Research

Care home senior care leader's confidence is influenced by care home characteristics, particularly availability of on-site registered nurses and the infrastructure of large care homes. All care home leaders benefit from training, working with external, multidisciplinary teams and use of guidance. Ho …

Recent empirical studies revealed that fostering patients' perception of meaning in their life is an essential task for palliative care clinicians. However, few studies have reported the effects of training programs for nurses specifically aimed at improving skills to relieve the meaninglessness of …

Palliative care training can increase the nursing students perceived self-efficacy. Since nursing students are the future nurses of the care system, therefore, managers and planners can take a step towards improving the quality of nursing care by using palliative care training programs. Since nursin …

Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) is a complex process involving the person seeking care and their relatives. MAiD involves physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs, and consequently the involvement of an interdisciplinary team is beneficial. Therefore, updating the knowledge and skills of health …

Previous research has linked death attitudes, palliative care self-efficacy, and attitudes toward care of the dying among nursing students and other nursing samples, but not among hospice nurses. The purpose of this study was to investigate these relationships among hospice nurses (N = 90). More pos …

Ethical approval for this study was given by the KU Leuven Social and Societal Ethics Committee (SMEC) on 14 April 2021 (reference number: G-2020-2247-R2(MIN)). Findings will be disseminated through professional networks, conference presentations and publications in scientific journals.

Virtual Teaching programme and Conventional teaching both were effective in enhancing the knowledge, self-efficacy and attitude among Nursing Personnel regarding palliative care with conventional teaching being more effective.

The aim of the present study is to validate the Self-Efficacy in Palliative Care Scale (SEPC) in Spanish nursing professionals and students, to describe their levels of self-efficacy, and to determine the influencing factors. A validation study and a cross-sectional descriptive study were carried ou …

Can assistants' skills be used to improve colorectal cancer surgery outcomes in a way similar to the "butterfly effect"?

I am 16 years of age and a Care Assistant at a residential home, and I would like to become a nurse. When I am 18 I would like to begin nurse training and need some help on what to do to achieve this goal.

Clinical assistants are aides who learn more, earn more

The Cancer Nurse as Primary Palliative Care Agent During COVID-19

Capturing the richness of palliative education outcomes through the use of focus groups

What Is the California Medical Assistants' Association?

What is the value of palliative care provision in low-resource settings?

I tell anyone who asks that I gave up nursing because it made me do things to people that I did not like doing. By the end, I had become more custodian than mental health nurse.

Growth of palliative care programs - how are we doing?

A retired nurse who joined the NITS at its founding told Congress of her sense of betrayal at the means testing of care for elderly people.

Voice-controlled virtual assistants for the older people with visual impairment

A commission set up to review care of older people is calling for healthcare assistants to be regulated and greater powers to be given to ward sisters.

I found the article 'Assessment of older people using medication' (October 2001) to be interesting and very informative. As an anticoagulant nurse, the vast majority of the patients I deal with are over 65. I have always emphasised the importance of patient education, assessment and consent in treat …

Non-nurse assistants scrub for surgery

The dietary assistants' course; Cleveland

Physician Assistants' Role in Twenty-First Century Infectious Diseases

I was inspired to work with older people by a ward sister during my training. She was a fantastic role model who showed me that working with older people covers every facet of nursing, from managing multiple conditions and polypharmacy, to rehabilitation and palliative care.

The things older people in care homes value most are company and security. Many older people feel isolated and frightened living in their own homes. The feeling of security and having people around them to talk to are two of the most valued aspects of living in care settings.

A nurse-led review into the care of older people at the Princess of Wales hospital in Bridgend, south Wales, has been commissioned.

Congress voted to ensure the proper role and function of the nurse is promoted and that health care assistants continue to support that role.

A course for health care assistants (HCAs) caring for older people is proving so successful that five students are going on to train as nurses.

This paper reports on a nurse consultant's experiences of using Discovery Interview technique with older patients and their relatives about their urgent care experiences.