Hospice Nurses Research Articles

Residency Programs for Home Health and Hospice Nurses

The Institute of Medicine’s report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” calls for “transition-to-practice” residencies for new nurses and nurses transferring to new types of settings. In this study, we examine the current residency landscape for home health and hospice nurses and compare it with responses from their peers in hospitals and nurse-led primary care clinics. We find that just 2% of surveyed home health and hospice settings offer residencies, while almost 49% of hospitals and 11% of nurse-led primary care clinics provide them. Major barriers cited include lack of available preceptors and financial costs. We discuss ways in which the federal government could help spur the development of residencies in this sector.

Hospice care compliance of nurses working at a hospice ward in Korea

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the hospice care compliance of nurses working at a hospice ward and provide meaningful data to improve the hospice care compliances. Methods: Participants included 104 nurses working at the hospice ward of the hospital located at P and D cities. Data was collected from February to March 2012. The level of hospice care compliance was measured using Bae (2000)’s questionnaires. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Scheffe test using SPSS/WIN 18.0 program. Results: The level of hospice care compliance in hospice nurses working at a hospice ward was high (3.25 out of 4). In hospice care compliance, the physical area was highest, followed by the emotional, spiritual, and social areas. Hospice care compliance was significantly different according to age, marital status, education, religion, importance of religion, job position, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Hospice care compliance was also significantly different according to the nurses’ experience of death, having license or certification related to hospice care and experiences related to clients’ death. Conclusions: The findings of this study showed that the level of hospice care compliance was high and the hospice care compliance in South Korea was primarily focused on physical care. Considering that spiritual needs are important needs in hospice clients, hospice nurses need to focus on those aspects more. To improve the quality of hospice care compliance in the hospice nurses, programs to increase hospice nurses’ job and life satisfaction are needed.

Influential Factors Related to Job Satisfaction in Hospice Nurses: Focus on Emotional Labor and Burnout

Influential Factors Related to Job Satisfaction in Hospice Nurses: Focus on Emotional Labor and Burnout

Safety climate and use of personal protective equipment and safety medical devices among home care and hospice nurses.

: Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and safety medical devices is mandated for healthcare workers to reduce the risk of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) from exposure to patients’ blood. Research has shown that a strong safety climate may promote increased use of PPE. Therefore, the objective of this study was to examine the association between safety climate and use of PPE among homecare/hospice nurses in North Carolina. To this end, a mail survey was conducted in 2006. The response rate, adjusted on the assumption that the proportion of eligible nurses from among those who did not return the questionnaire or could not be contacted was similar to the proportion among those who did return the questionnaire, was 69% (n=833 eligibles). The percentage of nurses who used the specified PPE was two to three times greater among nurses who had a strong safety climate. Safety climate was only weakly associated with using safety devices. These results suggest that improving safety climate may be a powerful tool for increasing use of PPE.

Self-estimation by nurses care on patients staying in hospices

Introduction: Medical care especially in the last part of life is very important regarding its quality. Holistic care of ill people should in equal part take into account psychological, physiologic, social and spiritual needs of the patients. Aim of the study: Estimation to what extent the needs of the hospitalized in the hospices patients are satisfied. Establishing which elements are the most important in holistic nature of taken care.Material and method: The study included 68 hospice nurses taking care of patients. The research tool was a questionnaire consisting of proprietary specifications and 23 closed questions for self-assessment of care. The research was voluntary and anonymous, carried them among employees working in hospices fixed Trzebnica, Wroclaw, Chojnów, Kowary, Lubin and Wałbrzych in the period from June to August 2012.Results: Most of the interviewees (62%, 42) are self-satisfied and regard their service has good quality. They think their attitude to the patient is proper and contact is fully acceptable (59%, 40). They achieve satisfaction at work (43%, 29), show empathy (69%, 47), patience and respect (84%, 57), observe personal dignity and intimacy (51%, 35), and his psycho-social and spiritual needs are equally important as physiological (88%, 60). However from time to time patient is treated instrumentally (53%, 36). The main reason for that is haste (85%, 58). Conclusions: Most interviewees are satisfied with own attitude toward hospitalized patients and is taking their opinion regarding care fundamentals into account. Interviewees are respecting patients’ dignity, they notice psycho-social and spiritual needs. The most important factors diminishing quality of performed care are haste, work overload and fatigue. The results show, however, that there is a difference between its own assessment of care and the actual.

Effect of end-of-life care education using humanistic approach in Korea

The essential concept of hospice and palliative care nursing is a humanistic approach to patient care. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a humanistic end-of-life care course on South Korean undergraduate nursing students' attitudes toward death, death anxiety, and communication skills. A nonequivalent control group design was used. Thirty-nine students from two universities were allocated to the control (n = 20) and experimental (n = 19) groups. Participants in the experimental group were enrolled in an end-of-life care course that utilized humanistic approach two hours per week for 16 weeks. The data were analyzed using the SPSS WIN 17.0. Attitudes toward death and communication skills in the experimental group were found to have increased compared with those of the control group. In conclusion, the humanistic end-of-life care course is effective in reducing negative attitudes toward death and increasing the communication skills of Korean nursing students.

