Background: Palliative care exists in diverse healthcare settings. Nurses play a crucial role
in its provision. Different levels of palliative care provision and education have been …

BACKGROUND: Approximately 6% of the US population suffer from a serious mental illness
(SMI). People with SMI reportedly die 20 to 25 years earlier than the general population …

Background Palliative care for people with dementia is often sub-optimal. This is partly
because of the challenging nature of dementia itself, and partly because of system failings …

Tiivistelmä Tutkimuksen päätarkoituksena oli kuvata sairaanhoitajan osaamista palliatiivisen
hoidon eri tasoilla ja selvittää sairaanhoitajaopiskelijoiden näkemyksiä palliatiivisen …

Dementia accounts for one in three deaths among people aged 65 and over, but end-of-life
care for people with dementia is often sub-optimal. Palliative care for people with dementia …

Afterward, I began to contemplate how nurses could improve the quality of life for psychiatric
patients with terminal illnesses like Manny. This article discusses ways that nurses can …

The completed suicide of a patient represents a critical event for any nurse who was in
charge of or had some contact with the individual or their family. Nurses may blame …

Aim: This study aims at testing registered nurses' knowledge while working at mental health
facilities and general care hospitals, through an exploratory non-experimental study using a …

The purpose of this study is to examine how demographics; bereavement education;
personal death anxiety; and frequency of interaction with death and dying; impact the level …

Severe and persistent mental illnesses affect approximately 5% of the United States
population and refer to chronic and debilitating psychiatric disorders. This category of …