Essays on Palliative Care

Chronic illness remains a major public health challenge in today's health-care system. Most of individuals with chronic health sickness spend the last moments of life in and out of the hospital setting with half of those who die do so in the acute health care settings. The individual, caregivers, and...

Hospice Nursing Hospice nursing entails working with terminally ill patients to provide them with the essential support and quality in their final days; rather than focusing on the healing process, these nurses focus on providing quality healthcare to patients who are already on their deathbeds. Hospice Nurses work at hospice facilities...

J. I. MacArtney, A. Broom, E. Kirby, P. Good, and J. Wootton (2017). The parallax and the liminal. The Journal of Qualitative Health Research, 27(5), 623-633. According to MacArtney, Broom, Kirby, Good, and Wootton (2017), changes in palliative care may imply a shift in mindset from one of life-prolongation to one...

Karen S Thacker's Work Karen S Thacker's work "Nurses' Advocacy Behaviours in End-of-Life Care" is a comparative and descriptive investigation aimed at addressing the insights of palliative care nurses and their advocacy behaviors during end-of-life care. The research issue at hand is the difficulty that nurses experience while attempting to advocate...

What is palliative care? Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to medical care that focuses on optimizing quality of life and reducing suffering. Typically, it is provided for people suffering from terminal illnesses. Various definitions of palliative care are available in published literature, including the following. Here are some highlights of...