When Death Doesn't Come Easily: A Palliative Care Services Experience with Palliative Extubation (721)

A Family's Experience with Perinatal Palliative Care.

Being entrusted by the family as a partner in this experience was very meaningful. First, it was an example of how patient-centered care involves listening to patients’ goals and helping them to achieve those goals. I felt out of my element at several points along this journey, but I focused on advocating for the family and their goals as my touchstone. Second, it reaffirmed for me the importan...

Improving Nurses' Perceived Self-efficacy with Palliative Care Education

Introduction: Due to the remarkable advances in the field of intensive care, it has been possible to assist critically ill patients and this has led to a longer life expectancy in those with very poor prognosis. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived self-efficacy of nurses with palliative care education. Methods: This study was an experimental study conducted in 2019. The stu...

Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

Physician-assisted death is not palliative care.

Palliative care: experience with 156 cases in a general hospital.

The concept of Palliative Care is still quite new in Malaysia and there is a need to promote the awareness of its importance for patients with incurable and advanced illnesses, not only to the public but also to the nursing and medical professionals. These patients especially the poor ones very often have no one to turn to; they cannot afford to seek treatment from the private hospitals, they a...