Hospice: Angels at Work

Meaning-centered dream work with hospice patients: A pilot study.

OBJECTIVE Hospice patients often struggle with loss of meaning, while many experience meaningful dreams. The purpose of this study was to conduct a preliminary exploration into the process and therapeutic outcomes of meaning-centered dream work with hospice patients. METHOD A meaning-centered variation of the cognitive-experiential model of dream work (Hill, 1996; 2004) was tested with partic...

Angels and Other Servants

In politics as in history, masters accomplish great things, but often, lowly beings such as servants perform those tasks. At times, they subvert them. In science, servant-beings are frequently described as demons and angels. Who are these effective agents? This essay traces parts of the large historical network of persons and places in which ‘little helpers’ service their master’s will. It look...

Work experience, work environment, and blood exposure among home care and hospice nurses.

Blood exposure rates among home care and hospice nurses (RNs) in the United States are markedly lower for nurses with more home care/hospice experience, whether or not they have more total years of nursing experience (i.e., in other work environments). This study examined whether the protective effect of home care/hospice experience was greater for nurses who worked under three types of circums...

Angels Without Wings

Patient’s Factors at Entering Hospice Affecting Length of Survival in a Hospice Center

PURPOSE In order to provide effective hospice care, adequate length of survival (LOS) in hospice is necessary. However the reported average LOS is much shorter. Analysis of LOS in hospice has not been reported from Korea. We evaluated the duration of LOS and the factors associated with LOS at our hospice center. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively examined 446 patients who were admitted ...