Terminal Care - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 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...

From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.

29 Nov 2009 The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...

[Terminal phase hydration, pain and delirium]

12 Sep 2009 Hydration of the terminal patient may relieve confusion and complaints of "dry mouth". But it may worsen oedema of the brain, lungs, and extremities, worsen terminal rattling and cause a need for frequent changing of diapers. The decision of whether ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Terminal Care - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Nursing, religiosity, and end-of-life care: interconnections and implications. 29 Nov 2009
• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• [Treatment of incurable ill patients at intensive care units] 17 Oct 2009
• The case for killing granny. Rethinking end-of-life care. 19 Sep 2009
• [Terminal phase hydration, pain and delirium] 12 Sep 2009
• Withholding truth from patients. 30 Jul 2009
• [Palliative care - difficult decisions at the end of life] 30 Jul 2009
• [The rights of family members to make medical decisions for their incapacitated relatives] 30 Jul 2009
• "Please don't let me be misunderstood". 30 Jul 2009
• Clinical report--Forgoing medically provided nutrition and hydration in children. 25 Jul 2009
• Rewriting the end. 29 Jun 2009
• Questions on organ donation and hastening death. 29 Jun 2009
• Nursing and euthanasia: a review of argument-based ethics literature. 29 Jun 2009
• The use of sedation to relieve cancer patients' suffering at the end of life: addressing critical issues. 29 Jun 2009
• Mandatory ethics consultation policy. 29 Jun 2009
• Navigating the chasm between religious and secular perspectives in modern bioethics. 30 May 2009
• Should implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and permanent pacemakers in patients with terminal illness be deactivated? Deactivating permanent pacemaker in patients with terminalillness. Patient autonomy is paramount. 30 May 2009
• Should implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and permanent pacemakers in patients with terminal illness be deactivated? Deactivating implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and permanent pacemakers in patients with terminal illness. An ethical distinction. 30 May 2009
• Clinical ethics issues in geriatric psychiatry. 30 May 2009
• [Intensive care at the end of life] 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Terminal Care'

Definition: Medical and nursing care of patients in the terminal stage of an illness.

Descriptor UI: D013727

Alternative terms: Terminal Care; Care, Terminal;

Related Mesh Headings: Life Support Care; Palliative Care; Hospice Care; Advance Care Planning;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.905; N02.421.585.905;

History Note: 68(64)

Technical Notes: med & nurs care for the patient: TERMINALLY ILL refers to the patient; also available is HOSPICE CARE (palliative & supportive care for the patient & family)