Catherine Walshe
Catherine Walshe
Palliative care, and the nursing care associated with it, includes the time around bereavement. Assessment of whether people are at risk of adverse bereavement consequences or suffer such consequences during their time of grief is important...
Meinir Krishnasamy
Meinir Krishnasamy
This paper offers an insight into the nature and impact of fatigue through the triadic perceptions of patients with advanced cancer, family members or friends, and health care professionals involved with their care. Their views were accesse...
Audrey Griffiths,Kinta Beaver
Audrey Griffiths
Asmall sample of women (n=9) receiving high dose chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer were asked to complete a quality of life measure (QLQ-C30) at three time points: prior to, during and post treatment. Despite the onset of severe side ...
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John Sweeney
John Sweeney
This paper seeks to introduce the resources available via the Internet to improve information and education provision within palliative care. It describes well established online sources and how they may be found, introduces new terms relat...
Megan Rosser
Megan Rosser
Using an action research approach, the author worked with district nurses to enable them to identify their own palliative care education needs and to plan the appropriate education programme, with reflective practice enabling the identifica...
Sanchia Aranda
Sanchia Aranda
Editorials by Jeanette Webber and Libby White (IJPN 2(3)) explored threats to both the nursing profession and palliative nursing as the health system faces the reality of limited resources and expanding client needs. I wish to pick up on th...
Annie Bosch,Alison Ferguson,Bibi Hølge Hazelton et al.
Annie Bosch et al.
During the Ninth International Cancer Nursing Conference held in Brighton last year, an evening symposium was hosted by Alison Ferguson and Jeanette Webber on behalf of the Royal College of Nursing Palliative Nursing Group in the United Kin...
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Mark Donald
Mark Donald
Madam, Thank you for an excellent second edition of the International journal o f Palliative Nursing. I am excited by the development of the journal and eagerly await each edition.
Ann Nash
Ann Nash
This article describes a service development in palliative care which aims to offer practical support and caring skills to patients and their families at home. The concept of home care in the UK distinguishes between health-care and social-...
Joan Bliss,Barbara Johnson
Joan Bliss
This research was undertaken to increase our understanding of cancer patients' perceptions of their needs, and how these changed over time. Sixty five patients with breast, prostate/testes or colorectal cancer were each interviewed at 5 and...