Directions for Palliative Care Nursing in Canada: Report of a National Survey

This paper reports the results of a national survey of palliative care nurses conducted following a meeting of nurses at the Fifth Canadian Palliative Care Association Conference in 1993. The intent of the survey was to obtain information about Canadian palliative care nurses's perceptions of practice and professional issues. Eighty percent of respondents believed that palliative care nurses should form a palliative care nurses’ organization, with the majority recommending that this occur under the auspices of the Canadian Palliative Care Association. Key issues of importance to palliative care nurses were identified. The two major issues of concern were (a) the need to develop standards of practice and (b) educational needs of palliative care nurses. Respondents also emphasized the importance of maintaining and fostering an interdisciplinary approach to palliative care. Results of this survey are to be further discussed at the Sixth Canadian Palliative Care Association Conference to be held in Halifax in October 1995.

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Psychosocial and Spiritual Issues in Palliative Care

Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Flashcards ◽

10.1093/med/9780190633066.003.0019 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Marvin Omar Delgado Guay ◽

Sriram Yennurajalingam

Keyword(s):

Palliative Care ◽

Significant Role ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Well Being ◽

Complex Interplay ◽

Spiritual Distress ◽

Key Issues ◽

Spiritual Issues ◽

And Control

In patients with serious life-limiting illness, there is a complex interplay of psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual issues. Increasing evidence demonstrates that psychosocial as well as spiritual distress play a significant role in the overall distress in palliative care patients. These also negatively factor in the patient’s well-being and control of symptoms. However, the differentiation between psychosocial and spiritual is often difficult. An interdisciplinary approach is critical so as to alleviate this distress among patients receiving Palliative Care. This chapter reviews the assessment and management of key issues related to psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual issues in patients with serious life-limiting illness.

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Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of depression in advanced disease

10.1093/oso/9780198806677.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Matthew Hotopf

Keyword(s):

Palliative Care ◽

Advanced Disease ◽

Antidepressant Treatment ◽

Population Level ◽

Care Staff ◽

Care Services ◽

Treatment Of Depression ◽

Assessment And Treatment ◽

Palliative Care Services ◽

Key Issues

Depression in palliative care is common, under-recognised and has significant impacts for sufferers. There are effective treatments but often a shortage of staff to provide them. This chapter sets out a number of key issues to consider when assessing and treating individual patients and considers the way in which palliative care services can innovate to provide a population level response to depression. Palliative care staff can be trained to deliver basic depression care and follow simple protocols to initiate, monitor and adjust antidepressant treatment. These approaches have been tested in trials in cancer care but the challenge is to take these approaches from research trials conducted in centres of excellence with good resources, to other settings.

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Knowledge and attitudes of Italian medical oncologists and palliative care physicians toward medical use of cannabis in cancer care: a national survey

Supportive Care in Cancer ◽

10.1007/s00520-021-06383-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Marco Filetti ◽

Dario Trapani ◽

Alessio Cortellini ◽

Vincenza Cofini ◽

Stefano Necozione ◽

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Keyword(s):

Palliative Care ◽

National Survey ◽

Cancer Care ◽

Knowledge And Attitudes ◽

Medical Oncologists

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Audit on discharging patients from community specialist palliative care nursing services

International Journal of Palliative Nursing ◽

10.12968/ijpn.2004.10.1.12016 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 24-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jenny Newbury ◽

Claire A Hatherell

Keyword(s):

Palliative Care ◽

Specialist Palliative Care ◽

Nursing Services ◽

Care Nursing

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Development and Diversity in Palliative Care Nursing

Death Studies ◽

10.1080/07481187.2015.1024551 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 39 (7) ◽

pp. 447-450

Author(s):

Lyndsay Cassidy

Keyword(s):

Palliative Care ◽

Care Nursing

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Weaving Interdisciplinary and Discipline-Specific Content into Palliative Care Education: One Successful Model for Teaching End-of-Life Care

