April bonus from your STTI library: Full-text articles on palliative care

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Check out these and other resources from the Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library.

During April, the Virginia Henderson Library (VHL) is offering free access to articles and other information on palliative care.

Resources include links to six articles from the EBSCO/CINAHL database; links to the VHL, online education and publications from the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International; and links to additional resources.

EBSCO/CINAHL articles (open to site registrants):

Bonebrake, D., Culver, C., Call, K., & Ward-Smith, P. (2010). Clinically differentiating palliative care and hospice. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 14(3), 273-275.
Campbell, L. (2011). Experiences of nurses practicing home-based palliative care in a rural South African setting. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 17(12), 593-598.
Holmes, S. (2011). Importance of nutrition in palliative care of patients with chronic disease. Primary Health Care, 21(6), 31-39.
Johnston, B. (2010). Can self-care become an integrated part of end-of-life care? Implications for palliative nursing. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 16(5), 212-214.
Kaasalainen, S., Brazil, K., Willison, K., Marshall, D., Taniguchi, A., Williams, A., & Wilson, D. M. (2011). Palliative care nursing in rural and urban community settings: a comparative analysis. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 17(7), 344-352.
McIlfatrick, S., Mawhinney, A., & Gilmour, F. (2010). Assessing the educational needs of palliative care link nurses. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 16(11), 555-559.

Registrants must comply with EBSCO’s copyright and terms of use.

The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) offers the following resources on palliative care:

The VHL repository contains 426 abstracts within the Registry of Nursing Research Community. Search under the subject heading of “palliative care.” No registration or login is required to search the database and view its contents.
STTI has published the following books on palliative care:
To Comfort Always: A Nurse's Guide to End-of-Life Care
Being Present: A Nurse's Resource for End-of-Life Communication
The following articles from STTI’s scholastic journals, Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing and Journal of Nursing Scholarship, are open access during April:
The latest evidence on palliative and end-of-life care with adults
Developing a parsimonious model for predicting completion of advance directives
Are nurses adequately prepared for end-of-life care?
The following articles on palliative care are open access in Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL)
Joint Commission launches palliative care certification
Everybody needs somebody: Compassionate companions ease final goodbye

Additional resources:

AARP – Providing comfort: Palliative care
AHRQ – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality – Partners in palliative care program: Slide presentation from the AHRQ 2008 Annual Conference
ANA – American Nurses Association – ANA releases revised scope and standards for nurses in hospice and palliative care
CACP – Center to Advance Palliative Care (website)
HPNA – Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (website)
NCPC – National Council for Palliative Care, UK (website)
NEJM – New England Journal of Medicine - Painful inequities — Palliative care in developing countries
Promoting Excellence: Advanced Practice Nursing: Pioneering Practices in Palliative Care (website)
PubMed – Article: Integrating palliative care in the ICU: The nurse in a leading role
WebMD – Palliative Care Center

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