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Terminating the Nurse-Patient Relationship

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1963
N URSES TODAY ARE becoming increasingly aware of the importance of establishing effective interpersonal relationships with their patients. This is true not only in psychiatric nursing but in general nursing as well, as nurses become more and more interested in learning how to use their own "selves" more constructively in their relationships with ...
S L, HALE, J H, RICHARDSON
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TERMINATION OF CHLORPROMAZINE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1958
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the effect upon behavior of withdrawing chlorpromazine treatment after it had been established as the preferred treatment routine. Four groups of patients, each containing 28 chronic schizophrenics matched for length of treatment on clinical dosage of chlorpromazine, were studied intensively for 6 ...
W W, GOOD, M, STERLING, W H, HOLTZMAN
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Dehydration in the terminally ill patient

Nursing Standard, 2001
Many healthcare professionals believe that dehydration is painful and uncomfortable for dying patients. There is increasing evidence to support the view that dehydration might aid comfort and reduce stress in the final days of terminal illness. The decision of whether or not to administer artificial hydration intravenously of subcutaneously causes much
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Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminal Patient

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1996
Artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) may be provided parenterally or enterally. Hydration alone can be provided intravenously (vein) or subcutaneously (hypodermocylsis). This article explores the medical myths surrounding ANH, especially the enteral route ("tube feeding"), and discusses alternative approaches.
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Terminal Care for Noncancer Patients

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1996
The hospice approach to terminal care will benefit patients with advanced chronic illnesses other than cancer. This article describes general criteria that will help clinicians assess when patients may be appropriately referred for hospice care. Common illnesses, such as dementia, heart disease, lung disease, and renal failure for which terminal care ...
C F, von Gunten, M L, Twaddle
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BRONCHOPNEUMONIA IN TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1969
A bstract Bronchopneumonia was found in one third of all autopsies at the VA hospital in Fayetteville, N.C. In about two thirds of the bronchopneumonia cases there was evidence of aspiration.
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Terminating the Physician‐Patient Relationship

The Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology, 1994
background. This continues our series of articles addressing the many medicolegal aspects that impact the practice of dermatology. Because the physician‐patient relationship is the cornerstone of every medical malpractice action, the proper termination of that relationship is very important.methods. A format of an initial discussion of legal concepts
A, Torres, R, Wagner, S, Proper
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Healthcare for terminal cancer patients

International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 2005
e said it simply, “I’m dying, one of the more natural rocesses of life.” He coughed, causing him to put the xygen mask on for 2 min. Finally he took it off. “I just ish it would not take so long!” (an anonymous cancer atient). A 70-year-old man entered the hospital severely physially impaired because of a large oat cell carcinoma of the ung with a ...
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Rehabilitation in terminal cancer patients

International Rehabilitation Medicine, 1981
Good terminal care may be described as rehabilitation of the dying, and is exemplified in the modern hospice. The aim is to help the individual patient to do his best, given his illness, his symptoms, and his cultural, familial and personal background and beliefs. Comfort is the primary objective, not prolongation of life.
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Terminally Ill Patients as Customers: The Patient's Perspective

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2014
Abstract Background: Consumerism in health care defines patients as self-determined, rational customers. Yet, it is questionable whether vulnerable patients, such as the terminally ill, also fulfill these criteria.
Seibel, Katharina, Valeo, Sara Celestina, Xander, Carola, Adami, Sandra, Dürk, Thorsten, Becker, Gerhild   +5 more
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