The emotional effects on professional interpreters of interpreting palliative care conversations for adult patients: A rapid review.

Background: Professional interpreters working in palliative contexts improve patient care. Whilst literature identifies psychological distress in other healthcare professionals, research into emotional effects on professional interpreters in this highly emotive setting is limited. Isolating emotional responses may enable targeted interventions to enhance interpreter use and improve wellbeing.

Attitudes of ward nurses towards the administration of 'as required' injectable medications for symptom control at the end of life.

It is recognised good practice to prescribe 'as required' parenteral medication (ARPM) to provide individualised symptom control in the final days of life. The decision to administer the medication and, sometimes, to decide the dose, usually lies with the nurse. To explore attitudes towards administration of ARPM at end of life (EOL) among hospital nurses.

Advance Care Planning for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer: A Retrospective Case Note Audit from a Regional Specialist Center in the United Kingdom.

The extent of Advance Care Planning (ACP) among Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) cancer patients is not well characterized. This retrospective case note audit scrutinized the records of all AYA patients (aged 16-25 years) known to a regional specialist center in the United Kingdom, and who died between 2013 and 2019, for evidence of ACP. Eighty-four patients were included.

Management of endocrine conditions at the end of life.

An important facet to end-of-life care is deprescribing. This can be challenging when reviewing life-sustaining endocrine medications but, unlike for diabetes, there is no national guidance to support patients and clinicians faced with care planning. This article reviews the limited current evidence to highlight areas for further discussion and research with the aim of moving towards consensus opinion.

Care of the dying: how do we replace the Liverpool Care Pathway?

Introduction: Death is an inescapable certainty of life. Variability in care for dying persons, however, is present. The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) sought to guide care for the last days of life but was phased out after intense scrutiny.