Relationship with Patients Who Are Near Death Ms. White is being discharged with home hospice after an admission for malignant bowel obstruction. Her physician, Dr. B., has come by on rounds and has finished answering her questions. He is finishing up his encounter: “Well, it sounds like everything is ready for you at home, and I’m glad you’re feeling better. You’ll be in good hands with hospic...

Shortly before his death in 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a cancer patient at Massachusetts General Hospital, founded the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center. The Schwartz Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing compassionate health care delivery, which provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers, and sustenance to the healing process. The center sponsors the Schwa...

BACKGROUND Losing a loved one in the intensive care unit (ICU) is stressful for family members. Providing bereavement support to them is recommended. However, little is known about the prevalence of bereavement services implemented in adult ICUs. OBJECTIVE To describe current bereavement follow-up services in adult ICUs. METHOD A cross-sectional prospective study design was used. ICU nurse ...

Purpose of the study: This study aims to highlight how death serves as a central feature social ties among natives Northern Punjab. Death is great leveller and one most curious aspects human cognition. Bereavement follows terminal rites de passage; transition deceased from this world other world.
 Methodology: By using an inductive approach, ethnographic account significant rite was gather...

BACKGROUND Over half a million people die in Britain each year and, on average, a GP will have 20 patients die annually. Bereavement is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, but the research evidence on which GPs and district nurses can base their practice is limited. AIM To review the existing literature concerning how GPs and district nurses think they should care for patient...

On Sunday, April 12, 2009, Steven A. Huesing passed away. Since 1997 Steven Huesing was Executive Director of IMIA the International Medical Informatics Association [1]. In this prominent role he provided for many years signif icant and global contributions to the progress of our f ield. It was through his tireless work that IMIA has developed into the leading international association that it ...