Intersection of Spiritual Care and Palliative Care: Meet Eunice Nusetor 456.25 KB

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Meet Eunice Nusetor, a registered general nurse, who is currently doing her national service at the 37 Military Hospital in Ghana. I work as a bedside nurse with continuous interactions with patients with various health-related conditions and providing quality healthcare such as monitoring patients' conditions, planning of care, and other general nursing responsibilities.

Intersection of Spiritual Care and Palliative Care: Meet Kristin Springmeyer 497.85 KB

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Meet Kristin Springmeyer a chaplain ordained in the ELCA Lutheran denomination for 27 years. Her responsibilities include spiritual assessments, regular visitation, end-of-life care, collaborating with community faith groups for patient needs, participating in our teams' quality improvement committee and the medical fellowship faculty, and providing education on various spiritual care topics for hospital staff and in the community. Education examples include: Understanding Faith Traditions at End-of-Life, Spiritual Assessment Models, Pediatric Stages of Faith, and Family Spiritual Coping through Miracles.

Intersection of Spiritual Care and Palliative Care: Meet Sasa Moslavac 471.94 KB

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Meet Sasa Moslavac, a PMR specialist in the Palliative Care Department of Novi Marof at the General Hospital Varaždin, Croatia. The department has 97 beds and he is responsible for the overall management of palliative patients and a multi-professional team for 20 – 30 patients, depending on the shared workload. His previous experience includes 25 years in spinal cord injury rehabilitation. For the past 10 months he has been working in the palliative care department.

Intersection of Spiritual Care and Palliative Care: Meet Mansara Hassan 497.47 KB

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Mansara Hassan is a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in North Texas.  She has been a Nurse Practitioner for two years after having worked as a registered nurse for over four years. She was introduced to Palliative Care while completing her graduate program and had the privilege of learning from some of the leading nurse scholars in the field.

Intersection of Spiritual Care and Palliative Care: Meet Deborah Wilde 422.75 KB

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Deborah Wilde has been in full-time healthcare chaplaincy for 14 years now. At University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay, she is the chaplaincy team leader at Furness General Hospital leading a team of sessional chaplains. She also sits on the Rapid Response for sudden and unexpected child death teams and other community ecumenical groups.

Intersection of Spiritual Care and Palliative Care: Meet Adiamo Adedayo 398.94 KB

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Adiamo Adedayo is a registered public health nurse under the nursing and midwifery council of Nigeria. She has been practicing nursing for about 6 years now.

End of Life Care in the Prison Environment: Updated May 1, 2021 373.14 KB

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In the following pages is a representative sample of articles, reports, etc., on hospice and palliative care in the prison environment noted over the past five years (2017-2021) in the weekly report Media Watch.

Although a universal public health issue, it is in the United States that most interest and attention has been afforded the aging and the terminally ill prison population.

This backgrounder begins with a selection of articles by way of a broad overview of the issue, followed by additional articles, etc., (in descending order of publication) that offer a national and (in the U.S.) stateby- state overview. This is followed by a list of articles, etc., from a variety of sources on end-of-life care in the prison systems in Australia, Canada, China, France, Ireland, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Switzerland and the U.K.

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Australia

50 Years of advance care planning: What do we call success?

Sweden

Continuums of change in a competence-building initiative addressing end-of-life communication in Swedish elder care

U.K.

Cicely Saunders, “total pain” and emotional evidence at the end of life

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Germany

Diversity in representations and voices of terminally ill people in end-of-life documentaries

U.S.

Integration of palliative care into all serious illness care as a human right

Research Matters

Stakeholder-engaged process for refining the design of a clinical trial in home hospice

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Australia

Evaluation of a commissioned end-of-life care service in Australian aged care facilities

Norway

Death Café, Bauman and striving for human connection in “liquid times”

U.S.
The role of advance care planning in cancer patient and caregiver grief resolution: Helpful or harmful?

