Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) represents a historic change in Canadian society and
the provision of end‐of‐life care. In this descriptive narrative inquiry, 17 nurses were …

Objective Nonphysical suffering is emotional, psychological, existential, spiritual, and/or
social in nature. While palliative care is a discipline dedicated to the prevention and relief of …

Background A majority of people in Western Europe and the USA die in hospitals. Spiritual
and existential care is seen to be an integral component of holistic, compassionate and …

Background: Although out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors' physiological
outcomes have been addressed, less is known on the holistic needs of individuals after …

This article addressed the following questions: How are spirituality, spiritual need, and
spiritual care in aged care defined? What constitutes spiritual care for older people in aged …

A qualitative study was conducted with semi-structured interviews to explore the
experiences of suffering in 20 adult palliative care inpatients of University Malaya Medical …

Objectives: Support from healthcare professionals in a PICU is highly valuable for parents of
dying children. The way they care for the patients and their families affects the parents' initial …

Objectives Life‐threatening diseases such as cancer represent unique traumas—compared
with singular, time‐limited traumatic events—given their multidimensional, uncertain, and …

Existential distress is of clinical concern in patients with terminal illness. Although existential
distress has been used to describe a broad spectrum of psychological disturbances, its …

An extensive search of the academic and 'grey'literature indicated that no guidelines were
available that specifically related to spiritual care for older people living in residential aged …