Terminal Care
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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...

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...

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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Terminal Care'

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
• 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
• Medicine residents' self-perceived competence in end-of-life care. 30 Oct 2009
• [Treatment of incurable ill patients at intensive care units] 17 Oct 2009
• Dying from dementia. 13 Oct 2009
• The clinical course of advanced dementia. 13 Oct 2009
• Practice parameter update: The care of the patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: multidisciplinary care, symptom management, and cognitive/behavioral impairment (an evidence-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. 11 Oct 2009
• Nutritional support is maintained: case report. 29 Sep 2009
• Commentary. 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 role in transition. 13 Sep 2009
• Life prolonging in name only? 12 Sep 2009
• [Terminal phase hydration, pain and delirium] 12 Sep 2009
• End of life decisions. Counting end of life decisions. 12 Sep 2009
• End of life decisions. Doctors can be trusted. 12 Sep 2009
• [Use of the "Liverpool Care Pathway" in nursing homes] 31 Aug 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)