The role of the nurse as advocate in ethically difficult care situations with dying patients. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing 2006;8:259-269.McSteen, K.; Peden-McAlpine, C. 2006. ‘The role of the nurse as advocate in ethically difficult care situations with dying patients’. ...
nurse–patient contact is presently limited, as is patient contact with other professionals; • patients appreciate ‘humane’ qualities in staff (especially nurses); • life on the ward is perceived by patients to be both boring and unsafe; and ...
Results After adjusting for patient and hospital characteristics (size, teaching status, and technology), each additional patient per nurse was associated with a 7% (odds ratio [OR], 1.07; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.03-1.12) increase in the likelihood of dying within 30 days of admission...
Results After adjusting for patient and hospital characteristics (size, teaching status, and technology), each additional patient per nurse was associated with a 7% (odds ratio [OR], 1.07; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.03-1.12) increase in the likelihood of dying within 30 days of admission...
Results: After adjusting for patient and hospital characteristics (size, teaching status, and technology), each additional patient per nurse was associated with a 7% (odds ratio [OR], 1.07; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.03-1.12) increase in the likelihood of dying within 30 days of ...
Patients and families need to know the patient is approaching the dying phase, yet evidence suggests breaking bad news about the patient's transition to dying rarely happens. District Nurses spend a lot of time with patients and families during the dying phase and are ideally placed to recognise...
Nurse-patient relationshipPalliative careTeamNurses’ storiesGate-keepingNurses inability to articulate many aspects of their work leads to its invisibility, a problem compounded in home-based palliative care where the nurses work is rarely seen by others. A staff development exercise was undertaken ...
help with the well-child and well-adult care of many people. In times of illness, patients count on nurses to provide life-saving medical care. Nurses are also with patients and their families at the time of death, providing care to the dying patient and emotional support to grieving ...
"What Is Right for Me, Is Not Necessarily Right for You": The Endogenous Factors Influencing Nonparticipation in Medical Assistance in Dying Access to medical assistance in dying (MAID) is influenced by legislation, health care providers (HCPs), the number of patient requests, and the patients'...
The nurse-patient relationship, family caregiver needs, communication, and experience of dying in end-of-life/hospice care were examined. Common themes that emerged included the similarities between the nurse-patient relationship and communication, the effectiveness of using a team approach in ...