Ian Hicken,Tony Butterworth
Ian Hicken
This article reports on a study commissioned by the Department of Health to examine community nursing services for people with HIV disease. Data were gathered on discharge, referral patterns and coordination of services for people with HIV ...
Chris Lloyd-Richards,Colin Rees
Chris Lloyd-Richards
Health carers in the field of palliative care have developed skills in dealing not only with dying people but also with their relatives. The same, however, cannot be said for carers in other clinical areas. How do nursing staff in these oth...
Alun Jones
Alun Jones
This article explores Orem's self-care model in relation to the care of a dying person and his/her family and gives an overview of the model together with illustrations of key concepts. The main recommendation of the article is that Orem's ...
Jeanette Webber
Jeanette Webber
Judging by the content and focus of national and international journals and conference programmes, it would appear that the preoccupation of health professionals with ethical aspects of care has increased dramatically in recent years. Nurse...
Louise de Raeve
Louise de Raeve
This article briefly examines what is meant by a 'good death' and looks in detail at the idea of 'death with dignity' as one such concept. This may be best understood not as a manner of dying, but as a manner of treating those who are dying...
Helping children to grieve [0.03%]
协助儿童度过悲伤期
Breige Devlin
Breige Devlin
The aim of this article is to address the needs of grieving children, who are often excluded from the grieving process. Many adults erroneously believe that children do not grieve or that their grief is milder and of a shorter duration than...
Ethical issues in multicentre collaborative research on breathlessness in lung cancer [0.03%]
多中心协作研究肺癌患者呼吸困难的伦理问题
Christopher Bailey
Christopher Bailey
This article describes, the ethical issues involved in developing a multicentre collaborative research project to evaluate a nurse-led clinic for breathlessness in patients with lung cancer. In this randomized controlled study, the framewor...
Palliative care nursing in a curative environment: an Australian perspective [0.03%]
姑息性护理在以治愈为主的环境中开展——澳大利亚的视角
Deborah Prior,Valda Poulton
Deborah Prior
This article describes the experiences of two nurses who developed palliative care specialty practices in acute general hospitals. The principal goal of, their work was to facilitate a smooth curative-palliative transition for patients, the...
Edward David Cook
Edward David Cook
Paternalism in medicine is giving way to consumerism. When doctors sneeze, nurses catch cold. Consumerism is having an equal affect on nursing. For example, patient autonomy is currently in vogue. A greater emphasis on the needs and wishes ...
Eve Garrard
Eve Garrard
Resources for health care are scarce, and dividing them fairly is both necessary and difficult. Palliative care has a claim on these resources because it is concerned with improving the quality of life of those who are dying. However, some ...