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Cancer in midlife: care and hope

01 September 2003

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

This article outlines the issues and nursing strategies in caring for a patient with cancer, in relation to their position on the life span continuum. The author...

Place of death: Hobson’s Choice or patient choice?

01 May 2003

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

The place of final care for patients with terminal illness is influenced more by resource availability than patient choice. Resources are not consistently available...

Fostering hope in terminally ill patients

17 November 2004

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Aim To investigate the meaning of hope, identify strategies that terminally ill patients use in maintaining and fostering hope during the final stage of life,...

Assessing dependency in a community hospice service

01 April 2002

Paediatric Nursing

Management

In June 1999 a small multi-professional, multi-skilled community team of three workers, supported by a project consultant, a researcher and part-time administrator,...

Driving end-of-life care into the community

13 October 2008

Primary Health Care

Care

The battery was playing up just after Ann Smits was given the new van. It meant that an interior canopy could not be extended to come out at the side. But it didn’t...