Transition to End-of-Life Care in End-stage Liver Disease
Learn the finer points of symptom management in end-stage liver disease.
Category : hospice care : Health & Medical
Hospice Care Planning: An Interdisciplinary Roadmap
This article describes an effort to streamline various forms that hospice programs may use to document care.
Regulations and Implications for Effective Pain Management at End-of-Life
The restrictions placed on APN prescribing of controlled substances suggest a potentially negative impact on the management of pain and other symptoms in patients at the end-of-life.
Cancer-Related Distress in Patients With Hematologic Malignancy
Patients with high levels of cancer-related distress may become disabled with depression, anxiety, isolation, panic, and spiritual crisis. How can the heavy load be lightened?
'Nurse, I Can't Sleep!'
Insomnia is a prevalent problem among patients with cancer. Can you boost their sleep IQ?
Ethical Issues Experienced by Hospice and Palliative Nurses
Find out about barriers that keep nurses from resolving ethical dillemas in hospice and palliative care.
Managing the Effects of Cardiac Cachexia
Learn more about the vicious cycle of cancer cachexia -- in cardiac disease.
The Continuing Challenge of Assisted Death
How should the nurse respond when a patient requests aid in dying?
Health Care Utilization in Palliative Care Clinic
A primary palliative care clinic may be a boon to both patients and overloaded emergency rooms. Find out why.
Transition to End-of-Life Care in End-stage Liver Disease
Learn the finer points of symptom management in end-stage liver disease.
Primary Caregivers Communicate About Death With Children
How do caregivers balance competing desires to both protect and prepare children -- for death?
Managing the Effects of Cardiac Cachexia
Learn more about the vicious cycle of cancer cachexia -- in cardiac disease.
Bioethical Issues Related to Limiting Therapy
Even when the decision to limit life-sustaining therapy is ethically appropriate and clear, there can be issues. What are they?
Pilot of Online Introduction to Palliative Care for Nurses
Find out new ways to address hospitals' deficiencies in end-of-life care -- with an online palliative care quiz.
Transition to End-of-Life Care in End-stage Liver Disease
Learn the finer points of symptom management in end-stage liver disease.
Effect of Personality on Palliative Care Staff Stress Levels
What personality type is more prone to burnout when it comes to palliative care?
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.
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.
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.
Family Perceptions of Interventions During End-of-Life Care
What kind of support do family members and friends think they need when a loved one is dying?