palliative care

Picture shows playing cards created by the charity Marie Curie to help broach the subject of death and dying. Early and open conversations with patients and their families can make a huge difference to the end of life experience.
Cancer Nursing Practice

How Marie Curie's Talkabout campaign is tackling taboo around death and dying

Comment
07 Jan 2020
Conservative management of patients with end-stage kidney disease
Nursing Standard

Conservative management of patients with end-stage kidney disease

CPD articles
23 Dec 2019
Picture shows a premature baby asleep in an incubator. New guidelines for nurses examine the stark decisions that arise when caring for extremely premature babies.
Nursing Children and Young People

Neonatal nursing: new guidelines on caring for very premature babies

Analysis
22 Nov 2019
Death: a social disadvantage? How one hospice is addressing inequality at end of life
Primary Health Care

Death: a social disadvantage? How one hospice is addressing inequality at end of life

Clinical
06 Nov 2019
In the child’s best interests: should life be sustained when further treatment is futile?
Nursing Children and Young People

In the child’s best interests: should life be sustained when further treatment is futile?

Clinical
22 Oct 2019
Family members’ and carers’ perceptions of palliative care provided by district nurses
Primary Health Care

Family members’ and carers’ perceptions of palliative care provided by district nurses

Clinical
16 Oct 2019
Family members’ and carers’ perceptions of palliative care provided by district nurses
Primary Health Care

Family members’ and carers’ perceptions of palliative care provided by district nurses

Clinical
16 Oct 2019
Irene-Tuffrey-Wijne
Learning Disability Practice

Personalised end of life care for people with learning disabilities is the gold standard

Features
17 Sep 2019
A patient with a terminal illness, who is wearing a headscarf, being comforted by another person
Nursing Standard

End of life care: when pain relief isn’t enough

Comment
05 Sep 2019
A patient with a terminal illness, who is wearing a headscarf, being comforted by another person
Nursing Standard

End of life care: when pain relief isn’t enough

Comment
05 Sep 2019
Approaches to community-based palliative care provision by children’s hospices in the UK
Nursing Children and Young People

Approaches to community-based palliative care provision by children’s hospices in the UK

Clinical
03 Sep 2019
Bereavement
Nurse Researcher

A focused mapping review and synthesis of current practice in qualitative end of life research with the bereaved

Clinical
22 Aug 2019
Primary Health Care

A qualitative study of the preparedness of practitioners to care for people with motor neurone disease in their homes

Clinical
21 August 2019
Nursing Standard

Marie Curie adds nurses on information line to offer clinical support

News
02 July 2019
Nursing Children and Young People

Funding crisis puts future of children's hospices in peril, charity warns

News
20 June 2019
Emergency Nurse

Time is Precious: person-centred end of life care in an emergency department. A quality improvement project

Clinical
18 June 2019
Emergency Nurse

Time is Precious: person-centred end of life care in an emergency department. A quality improvement project

Clinical
18 June 2019
Cancer Nursing Practice

Identifying existential distress in people at the end of life

Research news
11 June 2019

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