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.2190/om.67.1-2.x ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 67 (1-2) ◽

pp. 201-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Katherine P. Supiano

Keyword(s):

Palliative Care ◽

Learning Outcomes ◽

End Of Life Care ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Specific Knowledge ◽

Specific Content ◽

Successful Model ◽

Palliative Care Education ◽

Complex Patients ◽

Essential Contribution

While palliative care is best delivered in an interdisciplinary format, courses teaching the interdisciplinary approach to palliative care are rare in healthcare education. This article describes a graduate-level course in palliative care for students in nursing, pharmacy, social work, and gerontology taught by faculty from each discipline. The overarching goals of this course are to convey core palliative care knowledge across disciplines, articulate the essential contribution of each discipline in collaborative care, and to define interdisciplinary processes learners need to understand and navigate interdisciplinary palliative care. Learning outcomes included increased knowledge in palliative care, enhanced attitudes in practice and application of skills to clinical practice settings, increased ability to contribute discipline-specific knowledge to their teams' discussions, and a sense of increasing confidence in participating in the care of complex patients, communicating with families, and contributing to the team as a member of their own discipline.

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Australian University Approaches to Indigenous Policy

The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education ◽

10.1375/s1326011100000430 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 37 (S1) ◽

pp. 103-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Andrew Gunstone

Keyword(s):

Student Success ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Representative Sample ◽

Student Support ◽

Educational Needs ◽

Research Culture ◽

Indigenous Policy ◽

Key Issues ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

Australian Universities

Abstract In this paper, I discuss several key issues – governance, employment, research, culture, anti-racism policies, curriculum, student support and student success – that are critically important in enabling universities to meet the educational needs of Indigenous peoples. I also analyse a representative sample of Australian universities and argue that Australian universities have generally failed to adequately address these key issues. Further, I compare this study to a similar study that I conducted in 2000 and analyse any similarities and differences between the two studies.

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What Patients Know About Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and What They Would Like to Know. National Survey on Patient Educational Needs in IBS and Development and Validation of the Patient Educational Needs Questionnaire (PEQ)

The American Journal of Gastroenterology ◽

10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01254.x ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 102 (9) ◽

pp. 1972-1982 ◽

Cited By ~ 120

Author(s):

Albena Halpert ◽

Christine B. Dalton ◽

Olafur Palsson ◽

Carolyn Morris ◽

Yuming Hu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Irritable Bowel Syndrome ◽

National Survey ◽

Educational Needs ◽

Irritable Bowel ◽

Development And Validation

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Japanese physicians’ experiences of terminally ill patients voluntarily stopping eating and drinking: a national survey

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care ◽

10.1136/bmjspcare-2017-001426 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 143-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Takuya Shinjo ◽

Tatsuya Morita ◽

Daisuke Kiuchi ◽

Masayuki Ikenaga ◽

Hirofumi Abo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Palliative Care ◽

National Survey ◽

Clinical Setting ◽

Deep Sedation ◽

Terminally Ill ◽

Treatment Decision ◽

Mail Questionnaire ◽

Terminally Ill Patients ◽

Continuous Deep Sedation

ObjectivesVoluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) could be regarded as a patients’ own non-treatment decision that hastens death, which involves patients voluntarily forgoing food and liquid until death. The aims of this study were to investigate the experience of home hospice physicians and palliative care specialists who care for patients during VSED in Japan, and their opinions on continuous deep sedation (CDS) as a means to relieve patient symptoms during VSED.Methods219 home hospice physicians and 695 palliative care specialists across Japan were surveyed by mail questionnaire in 2016.ResultsA total of 571 (62%) responses were analysed. A total of 185 (32%) had experience of patients who selected VSED. In response to questions about CDS to provide relief to patients during VSED, the number of physicians who replied that CDS was acceptable was 88 (15%).ConclusionsIn Japan, 32% of physicians surveyed replied that they had experience of caring for patients during VSED in a clinical setting and 15% considered CDS acceptable.

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