Difficulties in Managing Pain at the End of Life
When caring for a dying patient whose severe pain cannot be relieved, clinicians are faced with a critical clinical challenge.
Category : hospice care : Health & Medical
Hospice Care for Patients Who Choose to Hasten Death
What's the clinician's role when patients want to speed up death by not eating or drinking?
Caregiver Strain and Symptom Distress Among Cancer Survivors
Find out how African American cancer survivors and their caregivers cope with disease related stresses and strains.
Assessment and Management of Cancer-Related Fatigue
What can be done to reduce fatigue in patients with cancer who are receiving chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy?
Primary Caregivers Communicate About Death With Children
How do caregivers balance competing desires to both protect and prepare children -- for death?
Effect of Personality on Palliative Care Staff Stress Levels
What personality type is more prone to burnout when it comes to palliative care?
Barriers in Hospice Use Among African Americans With Cancer
What's keeping African Americans from accessing more palliative care?
End-of-Life Needs of Patients Who Practice Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism is a rapidly growing religious tradition and one that requires specific care planning at the end of life.
The Prodrome to Delirium
Gain insight regarding early signs and symptoms of emerging delirium and root causes that may be reversible.
Conflicts in Goals of Care at the End of Life
Learn how to meet patients where they are and take them where they want to go. . .
Hospice Care for Patients Who Choose to Hasten Death
What's the clinician's role when patients want to speed up death by not eating or drinking?
Weaving Palliative Care Into the Tapestry of Pediatrics
Read about development of a highly successful pediatric palliative care program that was established initially with nursing staff at relatively low cost.
Managing the Effects of Cardiac Cachexia
Learn more about the vicious cycle of cancer cachexia -- in cardiac disease.
Ethical Dilemmas in the Intensive Care Unit
Ethics and palliative care consultants are being called upon to assist with frequently encountered ethical and moral dilemmas. Learn more from case studies.
Effect of Personality on Palliative Care Staff Stress Levels
What personality type is more prone to burnout when it comes to palliative care?
Managing the Effects of Cardiac Cachexia
Learn more about the vicious cycle of cancer cachexia -- in cardiac disease.
Ethical Issues Experienced by Hospice and Palliative Nurses
Find out about barriers that keep nurses from resolving ethical dillemas in hospice and palliative care.
Caring and Coping: How Nurses Manage Workplace Stress
Recruitment and retention of hospice nurses have been a challenge in the last decade due, in part, to workplace stress. Find out ways to stress less.
Barriers in Hospice Use Among African Americans With Cancer
What's keeping African Americans from accessing more palliative care?
Transition to End-of-Life Care in End-stage Liver Disease
Learn the finer points of symptom management in end-stage liver disease.