Do Caregiver Experiences Shape End-of-Life Care Perceptions? Burden, Benefits, and Care Quality Assessment

Dimensions of Futility at the End of Life: Nurses’ Experiences in Intensive Care Units

Background and aims: The concept and meaning of futile care depends on the existing culture, values,religion, beliefs, medical achievements, and emotional status of a country. In Iran, futile care hasbecome a challenge for nurses working in intensive care units (ICUs). Considering the differencesobserved in defining futile care based on the patients’ conditions and the nurses’...

Cancer care quality measures: symptoms and end-of-life care.

OBJECTIVES To systematically identify quality measures and the evidence for them-to support quality assessment and improvement in the palliative care of patients with cancer in the areas of pain, dyspnea, depression, and advance care planning (ACP), and to identify important gaps in related research. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, CINAHL, and PsycINFO in English 1995-2005. We also conducted an extensi...

Nurses' perceptions and experiences with end-of-life communication and care.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To characterize oncology nurses' attitudes toward care at the end of life (EOL) and their experiences in caring for terminally ill patients, hospice discussions with patients and families, and the use of palliative care practices. DESIGN Descriptive correlational survey study. SETTING A Magnet®-designated hospital in southern California with more than 500 beds. SAMPLE 3...

Organizational assessment of end-of-life care.

Family care and burden at the end of life.

I n their article on family burden and the care of breast cancer patients (see page 1795), Grunfeld and colleagues make a fundamental and important point: family members provide a considerable amount of the care for people with terminal illnesses and their own health may suffer as a consequence. 1 In their study of 89 care-givers of women with advanced breast cancer, caregivers were significant...