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- Title
How Can Nurses Can Help Patients Understand End-of-Life Options?
- Authors
Dahlin, Constance; Pirschel, Chris
- Abstract
The article informs that it is necessary to provide the highest quality of care and education to end-of-life patients and their family members in oncology nursing. Topics including the contribution of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) in the spectrum of end of life care; role of nurses in the layers of spiritual, psychological, social, and emotional dimensions of care of the patient; and reasons for distress and elimination of it by hospice or palliative care team.
- Subjects
ASSISTED suicide; NURSE-patient relationships; NURSES; NURSING ethics; PALLIATIVE treatment; PSYCHOLOGY of the terminally ill; OCCUPATIONAL roles; PATIENT-centered care; HOSPICE &; Palliative Nurses Association
- Publication
ONS Voice, 2018, Vol 33, Issue 7, p15
- ISSN
2475-6938
- Publication type
Article