The Electronic Medical Record Can Be Used to Measure Palliative Care Team Impact on Pain Scores

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles von Gunten
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Medical Record ◽  
Electronic Medical Record ◽  
Palliative Care Team ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Pain Scores

The approach for development of palliative care team database

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 901-905
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Watanabe ◽  
Miwako Eto ◽  
Keiichi Yamasaki
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Palliative Care Team ◽  
Care Team

Nursing Perspectives: Building an Interprofessional Perinatal Palliative Care Team

NeoReviews ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. e422-e425 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Dean ◽  
K. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Palliative Care Team ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Perinatal Palliative Care

Survival, Mortality, and Location of Death for Patients Seen by a Hospital-Based Palliative Care Team

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 903-911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik K. Fromme ◽  
Paul B. Bascom ◽  
M.D. Smith ◽  
Susan W. Tolle ◽  
Lissi Hanson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Palliative Care Team ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Location Of Death

Collective soul: The spirituality of an interdisciplinary palliative care team

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHANE SINCLAIR ◽  
SHELLEY RAFFIN ◽  
JOSE PEREIRA ◽  
NANCY GUEBERT
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Palliative Care Team ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Spiritual Journeys ◽  
Common Goals

Objective:Although spirituality as it relates to patients is gaining increasing attention, less is known about how health care professionals (HCP) experience spirituality personally or collectively in the workplace. This study explores the collective spirituality of an interdisciplinary palliative care team, by studying how individuals felt about their own spirituality, whether there was a shared sense of a team spirituality, how spirituality related to the care the team provided to patients and whether they felt that they provided spiritual care.Methods:A qualitative autoethnographic approach was used. The study was conducted in a 10-bed Tertiary Palliative Care Unit (TPCU) in a large acute-care referral hospital and cancer center. Interdisciplinary team members of the TPCU were invited to participate in one-to-one interviews and/or focus groups. Five interviews and three focus groups were conducted with a total of 20 participants.Results:Initially participants struggled to define spirituality. Concepts of spirituality relating to integrity, wholeness, meaning, and personal journeying emerged. For many, spirituality is inherently relational. Others acknowledged transcendence as an element of spirituality. Spirituality was described as being wrapped in caring and often manifests in small daily acts of kindness and of love, embedded within routine acts of caring. Palliative care served as a catalyst for team members' own spiritual journeys. For some participants, palliative care represented a spiritual calling. A collective spirituality stemming from common goals, values, and belonging surfaced.Significance of results:This was the first known study that focused specifically on the exploration of a collective spirituality. The culture of palliative care seems to foster spiritual reflection among health care professionals both as individuals and as a whole. While spirituality was difficult to describe, it was a shared experience often tangibly present in the provision of care on all levels.

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