Aims and objectives To explore how nurses, across various health systems, describe their
role in providing palliative care for patients with life‐threatening illnesses. Background …

Background: The majority of expected deaths occur in hospitals where optimal end-of-life
care is not yet fully realised, as evidenced by recent reviews outlining experience of care …

Highlights•We found this mindfulness intervention feasible for our sample of critical care
nurses.•Stress significantly decreased from baseline to follow-up across all nurses.•Findings …

Background: Despite most expected deaths occurring in hospital, optimal end-of-life care is
not available for all in this setting. Aim: To gain a richer and deeper understanding of …

Background This paper focuses on communication between hospital staff and family carers
of patients dying on acute hospital wards, with an emphasis on the family carers' …

Approximately 90% of the UK population spend some time in hospital in their final year of
life, and more than half of the population die in hospital. This review aims to explore the …

Introduction: Improving end of life care is a national imperative. Unsatisfactory care persists
particularly in acute hospitals, with shortcomings, variability in communication and advance …

Issues in Aging combines social, psychological, biological, and philosophical perspectives
to present a multifaceted picture of aging. Novak illustrates both the problems and the …

Background: The number of deaths occurring in hospitals is rising, and many occur in
settings other than specialist palliative care, oncology or critical care. Nurses working …

Aim: Our review evaluated both the effects of single-occupancy patient rooms (SPRs) on
patient outcomes for hospitalized adults and user opinion related to SPRs. Background: In …