Thoughts on death and dying when living with haemodialysis approaching end of life.

Aims And Objectives: To describe inner thoughts and feelings relating to death and dying when living with haemodialysis approaching end of life.

Background: Patients who undergo maintenance haemodialysis suffer a significant symptom burden and an impaired quality of life. The high mortality rate in these patients indicates that about one-fourth of them are in their last year of life, suggesting the presence of death and dying in the haemodialysis unit.

Living with haemodialysis when nearing end of life.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe and to elucidate the meanings of being severely ill living with haemodialysis when nearing end of life.

Introduction: To have end stage renal disease and to be treated with maintenance haemodialysis implies being dependent on lifelong treatment. Several studies have reported that these patients suffer a high symptom burden and an impaired quality of life due to both disease and treatment.

Dignity not fully upheld when seeking health care: experiences expressed by individuals suffering from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

Aim: The principle of human dignity has assumed importance in ethics and constitutional law throughout the 20th century in the Western world. It calls for respect of each individual as unique, and of treating him or her as a subject, never as a mere object. As such, the principle constitutes an ethical cornerstone in health care.

Swedish Registered Nurses' incentives to use nursing diagnoses in clinical practice.

Aims And Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe Registered Nurses' incentives to use nursing diagnoses in clinical practice.

Background: The use of nursing diagnoses is scarce in Swedish patient records. However, there are hospital wards were all nurses formulate and use nursing diagnoses in their daily work.

Patients' experiences of living with oesophageal cancer.

Aims: The aim of this study is to describe patients' experiences of living with oesophageal cancer and how they seek information.

Background: Oesophageal cancer is a devastating disease with poor prognosis. Nursing care for individuals with oesophageal cancer requires increased knowledge of how they experience illness and how it affects them.

Autonomy and integrity: upholding older adult patients' dignity.

Aim: The aim of this study was to deepen understanding of the relationship between autonomy and integrity in interactions between patients and individual health care workers in real-life care situations.

Method: The data reported here are from a 6- and 12-month follow-up of the teaching of ethics to health care professionals working with older people. The data collection method used was participant observation.

Confirming older adult patients' views of who they are and would like to be.

This article reveals a 91-year-old cognitively intact man's lived experiences of being cared for in a geriatric context in which the majority of the patients were cognitively impaired. A narrative patient story was analysed phenomenologically. The findings indicate that this patient's basic needs for ethical care were not met.