The Advanced Practice Nurse's Role in Palliative Care and the Management of Dyspnea - Medscape - Dec 31, 2006.

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Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of people with serious or life-altering illnesses. Each person’s care varies but can involve physical, psychological, and educational elements.

The head of an Ontario agency responsible for delivering and coordinating medical supplies needed for home and palliative care has been fired in the wake of critical shortages, Global News can ...

Objectives To examine whether use of a hand-held fan (‘fan’) improves breathlessness and increases physical activity. Methods A secondary exploratory analysis using pooled data from the fan arms of ...

Raising awareness for common symptoms as pain, breathlessness or neuropsychiatric symptoms serves as basis for assessment and treatment. Recognizing approaching end of life is important to provide ...

Terminally ill patients could choose assisted dying due to the lack of palliative care, a senior nursing chief has admitted. The head of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) told Kim Leadbeater’s ...

Correspondence to Dr Stephen Fenning, NHS Fife Specialist Palliative Care Service, Victoria Hospice, Kirkcaldy, KY2 5AH, UK; stephen.fenning3{at}nhs.scot Objectives Breathlessness is the most ...

Lessons From Taxanes Versus Eribulin for First-Line Metastatic Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Positive Breast Cancer in the EMERALD Study ASCO Guidelines provide recommendations with ...

A family has recovered £53,000 in care home costs after appealing a decision for support from the NHS. Shirley O’Sullivan, 97, was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease before she passed away in ...

Your healthcare team can guide you in developing a care plan that helps you manage your COPD overall and work to live with dyspnea and other symptoms. The two main types of COPD are emphysema and ...

The Scottish government has scrapped its flagship plan to create a National Care Service. The reform, which had already been scaled back and delayed, was axed by Social Care Minister Maree Todd in ...