Nurses' experiences of palliative end-of-life care in patients at risk of a carotid blowout syndrome: A qualitative exploration.

Purpose: Hospital nurses play an important role in providing palliative end-of-life care, for example for patients with carotid blowout. In such cases, dying is a severe event in which exsanguination occurs. Little is known about nurses' experiences regarding care to patients at risk of a carotid blowout.

Teamwork, clinical leadership skills and environmental factors that influence missed nursing care - A qualitative study on hospital wards.

Aim: To explore how nursing teams in clinical inpatient nursing hospital wards perform teamwork to prevent or reduce missed nursing care and how teamwork is influenced by clinical leadership skills and environmental factors.

Background: Earlier studies on missed nursing care identified teamwork and leadership skills as promising factors in inpatient care that can positively influence quality of care and reduce missed nursing care. The effective use of teamwork in hospitals requires understanding what it is, how it is performed by nursing teams and how it is influenced by clinical leadership skills and environmental factors.