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|February 24, 2001
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Visiting nurses provide essential human connection and emotional support, enabling personalized home terminal care. Addressing challenges in communication and resources ensures patients achieve their desired end-of-life experience.

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Area of Science:

  • Palliative Care
  • Oncology Nursing
  • End-of-Life Care

Context:

  • Initial challenges in home terminal care highlighted insufficient palliative and family support.
  • Experience with approximately 150 patients, including terminal cancer and those coexisting with cancer, informed current practices.
  • Home care involves complex interactions with medical staff, welfare services, patients, families, and social resources.

Purpose:

  • To explore the critical factors enabling effective home terminal care from a visiting nurse's perspective.
  • To identify and address systemic and interpersonal challenges in providing end-of-life care at home.
  • To emphasize the role of human connection and genuine emotional exchange in achieving patient-desired deaths.

Summary:

  • Visiting nurses facilitate home terminal care by fostering genuine human connection and emotional exchange.

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  • Overcoming communication barriers and coordinating resources are crucial for successful patient-centered end-of-life experiences.
  • Nurses' ability to provide warm, empathetic care, beyond traditional medical interventions, is key to honoring patient wishes.

    • Impact:

    • Improved understanding of the visiting nurse's role in facilitating dignified home deaths.
    • Highlights the importance of holistic, patient-centered approaches in terminal care.
    • Provides insights for healthcare systems to better support home-based end-of-life services.