Both nurses and pharmacists can play key roles in consulting with patients and their families about palliative care and then managing that care, two new studies show. The first study, published in ...

When nurses reported less frequent use of palliative care for their patients, they tended to experience higher levels of moral distress, a study finds. Minimally invasive surgery, telemedicine, ...

I was a palliative care nurse long before the discipline was formally identified. I always went out of my way to keep my patients' pain under control and their symptoms effectively addressed. In my ...

Although many people don't like to think about death and dying, it will happen eventually. When it does, those who are fortunate enough to have hospice and palliative care nurses caring for them will ...

Are you considering a change to your career in nursing? Our new series of first-person accounts of what it's like to be a nurse in a nontraditional nursing role might provide inspiration to those ...

As a rapid influx of patients overwhelmed health systems during the coronavirus pandemic, palliative nurses played dual roles supporting patients, patient families, and colleagues. Two researchers at ...

The American Nurses Association and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association are calling on nurses to take the lead on transforming palliative care. The two groups convened a panel in January ...

For an estimated 11% of Americans over age 65 who have dementia and the over 11 million unpaid caregivers supporting them, ...

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With many in the community supporting the idea of palliative care being an essential part of critical care, the integration of end-of-life support with curative and life-sustaining intervention is ...

L-R: Sarada Lewis, RN, CHPN, Amy Lebolt, MSW, Julie Hirsch, RN, CHPN, Lynn Rapp, RN, CHPN. Not pictured are Lindsay High, RN, CHPN, Lori Leopold, MSW and Juliana ...

In the hallways of University Hospital, health care professionals in need of advice on providing palliative care to patients know to turn to nurse practitioner Holli Martinez, FNP-BC, ACHPN, for ...