Differences in Performance Status Assessment Among Palliative Care Specialists, Nurses, and Medical Oncologists

Depression in palliative care patients: a survey of assessment and treatment practices of Australian and New Zealand palliative care specialists.

OBJECTIVE To explore the practices of members of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine (ANZSPM) in assessing and treating depression in palliative care patients. METHODS Semistructured questionnaires were forwarded to ANZSPM members in consecutive mail-outs to survey diagnostic and treatment practices for depression. RESULTS The response rate was 62.3%. The median pr...

Nurses’ Knowledge of Palliative Care and Its Related Factors

Introduction: Palliative care is the science of promoting the patient’s quality of life. It can improve the quality of life of a patient, which is effective not only in patient’s late-life but also useful in dealing with a chronic illness over many years. In this regard, nurses, as the largest providers of health care services, play an important role in palliative care. Objective: This study a...

Merging cultures: palliative care specialists in the medical intensive care unit.

We summarize the key interventions and general findings from a 3-yr project titled, "Merging Palliative and Critical Care Cultures in the Medical Intensive Care Unit." This multifaceted demonstration project was designed so palliative care and intensive care clinicians would share their expertise and develop projects that promote end-of-life care in a medical intensive care unit (ICU) setting. ...

More palliative care specialists is not enough.

Nurses' Experiences of Palliative Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Background & purpose: Despite recent advances in infant care technology, a number of infants are at risk in infancy period and need to palliative care. Nurses are responsible for the palliative care of the infants and the families. Therefore, the present study was conducted to explain the Nurses' Experiences of Palliative Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Materials and Methods: This st...