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The experiences of hospice patients and the music therapy clinician in hospice care
… phenomenological inquiry into the experiences of hospice patients and music therapy clinician in end of life care. Three total participants were included in this study, two hospice patients and the music therapy clinician. Interventions included singing familiar songs, music for relaxation and …
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Exploring the Associations of Comfort, Relatedness States, and Life-Closure in Hospice Patients
… & Bouwsema, 1993). A convenience sample of 30 hospice participants completed the Hospice Comfort Questionnaire, Verbal Rating Comfort Scale, two Relatedness States Visual Analog Scales, the Life-Closure Scale and two exploratory questions concerning family interaction activities. Data were …
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A quantitative and qualitative audit evaluation of a provincial hospital service for hospice patients
Hospice-in-the-West is situated in Krugersdorp on the West Rand. There is no hospice dispensary and the patients must, of necessity, obtain their terminal care medications from the Yusuf Daddoo Provincial Hospital. The hospital has a policy protocol in place that must be followed by all patients …
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The Emotional And Spiritual Wellbeing Of Hospice Patients In Botswana And Sources Of Distress For Their Caregivers
… Botswana, in order to inform current and limited hospice resources and services. Design: This study employed a qualitative design. Setting/Subjects: Twenty-eight primary caregivers who cared for an adult who passed away fewer than 14 months prior to the interview date and were in the care of a …
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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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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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The nutrition and hydration of older adult cancer patients in hospice
… of nutrition and hydration for terminally ill patients is a controversial topic, involving medical, legal, social, and ethical issues. Often, the patient who is dying in the hospital and ceases to eat and drink receives tube feeding. In contrast, hospice patients are usually not given tube …
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Husband's and Daughter's Role Strain During Breast Cancer Hospice Patient Caregiving and Bereavement Adjustment
… experience of those providing care to dementia patients. This study tests these competing models of bereavement adjustment for husband and daughter caregivers of breast cancer hospice patients. For husbands, greater psychological strain and health strain were predictive of greater difficulty …
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A study to explore factors that influence family caregivers of patients receiving palliative care from Island Hospice to seek help at emergency unit in Harare, Zimbabwe
… the factors that influence family caregivers of patients receiving palliative care from Island Hospice to seek help at emergency unit. The study was conducted at Island Hospice Service in Harare, Zimbabwe where Palliative care has been practiced in Zimbabwe since 1979 mainly using the home-based …
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Hospice professionals' experiences with patients : a qualitative study of suicide and hastened death in Washington State
… illness. There are some individuals receiving hospice services that also die by suicide without legal lethal means. Little is known, however, about deaths that are identified as suicide by professionals working with hospice patients in home settings in areas where medical aid in dying is …
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Creating An Integrated Opioid Policy For Multi-State Hospice Practices: Improving Opioid Compliance And Patient Safety
… (EOL) symptom management is the cornerstone of hospice care. Hospice patients, especially advanced cancer patients, have an increased need for pain and symptom management towards end of life. For those patients at EOL, opioids are the mainstay treatment to relieve intractable and breakthrough …
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Pharmacotherapy in older people receiving palliative care in hospice settings: prescribing, deprescribing and medicines optimisation
Multimorbidity is common in older patients. Consequently, polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) are prevalent and increase toward the end of life (EOL). One potential solution is deprescribing, a supervised discontinuation of inappropriate medicines. The overall aim of this …
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Dyspnea: Effect of Auricular Acupressure in End Stage Lung Cancer Patients, a Pilot Feasibility Study
… symptom, common in advanced lung cancer patients, and poorly controlled. The National Institutes of Health has promoted the need for research regarding end of life care symptom control. Purpose: Conduct a feasibility study evaluating auricular acupressure effects on dyspnea in hospice …
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HOSPICE PATIENT'S PERCEPTION OF FAMILY SUPPORT
… and quantitative study focused on exploring hospice patient’s perceptions of family support. Family support was conceptualized as which family member they expect to receive support from, types of support provided, frequency of support, family communication about medical illness, and type of …