The ruling will provide training for nurses to teach them how to have difficult conversations with end-of-life patients about their preferences for dying. The article notes that assisted suicide is still illegal and also discusses proposals to legalize the practice.Dean...
Nurses adapt the bedside care environment to meet the patient’s psychosocial and spiritual needs at the end of life, while supporting the family to be close to the patient and assisting them after the patient has died. The need for preparation and training, emotional support and team learning...
Kubb herself didn’t plan to go into working with long-term care and seniors. She started her career studying for the other end of life – training in a neonatal ICU, working with prematurely born infants, or babies with serious medical issues. But losing children was difficult for her. “...
More than half the complaints received by the UK National Health Service (NHS) concern end-of-life care, with an emphasis on spiritual matters. Much has been written on the spiritual needs of the dying, but many doctors and nurses still find this a difficult area to approach. They lack ...
Engaging in end-of-life discussions is a major source of anxiety for doctors in training. The authors propose the use of a decision-making model to assist trainees and their clinical supervisors in such situations. Divided into' 'patient-centred' and 'physician-centred' components, the model en...
Nurse education End-of-life care Simulation Randomized controlled trial Standardized patients Nursing students 1. Introduction Nurses spend more time with patients at the end-of-life (EOL) than any other health care professionals (Foley and Glband, 2003; Wallance et al., 2009). They play an im...
The Doulagivers Training Programcreated by Suzanne B. O’Brien RN has been awarded “Worldwide Leader in Healthcare”byThe International Nurses Association.It is our mission to offer this training for free/donation globally to help foster education and support for End of Life Care worldwide. ...
The shift to non-emergent end of life care focused on patient comfort and the minimisation of invasive therapies, contradicts the emergency nurses’ conventional training on aggressive resuscitation measures [13]. Despite these barriers, the emergency department has become a pivotal location where ...
Communication between physicians and nurses as a target for improving end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: Challenges and opportunities for moving ... KA Puntillo,JL Mcadam - 《Critical Care Medicine》 被引量: 243发表: 2006年 Providing a "good death": Critical care nurses' suggestions...
We aimed to assess (1) the use of sedatives generally and “sedatives with continuous effect,” based on objective operational criteria, within the last week of life in nursing homes and (2) factors associated with this treatment. Design Retrospective cohort study, using the nursing homes' ...