POMSNAME: an aide-mémoire to improve the assessment and documentation of palliative care - a longitudinal project.

Background: Evidence-based palliative care requires comprehensive assessment and documentation. However, palliative care is not always systemically documented - this can have implications for team communication and patient wellbeing. The aim of this project was to determine the effectiveness of an aide-mémoire - POMSNAME - to prompt the comprehensive assessment of the following domains by clinicians: pain, orientation and oral health, mobility, social situation, nausea and vomiting, appetite, medication, and elimination.

'When a patient chooses to die at home, that's what they want… comfort, home': Brilliance in community-based palliative care nursing.

Introduction: To redress the scholarly preoccupation with gaps, issues, and problems in palliative care, this article extends previous findings on what constitutes brilliant palliative care to ask what brilliant nursing practices are supported and promoted.

Methods: This study involved the methodology of POSH-VRE, which combines positive organisational scholarship in healthcare (POSH) with video-reflexive ethnography (VRE). From August 2015 to May 2017, inclusive, nurses affiliated with a community health service who delivered palliative care, contributed to this study as co-researchers (n = 4) or participants (n = 20).