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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Terminally ill"”.
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A situational analysis of children living with terminally ill parents
… of children living with and caring for their terminally ill parents. Design: This study is a cross-sectional descriptive survey. Setting: A rural district in a middle-income country. Main outcome measures: Demography of households, symptoms of the sick parent, attributes of child carers, how …
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Designing the Threshold: A Holistic Center for the Terminally Ill
If Architecture can express the joy of birth and all the infinite aspects of human life, then Architecture can celebrate death as a final rite of passage. Can Architecture celebrate man's transition into the afterlife? How does this celebration translate literally into something tangible? How does …
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Investigation of the palliative care needs of patients terminally ill with AIDS
Includes bibliographical references.
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Student nurses' attitudes toward sexuality in the care of the terminally ill
… of sexual health in nursing care of the terminally ill client. Attitudes were measured by using the Rogers' Attitudes Toward Human Sexuality (ATS) scale and Rogers' Attitudes Toward Inclusion of Client Sexual Health in Nursing Care of the Terminally Ill Client (ATN) scale. A convenience …
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Conflict Resolution Among Terminally Ill Cancer Patients and Their Families: How Nurses Intervene
… with terminal cancer of the breast or prostate will experience increased conflict because of all the changes that occur with this prognosis. The problem explored in this study was how nurses facilitated conflict resolution among terminally ill patients and their families. The research design …
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Nutritional support for the terminally ill patient: attitudes and ethics education of dietitians
… dilemmas surrounding nutritional support for terminally ill patients. In addition, the methods and adequacy of ethics training received in dietetics education and in supervised experience programs, such as the Approved Preprofessional Practice Program (AP4), Coordinated Program in Dietetics …
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Opinions of registered dietitians on the withholding and withdrawing of food and fluid in the terminally ill
… and withdrawing of nutritional support in terminally ill patients. In addition, the role of the dietitian in feeding the terminally ill individual was researched. A mailed questionnaire was sent to 414 registered dietitians employed by the Marriott Corporation with at least one year of …
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The Ethically Required Level of Mental Capacity Needed for Consent to Participate in Clinical Research on the Terminally Ill
… field where clinical trials are done with terminally ill human subjects. However, analyzing competence is crucial for the protection of subjects’ autonomy. If informed consent is to be truly considered an expression of autonomous action, then it is necessary that the decision-maker be …
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A study of pastoral care to the terminally ill in a multi-cultural context with specific reference to India
… ministry, especially their ministry to the terminally ill, to members of their own denomination or religion. India is notoriously rich in its variety of religious traditions and, as we will see, there is a universal Indianness which seems to stamp itself upon even the representatives of the …
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Knowing the patient well: learning disability nurses’ experiences of caring for terminally ill people with profound learning disabilities in residential care settings
… examines how learning disability nurses care for terminally ill people with profound learning disabilities in two National Health Service residential homes. The aim of the study is to explore the perceived knowledge and skills of this group of nurses. It concerns how they assess, recognise and …
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The effectiveness of music therapy involving family members of terminally ill patients in hospice on quality of life of the patient and stress levels of family members
Thesis (M.Mus.)--Michigan State University. Department of Music Therapy, 2007
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PERCEIVED PREPAREDNESS OF CALIFORNIA SOCIAL WORKERS TO DISCUSS PHYSICIAN ASSISTED DEATH
<p>Effective June 9, 2016, many terminally ill patients residing in the State of California will now have the legal option of terminating their life because of protections offered under The California End of Life Options Act. Social workers whose population of care includes terminally ill patients …
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Hospice Care in Malaysia: Knowledge, Attitude and Time of Discussion
… 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 number of …
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Effects of a Combined Didactic and Experiential Death Education/Empathy Training Program on Death Anxiety and Empathic Ability of Medical Students
… may lessen and their empathic interpersonal skills increase with formal academic preparation This study examined the effects of a death education course which included empathic communication skills training specifically related to interaction with the terminally ill patient. Procedures. The …
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Healthy death readiness: development of a measurement instrument
… The MRDI was then administered to a sample of 31 terminally ill individuals, their care givers and primary nurses, drawn from larger, urban, hospice populations in three geographic areas of the United States. The MRDI was also administered to a contrast group of 39 cardiac impaired individuals who …
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FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTH EDUCATION SPECIALISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS PROVIDING END-OF-LIFE EDUCATION
… Education, presented on June 2, 2017 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale TITLE: FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTH EDUCATION SPECIALISTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS PROVIDING END-OF-LIFE EDUCATION MAJOR PROFESSORS: Dr. Aaron Diehr and Dr. Roberta Ogletree End-of-life decisions are often difficult to …
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The dream in terminal illness : a Jungian case study
… concerns more manifest than in the care of the terminally ill. The present study, undertaken from a Jungian perspective, purports that nocturnal dream material affords a unique opportunity to explore and elucidate the psychological meaning and implications of death - to determine, in short, what …
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BELIEFS ABOUT HOSPICE CARE AMONG HELPING PROFESSIONALS
… trying to provide extraordinary service to the terminally ill.</p> <p>Hospice regards dying as a conventional progression, and neither hastens nor defers death. Hospice health care professions are essential in providing care. This thesis uses a qualitative method and examined beliefs about …
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Suicide
A woman, who believes she is terminally ill, hires a man to kill her, believing that's the only way for her to escape a drawn-out, painful death while still allowing her husband to collect on life insurance. But soon after hiring the man, she realizes she's not dying, that she's been set-up.
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