Int J Palliat Nurs. 2021 Dec 2;27(10):504-514. doi: 10.12968/ijpn.2021.27.10.504.ABSTRACTAIM: To explore the oral care experiences of palliative care patients and of those who support or deliver oral care to these patients: nurses, doctors, dentists, their relatives and carers.DATA SOURCES: An electronic search of the databases included: Embase, MEDLINE, DOSS, AMED and PsycINFO was performed.DATA SELECTION: Six articles were included in the final synthesis.DATA EXTRACTION: Thematic analysis was applied by two researchers.DATA SYNTHESIS: Three themes were identified: ‘performing oral care’, ‘effects on oral health’ and ‘challenges in palliative care’.CONCLUSIONS: Despite similarities of oral care experiences, this review identified some differences, crucially…
Origen: Oral care experiences of palliative care patients, their relatives/carers and healthcare professionals – PubMed

Int J Palliat Nurs. 2021 Dec 2;27(10):490-503. doi: 10.12968/ijpn.2021.27.10.490.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Palliative care improves the health of children with a life-limiting condition and appears to draw implicitly on concepts shared with a model of health promotion. However, to date there has been no scrutiny about how this relationship may shape understanding about children’s palliative care.AIM: To explore the influence of health promoting concepts on children’s palliative care models, policies and guidelines.DATA SOURCES: Health and social care databases were searched for policies, models and guidelines published between 2000-2018. Additional searches of professional national and international healthcare websites, children’s palliative care charities and UK…
Origen: Synthesis of health promotion concepts in children's palliative care – PubMed

Int J Palliat Nurs. 2021 Dec 2;27(10):515-523. doi: 10.12968/ijpn.2021.27.10.515.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: New Zealand is reliant upon internationally qualified nurses (IQNs) working within aged residential care (ARC), despite the fact that many of these nurses have limited or no ARC or palliative care experience before arriving in the country.AIMS: To understand the issues faced by IQNs providing palliative care to people in ARC. To understand how the palliative aged residential care (PARC) specialist nurse team can best support IQNs.METHODS: A thematic analysis was undertaken from five focus group interviews with IQNs (n=24) from ARC facilities in the Christchurch and Canterbury regions.FINDINGS: Unfamiliarity with…
Origen: Experience of internationally qualified nurses providing palliative care in a New Zealand aged residential care facility – PubMed

BMC Palliat Care. 2021 Dec 15;20(1):189. doi: 10.1186/s12904-021-00884-2.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: In this paper we assess the quality of six deliberative stakeholder consultations regarding the implementation of a precision diagnostic for life-threatening pediatric brain tumors. Decision makers who base policy recommendations on the outputs of consultative exercises can presuppose that all deliberants are well informed of the policy issue, that participation in the deliberative process was fair, and that overcoming implementation barriers will necessarily result in practice change. Additional evidence is therefore needed to substantiate the informational quality of the deliberation, measure the equality of participation and study the effects on stakeholder reasoning…
Origen: Assessing the quality of deliberative stakeholder consultations involving allied health professionals in pediatric palliative care and hematology/oncology in Canada – PubMed

Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2022 Dec;17(1):2015058. doi: 10.1080/17482631.2021.2015058.ABSTRACTPURPOSE: Comfort Measures Only (CMO) is a label commonly used in the USA that guides the care of a hospitalized patient who is likely to die. The CMO label has unclear and inconsistent meaning, calling to question the experiences and practices of hospital-basedalliative care providers. The purpose of this study was to understand the meaning of CMO as experienced by hospital-based palliative care providers.METHODS: Using hermeneutic phenomenological research, we investigated eight palliative care experts’ common experiences and shared practices of using CMO order sets in their hospital work settings. Data were…
Origen: The meaning of comfort measures only order sets for hospital-based palliative care providers – PubMed