Publications by authors named "Jayne Phillips"
Background: Spirituality is a patient need that requires special attention from the Pain and Palliative Care Service team. This quality improvement project aimed to provide spiritual assessment for all new outpatients with serious life-altering illnesses.
Measures: Percentage of new outpatients receiving spiritual assessment (Faith, Importance/Influence, Community, Address/Action in care, psychosocial evaluation, chaplain consults) at baseline and postinterventions.
The Bereavement Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center was established in 2005. The program makes contact with the next of kin on 4 occasions postnotification of death. The objective of this analysis was to evaluate program effectiveness for those individuals who we successfully made contact with on all 4 occasions (N = 39).
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- Some cancer survivors have reported undergoing significant positive changes in their lives, referred to as "life transforming," after their experience.
- Participants in a study used a self-guided approach involving practical actions, such as researching options and reflecting on their experiences, to achieve these improvements.
- These transformations often led to the discovery of new personal strengths and resources, proving beneficial in addressing challenges beyond cancer, highlighting the importance of experiential learning in understanding these changes.
A distressing complication for patients and families, gross hematuria at the end of life challenges hospice and palliative care clinicians to utilize skills in medical and nursing management, communication and clarification of patient goals, and relief of symptom burden. Massive hemorrhage in the genitourinary tract can radically alter the terminal trajectory for patients and necessitate intensive interventions aimed at promoting comfort. Here, a case of gross hematuria in an adult hospice patient serves to broaching decision-making challenges and management strategies.
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