Dialysis nurses discussing advance care planning and death and dying with patients

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Dialysis nurses discussing advance care planning and death and dying with patients

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BACKGROUND Dialysis nurses in New Zealand look after dialysis patients dealing with a chronic life-limiting illness: end stage kidney disease. The nurses often develop close relationships with their patients and become involved in discussions about death and dying with them and their families. These discussions are often awkward and nurses may not think they are the right people to have the discussions. Previous overseas studies have shown that dialysis patients and their families want to hav...

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Research paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2017

Creator

Hay, Sandra

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6326

Related subjects

New Zealand / dialysis nurses / dialysis patients / advance care planning (ACP) / kidney disease / renal disease / death and dying / interviews / Health sciences / Nursing / Biomedical and clinical sciences / Clinical sciences / Nephrology and urology

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