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Ethical Challenges When Caring for African American Older Adults Requesting to Withdraw From Dialysis
This article will provide a brief overview of ethical issues to consider when responding to an older adult's request to withdraw from a life-sustaining treatment such as dialysis. Suggestions for research to address the gaps in knowledge will be presented. (Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing)
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - July 4, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: Ethics Series Source Type: research

Recognizing “Good Nursing”
No abstract available (Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing)
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - July 4, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: DEPARTMENTS: From the Editor Source Type: research

Reducing Burnout and Promoting Professional Development in the Palliative Care Service
No abstract available (Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing)
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: DEPARTMENTS: NCPD Test Source Type: research

Clinician Perspectives on How to Hold Earlier Discussions About Palliative and End-of-Life Care With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients: A Qualitative Study
This study explored clinicians' perspectives on the timing and nature of palliative care discussions. (Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing)
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: Online-Only Articles Source Type: research

“Hard to Say Goodbye Over iPad”: Experiences of Palliative Care Providers and Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Rural Communities of Indiana, United States
The need for palliative care (PC) has gained increased attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Palliative care adds an extra layer of support and care for patients with advanced chronic illnesses and their families. Because of pandemic restrictions, access and provision of PC services were challenging and resulted in huge suffering and caregiving burden among patients with advanced chronic illnesses and their families, especially those living in smaller towns and rural communities. The study aimed to describe the impact of COVID-19 on PC services and examine various ethical, moral, and practice issues and challenges experi...
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: Online-Only Articles Source Type: research

Palliative Care in Severe and Persistent Mental Illness: A Systematic Review
Severe and persistent mental illnesses refer to a group of psychiatric disorders causing severe dysfunction in patients and include diagnoses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression. Patients with severe and persistent mental illnesses have a complex symptomatology and face complicated medical disparities creating a difficult care process and reduced quality of life. Palliative care, a holistic approach to care that aims to reduce symptoms and stress of illness in persons living with chronic diagnoses, is appropriate within this population to address the complexity of care needs but is currently under...
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: Online-Only Articles Source Type: research

Palliative Care Masterclass for Nurses in Central-Eastern Europe: An International Collaboration
Given the increased need for palliative care services globally, the education of nurses has become paramount. In response, a group of nurses from Romania and the United States developed diverse nursing educational programs to meet the palliative care educational needs of nurses in Central-Eastern European countries. The purpose of this article is to describe a palliative nursing masterclass that was offered virtually to 59 participants, primarily nurses but also other health care professionals, from 11 Central-Eastern European countries. (Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing)
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: International Series Source Type: research

Can We Be at Peace With Unsolvable Suffering? A Qualitative Study Exploring the Effectiveness of Supportive Communication and Resilience Building
The authors provided six 180-minute interpersonal assistance workshops using teaching materials from the End-of-Life Care Association: 90 minutes each on supportive communication and role-playing. The content included the following: (Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing)
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: International Series Source Type: research

Assessment of the Educational and Health Care System–Related Issues From Physicians' and Nurses' Perspectives Before Developing a Palliative Care Program Within the Palestinian Health Care System: A Cross-sectional Study
This study aimed to assess PC knowledge, attitude, educational needs, and health care system–related issues from physicians' and nurses' perspectives before developing PC services within the Palestinian health care system. One hundred sixty-nine professionals participated in this cross-sectional survey. Data were collected by validated instruments. Professionals had insufficient knowledge about PC, but they had positive attitudes toward end-of-life care and care of the dying. Patients'/families' avoidance of talking about issues around dying and lack of training for staff related to PC were the most 2 significant barrier...
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: International Series Source Type: research

Nursing Student Perceptions of End-of-Life Communication Competence: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Effective communication skills are required when nurses care for patients and their families navigating life-limiting illness and the end of life. Educators have made great strides in integrating end-of-life content into prelicensure curricula. It is critical to evaluate nursing students' perceptions of their communication skills to empirically guide the development and implementation of future education interventions. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore nursing students' perceptions of their verbal and nonverbal communication competence when providing end-of-life care. Students participated in...
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature Articles Source Type: research

The Correlation Between Radiotherapy and Patients' Fear of Cancer Recurrence: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
The purpose of this review was to explore the correlation between patients' fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) and radiotherapy. National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang Database, China Science and Technology Journal Database, SinoMed, PubMed, Web of Science, EBSCO-CINAHL, Cochrane Library, and Ovid Embase were searched to identify relevant studies. Thirty-five eligible studies were included in the systematic review, and 22 of them were included in further meta-analysis. The results of the meta-analysis showed that the level of patients' FCR was positively correlated with radiotherapy, but the correlation was weak (overall ...
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature Articles Source Type: research

Reducing Burnout and Promoting Professional Development in the Palliative Care Service
Previous research suggests that health care providers working with issues of death and dying may experience increased stress and risk of burnout. Despite previous research on the problem of burnout faced by palliative care providers, there have been few interventions studied to prevent further burnout. Research does support allowing time away from a stressful health care environment to promote wellness and to decrease burnout. This pilot study ensured that each palliative care advanced practice provider received an 8-hour day monthly to work on professional development activities remotely. The Professional Quality of Life ...
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature Articles Source Type: research

A Reduced Deck of Conversation Cards of Wishes and Priorities of Patients in Palliative Care
The individual wishes and priorities of patients with advanced disease are too often neglected, making a deck of cards with statements reflecting potential wishes and priorities a useful conversation tool. However, in the most ill patients, the card selection and sorting process may be too strenuous. The aims of this study were to explore the wishes and priorities of patients receiving palliative care and to reduce a deck of statement cards to be clinically useable even for the most ill patients. In interviews, participants selected their top 10 from a deck of 46 statement cards. Descriptive and analytical statistics were ...
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature Articles Source Type: research

Hospice Referral in Advanced Cancer in New Jersey
This study was secondary analysis of the 2018 New Jersey State Inpatient Database. The sample was limited to adult patients with metastatic cancer. Descriptive statistics evaluated the composition of the sample. Generalized linear modeling estimated the effect of pain and depression on incidence of hospice referral in a racially and economically diverse population. Absence of pain resulted in lower odds of receiving a referral to hospice upon discharge (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 0.44; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.40-0.49; P = .00). Likewise, an absence of depression also resulted in decreased odds of a hospice referral...
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature Articles Source Type: research

Unbearable Suffering: A Concept Analysis
To understand and analyze the concept of “unbearable suffering” using a concept analysis method and to propose a new nursing diagnosis, the Walker and Avant method of concept analysis was used. Following the concept analysis method in 8 steps, a literature search was carried out in the MEDLINE, Dialnet, WOS, and PsycINFO databases between 2016 and 2020. Articles of theoretical or empirical nature, written in English, with the abstract available were included. As a result, 11 articles (4 theoretical and 7 empirical) were included. In addition, 2 cases were developed. The proposed new diagnosis, “unbearable suffering,�...
Source: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing - May 7, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature Articles Source Type: research