Attitude to Death
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Nursing, religiosity, and end-of-life care: interconnections and implications.

29 Nov 2009 The influence of religious beliefs and practices at the end of life is underinvestigated. Given nursing's advocacy role and the intimate and personal nature of the dimensions of religiosity and the end of life, exploring the multidimensional ... Read more...

Supporting children of parents who are dying.

29 Nov 2009 Nurses, parents and other family members tend to feel ill equipped when talking to children about a parent's impending death. Adults often feel the need to protect children from the reality of a parent's imminent death. However, research indicates ... Read more...

Iranian nurses' preparation for loss: finding a balance in end-of-life care.

10 Nov 2009 AIM: To explore the nurse-patient interaction in terminally ill situations in acute care, focusing on the nurses' preparation for loss. BACKGROUND: Caring for dying patients can be a distressing and sometimes even threatening experience for nurses. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Attitude to Death'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Nursing, religiosity, and end-of-life care: interconnections and implications. 29 Nov 2009
• Supporting children of parents who are dying. 29 Nov 2009
• Iranian nurses' preparation for loss: finding a balance in end-of-life care. 10 Nov 2009
• A national survey of support and counselling after maternal death. 30 Oct 2009
• The study of personal constructs of death and fear of death among Taiwanese adolescents. 30 Oct 2009
• Influences of religion and culture on continuing bonds in a sample of British Muslims of Pakistani origin. 30 Oct 2009
• A piece of my mind. A gift of time. 26 Oct 2009
• When a patient chooses death: divided attitudes. 29 Sep 2009
• Trends and determinants of end-of-life practices in ALS in the Netherlands. 20 Sep 2009
• The case for killing granny. Rethinking end-of-life care. 19 Sep 2009
• I was a teenage death panelist. 19 Sep 2009
• A piece of my mind. Driving thoughts. 14 Sep 2009
• [The "death tribunal" of Sarah Palin] 7 Sep 2009
• The need for hospital-based neonatal palliative care programs in Saudi Arabia. 30 Aug 2009
• The "big picture": communicating with families about end-of-life care in intensive care unit. 30 Aug 2009
• Promoting peaceful death for Thai Buddhists: implications for holistic end-of-life care. 30 Aug 2009
• Rethinking the ethics of vital organ donations. 30 Aug 2009
• And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead. 30 Aug 2009
• And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead. 30 Aug 2009
• And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Attitude to Death'

Definition: Conceptual response of the person to the various aspects of death, which are based on individual psychosocial and cultural experience.

Descriptor UI: D001293

Alternative terms: Attitude to Death; Death, Attitude to; Attitudes to Death; Death, Attitudes to;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology;

Tree Number: F01.100.125; N05.300.125;

History Note: 74