![]() ![]() or years.” Until that day of our own flying away, and beholding our loved one again, in that Beautiful Paradise. It quiets the grief which has moaned inside of us, at least some, every single one of those bittersweet hours, days, weeks. ![]() It also envelopes us in a warm cloak of acceptance and peace that eases our own pain. Despite advances in treatment, cancer remains the leading cause of disease-related death in children (Siegel, Miller, & Jemal, 2018). Finally, the release is ushered all the way in, to comfort and carry our loved one to that Better Place. That fear-ridden, irreversible release lingers in the doorway, but hesitates for reasons we don't understand, leaving us to weep a special cocktail of tears made of angst and gratitude, permeating us with some of the deepest emotions we will ever know. Attempts can be made to modify this attitude in caregivers by means of training programmes and stimulating awareness of an adequate professional approach.“Three, 300, or 3,000 - these are the number of unknown hours, days, a week, a year, or a decade, each far too precious little and yet, poignantly too much at the same time, to see an irrevocably declined loved one languish and suffer. We conclude that nursing attitudes can be analysed by methods such as that used in this study. No differences were observed between nurses working in hospitals and those working in hospices. Understanding why some terminally ill patients desire a hastened death has become an important issue in palliative care and the debate regarding legalization of assisted suicide. The positivity in attitude decreased from morning to night shift. Depression, hopelessness, and desire for hastened death in terminally ill patients with cancer. A more positive attitude was observed in older caregivers and in women. The study revealed a general slight negative trend in attitudes towards the terminally ill patient. 1 3 None the less, highly publicised cases continue to occur of patients dying in distress with uncontrolled symptoms and relatives being unsupported at this vulnerable time in. Affiliation 1 Palliative Care Center Medical College of Wisconsin 9200 West Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53226, PMID: 22946577 DOI: 10.1089. Data were analysed by the Associative Semantic Field Differential method by means of the computer programme CONTEXT and a quantitative evaluation of the degree of attitudes positivity was obtained. Evidence based guidelines now exist to help with the care of people who are dying, including guidelines for symptom control, psychosocial support, and bereavement care. Suicide attempts in the terminally ill 210 J Palliat Med. One hundred and seventy-five nurses working in 18 hospitals and hospices in Catalonia, Spain were included in the study. ![]() The aim of the study presented in this paper was to identify the nurses' attitude to the terminally ill patient in Catalonia, Spain, and the relationship of this attitude to different socio-demographic data (type of centre, shift, years of experience, age and sex) by means of a new quantitative method based on the free word-association test. However, all have used methods with several limitations. Several studies have shown a stereotyped negative attitude in nurses towards terminally ill patients. The care of terminally ill patients is a challenge for nurses that has raised special interest in recent years. ![]()
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