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More than end of life care

08 March 2011

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

Hospice care is shifting away from dealing solely with end of life issues to helping families live with children with life-limiting conditions. Many of the children...

Hospice care in romania

01 November 2005

Paediatric Nursing

Transcultural nursing

Romania’s troubled history is well known. The attention of the Western world was drawn to the plight of Romania’s children in 1989, following the overthrow of the...

Dying art

14 November 2007

Nursing Standard

News

Working in a hospice gives nurses the opportunity to make patients’ end of life peaceful, dignified and pain free.

The therapeutic effects of hand massage

10 June 2009

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

This article provides a framework for the inclusion of hand massage in the care plans of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in a hospice...

Securing ethical permissions to conduct research with children

07 February 2012

Nursing Children and Young People

General

The process of obtaining ethical permission for medical research is particularly complex in multicentre studies. This article explores the experience of seeking...

Palliative care partnerships

25 October 2009

Nursing Management

Feature

Partnerships between the voluntary sector and the NHS are increasingly important, particularly in palliative care. But research undertaken by the Commission for the...

Making the most of life

14 October 2008

Nursing Standard

Feature

The Ty Hafan hospice in south Wales offers care to children with life-limiting conditions, but many nurses are unaware of the additional services it provides to...

Innovative approach to providing 24/7 palliative care for children

08 July 2014

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

This study outlines an innovative, English hospice-based service that provides 24/7 care for children with life-limiting conditions and their families. Operational...

Life-changing research

24 March 2009

Nursing Standard

Feature

Landmark nursing research has inspired nurse leaders to take their own pioneering steps.

A carer’s perspective

02 March 2010

Nursing Standard

Features

In the fourth article in the series on managing change, Julie Newby describes how she improved end of life care and Stephen Wright analyses the skills she used.

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