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Category Archives: Nursing
Nurses are the bridge of healthcare: Celebrating the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020 #nurses2020 #midwives2020
For the first time ever, the nations of the world unite to celebrate the benefits that nursing and midwifery bring to the health of the global population. To mark this world first, the European Association for Palliative Care is delighted … Continue reading
Building a palliative care research career across borders: An interview with Dr Geana Paula Kurita, winner of the 2019 EAPC Post-doctoral Award
LIVE FROM THE 16TH EAPC WORLD CONGRESS IN BERLIN … Highlights of every EAPC Congress are the EAPC Researcher Awards, which recognise and support the work of scientists and clinicians who make an outstanding contribution to palliative care research. We … Continue reading
Dementia, what is the role of the Specialist Palliative Care Service?
Jacinta Kelly, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Community Palliative Care Team, North West Hospice, Sligo, and Dympna O’Connell, Lecturer, Department of Nursing at St Angela’s College, Sligo, Ireland, explain the background to their longer article published in the January/February issue of the … Continue reading
Namaste – combining compassionate nursing care with meaningful activity for people with advanced dementia
Min Stacpoole is a nurse researcher who formerly worked in the Care Homes Project Team at St Christopher’s Hospice, London, UK. Inspired by experiences from the US, the hospice set up a research study to look at the effect of … Continue reading
Are genograms a fundamental aspect of specialist palliative care assessment?
Louise Charnock, Palliative Clinical Nurse Specialist, Southport & Ormskirk NHS Hospital Trust, UK, explains the background to her longer article that is published in the March/April issue of the European Journal of Palliative Care. Almost two years ago I set out to … Continue reading
Translating research into clinical practice: Thoughts on winning an EAPC Early Researcher Award
On 9 May at the 14th EAPC World Congress in Copenhagen, Dr Julie Kinley, Nurse Consultant for Care Homes, St Christopher’s Hospice, London, UK, received second prize in the 2015 European Association for Palliative Care Early Researcher Award. Here, she … Continue reading
Honouring the spirit within: the Namaste care programme for people with dementia at the end of their lives
Dr Jo Hockley, Nurse Consultant, and Min Stacpoole, Nurse Researcher, Care Homes Project Team at St Christopher’s Hospice. Namaste… I think we all know it is an Indian greeting but do we know what it means? Min and I didn’t … Continue reading