End-of-Life and Advance Care Planning Considerations for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients #275

Journal of Palliative MedicineVol. 17, No. 1 Fast Facts and ConceptsEnd-of-Life and Advance Care Planning Considerations for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients #275Andrew Lawton, Jocelyn White, and Erik K. FrommeAndrew LawtonSearch for more papers by this author, Jocelyn WhiteSearch for more papers by this author, and Erik K. FrommeSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:10 Jan 2014https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2013.9457AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleFiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byLong-Term Care Preferences and Sexual Orientation–A Systematic Review and Meta-AnalysisJournal of the American Medical Directors Association, Vol. 24, No. 3Advance Care Planning among Older Gay Men Living with HIV in Montreal, Canada: Challenges to Thinking and Talking about Future Care12 January 2021 | Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 69, No. 4Sexual Health in the Older Adults26 June 2022Appointment of a Healthcare Power of Attorney Among Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Adults in the Southern United States9 December 2020 | American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, Vol. 38, No. 11Family Involvement in ICU25 March 2020Meeting the Needs of People Who Identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer in Palliative Care Settings6 March 2019 | Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, Vol. 21, No. 4Geriatric Transgender Care23 February 2019Family-Focused Care Span13 April 2019Barriers to End-of-Life Care for LGBT Persons in the Absence of Legal Marriage or Adequate Legal Documentation Jessica Marsack and Rob Stephenson1 July 2018 | LGBT Health, Vol. 5, No. 5Current Best Practices for Sexual and Gender Minorities in Hospice and Palliative Care SettingsJournal of Pain and Symptom Management, Vol. 55, No. 5Family-Focused Care Span1 June 2018Family-Focused Care Span26 June 2018Family Role in Patient Safety in the Intensive Care Unit31 October 2018End-of-Life Care Planning for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender IndividualsJournal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, Vol. 19, No. 6Healthcare and End-of-Life Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Older Adults: A Scoping Review16 March 2017 | Geriatrics, Vol. 2, No. 1‘Nurses don't deal with these issues’: nurses’ role in advance care planning for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients25 July 2016 | Journal of Clinical Nursing, Vol. 25, No. 23-24Sexuality and agingCurrent Opinion in Supportive & Palliative Care, Vol. 10, No. 1 Volume 17Issue 1Jan 2014 InformationCopyright 2014, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.To cite this article:Andrew Lawton, Jocelyn White, and Erik K. Fromme.End-of-Life and Advance Care Planning Considerations for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients #275.Journal of Palliative Medicine.Jan 2014.106-108.http://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2013.9457Published in Volume: 17 Issue 1: January 10, 2014Online Ahead of Print:December 18, 2013PDF download

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Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing: December 2013 - Volume 15 - Issue 8 - p 420-423 doi: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000000023

The Enduring Presence of Ethical Challenges in Palliative Nursing

Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing: December 2013 - Volume 15 - Issue 8 - p 419 doi: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000000022

Neurologic Symptoms in Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients on Hospice

Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing: December 2013 - Volume 15 - Issue 8 - p 444-445 doi: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000000029

Caring and Coping

Recruitment and retention of hospice nurses have been a challenge in the last decade due, in part, to workplace stress. This research seeks to better understand and expand the current body of knowledge surrounding the coping process for this group. In addition, this research explores the availabilit

A comparison of the nurse work environment between perinatal and non-perinatal hospice providers

Hospice nurses have a unique role in providing perinatal care, yet little is known about the work environment in which nurses provide care for families and infants at the end of life. To compare the nurse work environment between perinatal and non-perinatal hospices. Data from the 2007 US National Home and Hospice Care Survey was used. The sample included 526 US hospice agencies. Comparisons were calculated using the Pearson chi-square and Wald tests. A majority of hospices provided perinatal care (60%). Compared with non-perinatal hospices, the perinatal nurse work environment had a significantly higher proportion of registered nurses (mean 0.87 vs mean 0.79), along with clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners to support them (95.6% vs 84.9%). Nurses within perinatal care providers worked in a climate of significantly greater safety (95.6% vs 84.9%) and technology (63.7% vs 47.1%). Understanding the unique perinatal hospice nurse work environment may be essential for advancing knowledge and compassion for mothers and babies at the end of life.

P60 The experience of recruiting hospice patients, family members and health care professionals to a qualitative research study

BackgroundA single patient recruitment site hospice and local university partnership has been established for a European Research Council funded research study. It aims to assess the validity of a supportive...

P88 Using an outcome measure in specialist palliative care settings

BackgroundMore and more people are living with chronic disease near the end of their life, therefore palliative care needs are increasing. Outcome measurement has a major role to play in...

P123 Improving end of life care on inpatient dementia wards

IntroductionThis audit and service review looks at a collaborative approach to improving the end of life care for people with dementia on inpatient wards in Cornwall. It has prevented many...

Health Care Utilization by Patients Whose Care Is Managed by a Primary Palliative Care Clinic

Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing: October 2013 - Volume 15 - Issue 7 - p 380-381 doi: 10.1097/01.NJH.0000435068.71301.45

Association News

Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing: October 2013 - Volume 15 - Issue 7 - p 368-371 doi: 10.1097/NJH.0b013e3182a45775

Management of Constipation in Patients With Parkinson Disease

Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing: October 2013 - Volume 15 - Issue 7 - p 388-389 doi: 10.1097/01.NJH.0000435069.71301.0c

010 Inspiring compassionate care in an acute hospital setting – the power of QELCA

Transforming the traditional delivery of specialist end-of-life care education and training for nursing staff in acute hospital settings through the Quality End of Life Care for All (QELCA) education and...

P52 Quality End of Life Care for All (QELCA©)

The Department of Health has concluded that the non-specialist workforce needs to develop the necessary attitudes and skills in order to deliver consistently high quality care for people approaching the...