Preventing hospitalization: home hospice nurses, caregivers, and shifting notions of the good death

2004 ◽  
pp. 207-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Leich
Keyword(s):  
Good Death ◽  
Hospice Nurses

Threats to the good death: the cultural context of stress and coping among hospice nurses.

1995 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverley McNamara ◽  
Charles Waddell ◽  
Margaret Colvin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Hospice Nurses ◽  
And Coping

A good death

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith L Hold
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Hospice Nurses ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Purposeful Sampling ◽  
Ethical Conflicts

Background: On a day to day basis, nurses are facing more ethical dilemmas during end-of-life care resulting in not being able to actualize a good death for patients. Research objective: The purpose of this study was to explore how experienced hospice nurses resolve day to day ethical dilemmas during end-of-life care. Research design: The study used a qualitative narrative approach. Participants: Through purposeful sampling, a total of six experienced hospice nurse participated. Ethical considerations: Approval from the researcher’s university Institutional Review Board for ethical review was obtained. Findings: Using core story creation, several different ethical dilemmas were identified divulging struggles with key stakeholders including family members and providers. Thematic analysis generated three main themes: Ethics within Practice, Ethical Knowledge, and Ethical Solutions. Discussion: The participants told their stories depicting a keen awareness of ethical conflicts situated by contextual factors including social, political, and personal issues. The nurses’ deliberations were informed through formal, experiential, and intuitive knowledge. Ethical predicaments were resolved by either following rules or choosing acts of resistance. Conclusion: A better understanding was obtained on how experienced hospice nurses successfully resolve ethical dilemmas culminating in better deaths for patients.

Social support needs: Discordance between home hospice nurses and former family caregivers

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maija Reblin ◽  
Kristin Cloyes ◽  
Joan Carpenter ◽  
Pat Berry ◽  
Margaret Clayton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Hospice Nurses

THE GOOD DEATH AND THE MODERN NOVEL

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Durie
Keyword(s):  
Good Death ◽  
Modern Novel

Funerary Ritual

2019 ◽  
pp. 292-309
Author(s):  
Mireia López-Bertran
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Deceased Person ◽  
Funerary Rituals ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Funerary Rites ◽  
Written Sources

This chapter explores the funerary rites in the Phoenician-Punic world from a comprehensive point of view, and it focuses on the common points arising from a large amount of data. The concern for burying their deceased and the belief in the soul’s afterlife show that the Phoenicians considered death as a transformation rather than as the end of a person’s life. Through our access to archaeological remains and written sources, we can reconstruct the existence of a meaningful burial program that was destined to provide a “good death” and afterlife. Funerary rituals, thus, are the actions or gestures to achieve this goal. The aim of this chapter is to explain the rites that family members undertook once someone died, in order to transform correctly the deceased person into an otherworldly being, the ancestor. The social implications of the data arising from burials are also briefly considered.

A Profile of the Michigan Hospice Nursing Association

1990 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Author(s):  
Carol S. Munsell
Keyword(s):  
Stress Management ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Hospice Nurses ◽  
Home Setting ◽  
Recruitment And Retention

This article describes the early planning and development of the Michigan Hospice Nursing Association. It discusses the growth ofthe organizationfrom the beginning in 1985 to the present time, including the association's objectives, philosophy, and standing committees. Specific issues affecting hospice nurses are recruitment and retention, stress management, benefits, the need for continuingeducation, and the implications of high-tech care in the home setting.

scholarly journals To hydrate or not to hydrate? The effect of hydration on survival, symptoms and quality of dying among terminally ill cancer patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien-Yi Wu ◽  
Ping-Jen Chen ◽  
Tzu-Lin Ho ◽  
Wen-Yuan Lin ◽  
Shao-Yi Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Proportional Hazards Model ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Artificial Nutrition ◽  
Symptom Improvement ◽  
Terminally Ill Cancer Patients ◽  
Quality Of Dying

Abstract Background Artificial nutrition and hydration do not prolong survival or improve clinical symptoms of terminally ill cancer patients. Nonetheless, little is known about the effect of artificial hydration (AH) alone on patients’ survival, symptoms or quality of dying. This study explored the relationship between AH and survival, symptoms and quality of dying among terminally ill cancer patients. Methods A pilot prospective, observational study was conducted in the palliative care units of three tertiary hospitals in Taiwan between October 2016 and December 2017. A total of 100 patients were included and classified into the hydration and non-hydration group using 400 mL of fluid per day as the cut-off point. The quality of dying was measured by the Good Death Scale (GDS). Multivariate analyses using Cox’s proportional hazards model were used to assess the survival status of patients, the Wilcoxon rank-sum test for within-group analyses and the Mann-Whitney U test for between-groups analyses to evaluate changes in symptoms between day 0 and 7 in both groups. Logistic regression analysis was used to assess the predictors of a good death. Results There were no differences in survival (p = 0.337) or symptom improvement between the hydration and non-hydration group, however, patients with AH had higher GDS scores. Conclusions AH did not prolong survival nor significantly improve dehydration symptoms of terminally ill cancer patients but it may influence the quality of dying. Communication with patients and their families on the effect of AH may help them better prepared for the end-of-life experience.

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