patients in Zambia
… alleviate the sufferings of AIDS patients. These hospices operate on principles of combining teaching and clinical research, and they are experts in pain and symptom relief with holistic care to meet the physical, social, psychological and spiritual comfort of patients and their families. This is …
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Medication Cost and Utilization in Hospice Care: An Analysis of 2007 Claims Data
… operating costs, and medication expenditures of hospices in Ohio and compare it with NHPCO data.</p><p> 2. Identify and analyze therapeutic drug classes and medications with the most frequent utilization rates and largest percentage of expenditures in hospice care.</p><p> Method:</p><p> Hospice …
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Relationship Between The Team Approach and Stress Management Among Hospice Workers
… chaplain from each of seven Medicare-certified hospices in Iowa. Both qualitative and demographic data were gathered. Data indicate that differences exist in perceptions of team integrality and the degree the three professional groups of hospice workers. Literature related to the study was …
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Understanding the experiences of community hospice volunteers : a narrative analysis
… community volunteers is relatively uncommon in hospices in the United Kingdom, in contrast to their use across the voluntary sector, and there is limited research available about hospice volunteers’ experiences. This research addresses this perceived gap in knowledge by exploring how visiting …
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Evaluation of the development needs of palliative care programme managers in the context of providing quality palliative care to increasing numbers of patients in Kenya, Malawi and South Africa
… needs of palliative care programme managers in hospices in Kenya, Malawi and South Africa. The findings reveal that palliative care programme managers have professional development needs related to their management function that include an on-going professional development programme, training in …
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A Sociological Critique of 'Grand Narratives' in the History of Hospice and Palliative Care
… hospice philosophy was practiced in volimtary hospices that were charitable organisations deliberately located outside the National Health Service. An exponential growth in the number of such organisations during the 1970s and 1980s spawned a movement which subsequently led to the creation of a …
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Space, Place and Home: Lived experiences of hospice day care
… or alternative medicine (CAM), with hospices being the largest provider of this care in the UK. The high demand for CAM among UK cancer patients and increasing political pressure to develop CAM services has led to a more integrative approach to cancer care, though progress is hindered …
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'Can we fix it?!': understanding the impact of children’s hospice short breaks on parental relationships of life-limited and life-threatened children and young people.
… impact of short breaks provided by children’s hospices on the partner relationship between parents. The specific objectives of the study were to: (1) explore parents’ perceptions of parenting life-limited/ threatened children or young people on their relationships, (2) determine if frequent …
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Working in palliative care: exploring community nurses' experiences of their work
… in two research settings, St Luke’s Combined Hospices and Tygerberg Hospice, which are both non-profit organisations providing Palliative Care in the community. Permission was gained to conduct research by the St Luke’s Combined Hospices Research Ethics Committee, and the Palliative Care …
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The Effects of Parent's Religious Coping on Children's Functioning after Loss
… recruited from churches, bereavement groups, hospices, palliative care programs and from victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Individuals who lost a spouse within the past 3 years and who had a child between the ages of 7 and 14 years participated. Parents described the …
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Service Utilization among Bereaved Spouses and Family Caregivers
… bereaved spousal caregivers of patients of three hospices in Tampa Bay. Taken together, results of the current studies point to the importance of family physicians and members of the clergy in the provision of services to bereaved family caregivers and to the prominent role of bereavement outcomes …
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Psychotherapy Using Distance Technology: A Comparison of Face -to -Face, Video, and Audio Treatments
… people in restricted conditions such as prisons, hospices, military installations, nursing homes, and remote rural areas, as well as to people homebound due to physical or emotional disability. Since it appears that the therapeutic alliance can be built regardless of technological mediation, …
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The caregiving relationship : palliative caregivers' relationships with patients and families
… with twenty-six participants at four different hospices in Great Britain. A total of thirty-six individual interviews were conducted using a long-interview design. The analyses of the data in this study suggested that the relationship experiences of hospice caregivers with patients and families …
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The use of anticholinergic agents to treat excessive oropharyngeal and tracheal secretions in palliative care
… study examined treatment of death rattle in two Hospices focusing on objective and subjective outcome measures in order to determine the efficacy of anticholinergic regimens in current use. Qualitative methods were employed to elicit attitudes of professionals and carers working closely with the …
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An exploration of the measurement of resilience in palliative care workers
… care sector using adult samples working in hospices, acute wards, and community settings. The first study was a systematic and methodological review of resilience measurement scales to understand how resilience is currently being conceptualised in the peer reviewed literature. The second …
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