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Showing 1 to 20 of 332 for “"Palliative Care"”.
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Assessing palliative care policies in Africa: Implication for paediatric palliative care
… world, there are millions of children who need palliative care from the moment they are diagnosed with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses, yet very few children have access to palliative care services. In many African countries, where palliative care is still new, many children with …
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Palliative Care Consultation Trajectories
… VA) mandated that all VA hospitals have a palliative care consult team: PCCT) to provide services to veterans with life-limiting illness. PCCTs within the VA are new, so little is known about their efficacy and utilization. The purpose of this study is to examine the timing of PCCT …
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Palliative Care: Viewpoints from Nurses
TITLE: Palliative Care: Viewpoints from Nurses Palliative Care has been described as care that includes the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of an individual when they are diagnosed with a serious or life-limiting illness. The ultimate goal of palliative care is to …
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Improving Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Team Rounding
University of Washington Abstract Improving Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Team Rounding Mikka Marun Uehara, BSN, RN, DNP-AGNP-PC Student Chair of the Supervisory Committee:Elizabeth Bridges, PhD, RN, CCNS, FCCM, FAAN Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics Eeeseung Byun, PhD, RN …
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Ethics of palliative care in practice.
Contains fulltext : 48291.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Systemic and Racial Barriers to Palliative Care
… process. The specialty of Hospice and Palliative Medicine was created specifically with these difficult, but very common, situations in mind. Even though the concept of palliative care has become mainstream and its practice is considered standard of care in many situations, it continues …
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Palliative Care Education to Increase Outpatient Provider Knowledge and Palliative Care Referral Intent Within Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks
… Examine outpatient providers' perceptions of palliative care education in increasing their understanding, knowledge of resources, and intent to refer. Research questions/goals: 1) Increase provider understanding about palliative care and the benefits that patients can receive as a result of …
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An Examination of Uncertainty in Perinatal Palliative Care
… derive specifically from addressing medical care at the end of life, and these issues become particularly complicated when the patient in question is a neonate or a woman carrying a fetus. Providing palliative and end-of-life care for these patients requires a complex interaction of clinical …
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A Conceptual Analysis of Canadian Palliative Care Ethics
Introduction: In the palliative care literature there has been debate over the occurrence and the desirability of the rationalization of palliative care. The discussion is based mostly on opinion, anecdote and argument. Little discussion is based on research, or is specific to Canada. Considering …
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THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF ABLEISM AND PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE
… process. We must support the patients and their caregivers and utilize everything at our disposal to ensure that we are safeguarding their quality of life.
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Drug Combinations in Palliative Care: A Compatibility Study
End of life care often involves the use of combinations of more than one drug in a syringe for administration by a continuous subcutaneous infusion using a syringe driver or pump. This is considered to be an effective method of symptom management and can provide a good control of symptoms. The …
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Nurse Practitioner Role Enactment in Community Palliative Care
Abstract Background: Access to adequate palliative care has been identified as a challenge globally, in Canada, and in the province of Ontario. While pockets of excellence exist, there is a national call for allocation of resources and implementation of best practices to improve the care for …
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An Investigation of the Benefits of Palliative Care for Patients with Chronic Heart Failure at a Novel Hospital-Based Palliative Care Service.
… cardiac condition that would benefit from palliative care and yet palliative care is still mainly provided for people with cancer or HIV. Patients with end-stage heart failure experience similar clinical symptoms as patients with advanced cancer with significant physical and emotional …
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Emotional support in palliative care nursing: a concept analysis.
… the use of the term emotional support within palliative care nursing. The term žemotional supportŸ appears frequently in the nursing literature, however, there is no clear definition of what it is and its application in nursing practice. Thus resulting in a vague and ambiguous term, raising …
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Palliative Care Knowledge among Bachelors of Science Nursing Students
<p><strong>Purpose</strong>: To assess the palliative care (PC) knowledge of junior and senior level bachelors of science nursing (BSN) students and to compare the PC knowledge between these two groups of students.</p> <p><strong>Design</strong>: A non-experimental quantitative, cross-sectional, …
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Dignity In Palliative Care: The Hospice at Skogafoss Falls
… that seems to be lost in most modern health care facilities. This thesis proposes a 30-bed hospice to be built along the Skógafoss falls in Skógar, Iceland. The hospice design addresses the patientsâ connections to the physician, structure and natural surroundings through articulation of …
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A retrospective cross-sectional analysis of palliative care needs and interventions in patients with cervical cancer in a palliative care unit in Soweto, Johannesburg
… study was to describe and provide an analysis of Palliative Care and total pain needs in patients diagnosed with cervical cancer in two Gauteng hospitals. Objectives The objectives were to determine the physical, psycho-social, and spiritual symptom burden of cervical cancer patients and assess …
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An Ethnographic Study of Palliative Care in a Nigerian Hospital
Palliative care has become an important public health issue in recent years and has been declared a universal human right. A wealth of literature can be found describing its effectiveness and numerous benefits, yet significant disparities exist in worldwide palliative care development between, and …
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Identifying and changing attitudes toward palliative care: an exploratory study
Research suggests that palliative care is poorly understood and often associated with imminent death (Canny, 2002). This, in turn, can negatively impact upon the transition to palliative care services. The aims of this three phase, multi-method study were to: (1) examine and compare the attitudes …
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Clinicians’ Perspectives on Adopting a Lung Cancer Palliative Care Intervention
… the significant progress in implementing palliative care interventions for cancer patients, few intervention studies seek healthcare clinicians’ input prior to implementation. The purpose of this research was then to explore palliative care and oncology clinicians’ (e.g., physicians, …
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