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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"hospice nurses"”.
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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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Hospice Cancer Patients' and Hospice Nurses' Reported Barriers to Management of Pain
One of the goals of hospice is to provide management of cancer pain. In order to achieve the above goal, barriers to pain management must be recognized and overcome. Barriers to pain management include fatalism, fear of addiction, fear of side effects from analgesics, fear of the disease …
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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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Hospice Nurses Knowledge, Attitudes, and Reported Confidence in End-of-Life Story Telling and Perceptions of the Dying Experience: Intervention Study
… as a part of living, is a subjective experience. Hospice Nurses provide compassionate care for the dying. Utilizing a quasi-experimental single group repeated measures design, the researcher examined the relationship between an end-of-life story telling class and subsequent nurse’s knowledge, …
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Healthy death readiness: development of a measurement instrument
… patients drawn from a small suburban outpatient hospice. The MRDI was concurrently administered to dying individuals, their primary care givers, and their primary hospice nurses. Correlations between dying individuals' scores and their primary care giver estimates of patient death readiness, and …
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A comparative study of hospice vs nonhospice nurses' attitudes toward death and dying and level of death anxiety
… purpose of this descriptive survey was to assess nurses' attitudes toward death and dying and level of death anxiety. Sixty nine nurses from nonhospice and hospice settings were surveyed. Findings indicated the hospice nurses had a more positive attitude toward death and dying and lower level of …
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Nurses' Perception of the effects of Companion Pets in Hospice Settings
… or visiting pets on the symptom management of hospice patients. Nine in-depth interviews of hospice nurses were conducted and some field notes were taken during data collection. Data analysis was accomplished according to Van Manen’s Selective Approach (Polit & Beck, 2004), where the researcher …
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Improving Nurses' Proficiency and Confidence in the Use of Aromatherapy for Patients in the Hospice Setting
… healthcare system. Recognizing that patients in hospice require specialized care to address the physical, emotional and spiritual needs that are associated with a terminal illness, the focus of this project is to improve the hospice nurses’ knowledge of and confidence in the use of aromatherapy …
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Proactive Prescribing Enhancing Hospice Care Through Anticipatory Pharmacy Practices
… pamphlet as a teaching tool. Background: Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life for individuals with terminal illnesses. However, inadequate symptom management, caregiver burden, and frequent hospitalizations remain persistent barriers to effective hospice delivery (Virdun et …