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Canada

Activating patients and families to improve palliative care: The waiting room revolution

U.K

Models will only get us so far: Planning for place of care and death

Research Matters

The power of specialty palliative care: Moving towards a systems perspective

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Australia

Examining the role of specialist palliative care in geriatric care to inform collaborations: A survey on the knowledge, practice and attitudes of geriatricians in providing palliative care

Canada

The association between varying levels of palliative care involvement on costs during terminal hospitalizations in Canada from 2012 to 2015

Hospice care providers' experiences of grappling with medical assistance in dying in a hospice setting: A qualitative descriptive study

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Italy

The hospice as a learning space: A death education intervention with a group of adolescents

Norway

Palliative care in general practice: A questionnaire study on the GPs role and guideline implementation in Norway

U.K.

Palliative care at home “compromised” during pandemic, Marie Curie survey finds

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Europe

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Ethics of resuscitation and end-of-life decisions

U.S.

“Don’t talk to them about goals-of-care”: Understanding disparities in advance care planning

Research Matters

Facebook recruitment for children with advanced cancer and their parents: Lessons from a web-based pediatric palliative intervention study

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Canada

Hospital-based acute care in the last 30 days of life among patients with chronic disease that received early, late or no specialist palliative care: A retrospective cohort study of eight chronic disease groups

U.K.

Specialist palliative care service innovation and practice change in response to COVID-19. Results from a multinational survey…

Research Matters

Opportunities for public involvement in big data research in palliative and end-of-life care

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Australia

Public knowledge, preferences and experiences about medical substitute decision-making: A national cross-sectional survey

Ireland

Examining public knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards palliative care: A mixed method sequential study

U.K.

A critical realist evaluation of advance care planning in care homes

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Australia

A systematic review of classifications systems to determine complexity of patient care needs in palliative care

Germany

Ten things to consider when implementing rationing guidelines during a pandemic

U.K.

Incompatible: End-of-life care and health economics

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Canada

A national collaborative to spread and scale paramedics providing palliative care in Canada: Breaking down silos is essential to success

Spain

Effectiveness of a family-caregiver training program in home-based pediatric palliative care

U.K. & Ireland

“A silent epidemic of grief”: A survey of bereavement care provision in the U.K. and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Denmark

Citizens appreciate talking about death and learning end-of-life care: A mixed-methods study on views and experiences of 5,469 Last Aid Course participants

Physicians’ views on the usefulness and feasibility of identifying and disclosing patients’ last phase of life: A focus group study

U.S.

Conversing with high-risk patients to determine serious illness goals and values in the time of COVID-19

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Australia

Harnessing social support for bereavement now and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

U.K. (England)

Constructing a new role for family carers and volunteers providing care towards the end of life: An action research approach exploring a new model of hospice care

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Canada

Palliative care in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic

Europe

Responding to the new International Classification of Diseases-11 prolonged grief disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic: A new bereavement network and three-tiered model of care

U.S.

A vital layer of support: One safety net hospital’s palliative care response to the pandemic

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Palliative care in low-income and middle-income countries

“Flattening” one curve: What about “raising the line” on the other? COVID-19 and palliative care in low-income and middle-income countries

U.K. (Scotland)

How many people will need palliative care in Scotland by 2040? A mixed-method study of projected palliative care need and recommendations for service delivery

Europe

Palliative care competencies for geriatricians across Europe: A Delphi consensus study

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Spain 

Palliative care professionals’ inner lives: Cross-cultural application of the awareness model of self-care

U.K. (England & Wales)

Palliative care: Experts call for major reforms as pandemic accelerates demand by 20 years

BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL | Online – 26 January 2021 – Experts at a leading charity have made an urgent call for reforms to the U.K.’s palliative care system, as demand during the

U.S.

PSST! I need help! Development of a peer support program for clinicians having serious illness conversations during COVID-19

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Australia

Validation of the responding to urgency of need in palliative care (RUN-PC) triage tool

Denmark

Maintaining control: A qualitative study of being a patient in need of specialized palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic

U.K. (England)

A national survey of ambulance paramedics on the identification of patients with end-of-life care needs