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Nutrition support in palliative care

25 September 2002

Nursing Standard

CPD

Nutrition is an important aspect of caring for patients with life-threatening illness. Good nutrition support is essential, not only for meeting the body’s physical...

Fatigue in patients receiving palliative care

21 March 2007

Nursing Standard

CPD

This article discusses fatigue in patients receiving palliative care. The article initially considers the prevalence of fatigue in different groups of palliative...

The Therapeutic Use of Story-telling

01 April 2001

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

Jarvis (1992) writes that, ‘as reflective practitioners, nurses should be constantly seeking to learn from their practice, improving it and striving to become...

Developing a hospice service in Northern Ireland

01 October 2001

Paediatric Nursing

General

The death of a child is the saddest type of loss any parents or family can experience (Dominica 1990). Knowing that a child is going to die challenges the beliefs...

Just because we can, should we? A discussion of treatment withdrawal

10 February 2009

Paediatric Nursing

General

Children’s nurses are vocationally committed to promoting the health of children, relieving their suffering, enhancing their development, helping them to achieve a...

Developing palliative care services in partnership

01 April 2004

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

Last month’s publication of the NICE guidance document, Improving Supportive and Palliative Care for Adults with Cancer, has re-emphasised the need to increase and...

The value of a hospital palliative care team to other staff

01 February 2006

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

A hospital palliative care team (HPCT) aims to provide specific advice, information and support for people with cancer in partnership with hospital consultants and...

Developing competence: an evaluation of a nurse rotation pilot programme

01 June 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

The South East London Cancer Network Rotation Project established a rotation programme to provide nurses in cancer and palliative care with training across a range...

Establishing clinical rotation programmes in cancer and palliative care nursing

01 February 2004

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

The establishment of rotational nursing posts for practitioners wishing to develop skills in cancer and palliative care nursing is one possible answer to the...

Challenges in delivering effective palliative care to people with dementia

06 December 2012

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This literature review surveys palliative care received by people with dementia, and identifies challenges and barriers to its delivery. These include communication...

05 March 2025 / Vol 40 issue 3

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