Nurses need a range of skill and competencies to provide high-quality palliative and end-of-life care in different healthcare settings AbstractBecker, R. (2009) Palliative care 2: exploring the skills ...

The role of the community matron was developed to improve standards of care for people with complex long-term conditions. Initial emphasis was to support patients to help take control of their ...

Although early palliative care may not increase quality of life short term, it can help with coping skills in patients with advanced cancers. Opting for early palliative care after receiving a ...

The UAB Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program has been training leaders in palliative care since 2000, making it one of the oldest and most established training programs in the country. To ...

NORTH Queensland residents, Dorothy Oates of Mackay and June Fullerton of Richmond have gained new skills to support palliative cancer patients. Dorothy Oates, an enrolled nurse at Mater Hospital ...

This study compares a robust, culturally-based Palliative Care Tele-consult program to usual hospital care to determine whether a culturally-based Palliative Care Tele-consult program leads to lower ...

A new study has found that patients with incurable, progressive diseases and their family carers in sub-Saharan Africa often do not receive enough information about the patient's disease and its ...

Bortezomib Added to R-CVP Is Safe and Effective for Previously Untreated Advanced-Stage Follicular Lymphoma: A Phase II Study by the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group ...

I was a palliative care nurse long before the discipline was formally identified. I always went out of my way to keep my patients' pain under control and their symptoms effectively addressed. In my ...

L-R: Sarada Lewis, RN, CHPN, Amy Lebolt, MSW, Julie Hirsch, RN, CHPN, Lynn Rapp, RN, CHPN. Not pictured are Lindsay High, RN, CHPN, Lori Leopold, MSW and Juliana ...