Generalists in palliative care and professionals with specialized expertise, including palliative care nurses, achieve high-quality palliative care. To strengthen their role, it is essential to understand the tasks palliative care nurses perform and their position within the organizations. We aim to …

BACKGROUND: Pain assessment is a necessary step in pain management in older people in palliative care. In older people, pain assessment can be challenging due to underreporting and atypical pain manifestations by other distressing symptoms. Anxiety, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, insomnia, dyspnoea, …

2025 ILC Annual International Conference , 16th & 17 June, 2025, Genoa, Italy, Global Collaboration,Local Action for Fundamentals of Care Innovation. Zie bladzijde 81. An international group of experts has joined forces for the further development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in relation to the Fundamentals …

Crying by healthcare professionals in the medical setting is a common but understudied phenomenon. We aimed to develop a questionnaire which measures the attitudes of parent towards crying pediatricians and pediatric nurses. We assessed reliability and validity in a group of parents of children who are …

Background: Transmural palliative care interventions aim to identify older persons with palliative care needs and timely provide advance care planning, symptom management, and coordination of care. Nurses can have an important role in these interventions; however, their expertise is currently underused. …

Background: Pain assessment is a necessary step in pain management in older people in palliative care. In older people, pain assessment can be challenging due to underreporting and atypical pain manifestations by other distressing symptoms. Anxiety, fatigue, loss of appetite, insomnia, dyspnoea, and …

Background: Palliative care patients desire more symptom management interventions that are complementary to their medical treatment. Within the multi-professional team, nurses could help support pain management with non-pharmacological interventions feasible for their practice and adaptable to palliative …

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is characterised by high tech and absence of intimacy and often lacks a structured palliative care approach for bereavement support for relatives. We developed practical tools for ICU-nurses in the Netherlands to support relatives of dying patients in the ICU.

Background Hospital admissions are common in the last phase of life. However, palliative care and advance care planning (ACP) are provided late or not at all during hospital admission. Aim To provide insight into the perceptions of in-hospital healthcare professionals concerning current and ideal practice …

Dit artikel is eerder gepubliccerd in het Nederlands Vlaams Tijdschrift voor Palliatieve Zorg, 2020-16 https://nvtpz.org/  Samenvatting (Nederlands) Het kwaliteitskader Palliatieve zorg beschrijft als standaard: Proactieve zorgplanning wordt tijdig en op passende wijze aan de orde gesteld, bij voorkeur …