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Open AccessSupportive care needs of people with pancreatic cancer: a literature review

10 January 2019

Cancer Nursing Practice

Palliative care

Quality of life is crucial to people with pancreatic cancer due to poor survival rates and high symptom burden. Timely and person-centred supportive and palliative...

A qualitative study of the preparedness of practitioners to care for people with motor neurone disease in their homes

21 August 2019

Primary Health Care

literature review

Motor neurone disease (MND) results in disabilities that affect most activities in daily life. Patients with MND require care and support with these activities at...

Overcoming the barriers to optimal end of life care in the emergency department

05 September 2023

Emergency Nurse

end of life care

The focus of care in the emergency department (ED) is on saving or sustaining life, but some patients admitted to the ED die in the ED. Nurses whose focus is on...

Developing a specialist clinic for monitoring, educating and supporting patients at risk of skeletal-related events

14 June 2023

Cancer Nursing Practice

Palliative care

Patients with bone metastases are at significant risk of skeletal-related events such as metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC), pathological fractures and...

Barriers to effective end of life care in the acute sector: a literature review

25 October 2024

Cancer Nursing Practice

evidence and practice

The acute hospital is the place of care and death for many people at the end of life, but not all hospital inpatients who are approaching death receive appropriate...

Implementing palliative and end of life care for people with dementia

06 November 2024

Nursing Older People

Dementia care

Dementia is characterised by memory loss, behavioural changes and decline of cognitive, social and physical functions and is a life-limiting condition. At the point...