WS09.8 End-of-life care in CF patients: France, 2007–2010

SPIRITUAL CARE OF END OF LIFE PATIENTS IN IRAN: A NEGLECTED NURSING PRACTICE

 Spirituality as one of the human being aspects, is associated with all domains of health and disease as well as the source of power and improvement in patients (1). Although, all of patients have spiritual needs, but end of life patients that encounter with unassertiveness, spiritual needs are very important (2). Nurses have responsibility to carry out spiritual care ethically and professional...

Quality end-of-life care: patients' perspectives.

CONTEXT Quality end-of-life care is increasingly recognized as an ethical obligation of health care providers, both clinicians and organizations. However, this concept has not been examined from the perspective of patients. OBJECTIVE To identify and describe elements of quality end-of-life care from the patient's perspective. DESIGN Qualitative study using in-depth, open-ended, face-to-face...

Nurses' attitude towards end-of-life care in neonatal intensive care units

Introduction: Infants with life-threatening conditions need to receive palliative care. Nurses should have appropriate attitudes due to their key role in end-of-life care to the patient.Therefore, this study is conducted with the aim of "determining attitude of nurses towards end-of-life care in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) ". Method: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 214 nurs...

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

End-of-life care