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Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2017
OBJECTIVES The dual aim of this study is, first, to describe preferred place of care (PPOC) and preferred place of death (PPOD) in terminally ill patients with lung and heart diseases compared with cancer patients and second, to describe differences in ...
M. H. Skorstengaard +9 more
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OBJECTIVES The dual aim of this study is, first, to describe preferred place of care (PPOC) and preferred place of death (PPOD) in terminally ill patients with lung and heart diseases compared with cancer patients and second, to describe differences in ...
M. H. Skorstengaard +9 more
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Praying with the Terminally Ill
Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 1994Terminally ill persons and their families will communicate their own prayer needs to healing persons who are attending carefully. A number of guidelines may also be helpful to healers in developing the personal characteristics needed to minister effectively and in determining when and how to pray with patients.
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Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research, 2017
Background: Palliative care is an approach that has been used to care for terminally ill patients. The current study was performed to assess the association between the status of patient dignity and quality of life (QOL) in Iranian terminally ill ...
Abbas Hosseini +4 more
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Background: Palliative care is an approach that has been used to care for terminally ill patients. The current study was performed to assess the association between the status of patient dignity and quality of life (QOL) in Iranian terminally ill ...
Abbas Hosseini +4 more
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American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 1994
Denial in the terminally-ill is often seen as a problem that health care professionals, particularly social workers need to fix. Rather than seeing denial as a part of acceptance, it is seen adjust the opposite. Denial surfaces to establish control in an uncontrollable situation such as terminal illness.
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Denial in the terminally-ill is often seen as a problem that health care professionals, particularly social workers need to fix. Rather than seeing denial as a part of acceptance, it is seen adjust the opposite. Denial surfaces to establish control in an uncontrollable situation such as terminal illness.
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Dignity in the Terminally Ill: Revisited
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2006Several studies have been conducted examining the notion of dignity and how it is understood and experienced by people as they approach death.The purpose of this study was to use a quantitative approach to validate the Dignity Model, originally based on qualitative data.Themes and subthemes from the Dignity Model were used to devise 22 items; patients ...
Chochinov, H. +5 more
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Transferring the Terminally Ill
New England Journal of Medicine, 1984A growing awareness of the high cost of medical care has prompted doctors, hospitals, and third-party payers to reexamine many medical practices. Rules have been generated, particularly by insurance carriers, that seek to make medical practice more efficient, thereby reducing health-care costs.
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Nursing Clinics of North America, 1985
The experience of terminal illness can best be viewed as a situation of multiple losses involving the dying person, family members and friends, and the health care providers engaged in offering services to them. It is a major transition during which the central participants must cope with the personal meanings of the forthcoming death as well as other ...
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The experience of terminal illness can best be viewed as a situation of multiple losses involving the dying person, family members and friends, and the health care providers engaged in offering services to them. It is a major transition during which the central participants must cope with the personal meanings of the forthcoming death as well as other ...
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RELIGIOSITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF TERMINAL ILLNESS
Death Studies, 2003One of the assumptions that underpins the literature on spirituality is the belief that facing a terminal illness is a life crisis that intensifies the search for meaning, leaving individuals predisposed to embrace religion. To date, however, there is scant empirical research on the topic.
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Islamic Views on Artificial Nutrition and Hydration in Terminally Ill Patients
Bioethics, 2014Withholding and withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration from terminally ill patients poses many ethical challenges. The literature provides little information about the Islamic beliefs, attitudes, and laws related to these challenges.
Sami Jabir Alsolamy
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Serenity for a Terminally Ill Patient
The American Journal of Nursing, 1966At 59, Mrs. C. was terminally ill. She lay in the hospital near death. A year and a half before her present hospitalization, Mrs. C. had been found to have an adenocarcinoma of the colon. An abdominal perineal resection was performed and a colostomy done, and Mrs. C. seemed to have been doing well. At first, she said, she had thought she would never be
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