scholarly journals Recognition of Good Death, Attitude towards the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Attitude towards Euthanasia in Nurses

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sook-Nam Kim ◽  
Hyun-Ju Kim
Keyword(s):  
Good Death ◽  
Life Sustaining Treatment

scholarly journals Factors affecting the attitude toward withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment of nurses working at long-term care hospitals

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-392
Author(s):  
Mi Sook Kim
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Care ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Life Sustaining Treatment ◽  
Positive Correlations

Purpose: This study was a descriptive study to identify factors affecting the attitude toward life-sustaining treatment of nurses working at long-term care hospitals. Methods: Data were collected through structured questionnaires from August 2nd to 27th, 2019. Study participants consisted of 163 nurses who were working for at least 6 months from 7 long-term care hospitals in B and K city. Data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe' test, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and hierarchical regression with SPSS WIN v 21.0.Results: There were significantly positive correlations between awareness of good death (r=.46, <i>p</i><.001) and perception of patients’ rights (r=.32, <i>p</i><.001). The factors affecting participants’ attitude toward life-sustaining treatment were awareness of good death (<i>β</i>=.35, <i>p</i><.001) and their own view of death (<i>β</i>=.24, <i>p</i>=.001), which explained about 27.0% of the attitude toward life-sustaining treatment.Conclusion: Based on these results, it is necessary to develop nursing educational materials that can establish values for deaths, and cultivate legal and ethical knowledge related to attitude toward life-sustaining treatment. In addition, since the severity of a patient’s condition varies and the characteristics of the institution vary depending on the type of hospital, a study is needed on the relevance of variables considering the hospital environment.

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.

scholarly journals Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: the necessity of discrepancies in ethical reasoning

Critical Care ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Pochard ◽  
Nancy Kentish-Barnes ◽  
Elie Azoulay
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Life Sustaining Treatment

scholarly journals Honoring Preferences—The Consistency Between End-of-Life Care and a Veteran’s Goal for Comfort Care

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 752-752
Author(s):  
Joan Carpenter ◽  
Winifred Scott ◽  
Mary Ersek ◽  
Cari Levy ◽  
Jennifer Cohen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression ◽  
Comfort Care ◽  
Lower Odds ◽  
Medicare Data ◽  
Life Sustaining Treatment

Abstract This study examined the alignment between Veterans’ end-of-life care and a Life-Sustaining Treatment (LST) goal “to be comfortable.” It includes Veterans with VA inpatient or community living center stays overlapping July 2018--January 2019, with a LST template documented by January 31, 2019, and who died by April 30, 2019 (N = 18,163). Using VA and Medicare data, we found 80% of decedents with a comfort care goal received hospice and 57% a palliative care consult (compared to 57% and 46%, respectively, of decedents without a comfort care goal). Using multivariate logistic regression, a comfort care goal was associated with significantly lower odds of EOL hospital or ICU use. In the last 30 days of life, Veterans with a comfort care goal had 43% lower odds (AOR 0.57; 95% CI: 0.51, 0.64) of hospitalization and 46% lower odds of ICU use (AOR 0.54; 95% CI: 0.48, 0.61).

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