Work environmental factors associated with compassion satisfaction and end-of-life care quality among nurses in general wards, palliative care units, and home care settings: A cross-sectional survey.

Background: Nurses providing end-of-life care experience not only burnout and compassion fatigue, but also positive effects such as compassion satisfaction. Nurses' compassion satisfaction was shown to be related to job satisfaction, work engagement, and nurse caring. Studies in emergency departments, intensive care units, oncology wards, and general wards have identified work environmental factors associated with nurses' compassion satisfaction, but no similar studies have been conducted in palliative care units or home care settings.

Association of a home-based nursing service during chemotherapy with the transfer to home care immediately after the last chemotherapy treatment in patients with advanced cancer.

Background: The appropriate timing of introducing the home-based nursing service to patients with advanced cancer has not been clarified. This study conducted a retrospective cohort study to investigate the associations of the early utilization of the home-based nursing service during chemotherapy with the place of care immediately after the last chemotherapy treatment in patients with advanced cancer.

Methods: Among the patients referred to the palliative care team of the University of Tsukuba Hospital between January 2018 and December 2019, patients with advanced cancer undergoing chemotherapy or before the start of chemotherapy at referral were included.