[Serious game, a new approach for advance care planning with dialysis patients].

Due to the high morbidity and mortality with limited life expectancy of dialysis patients, it is essential to implement advance care planning in order to know patients' values and care preferences and respect their autonomy. However, advance care planning is rarely carried out, due to the difficulties in initiating end-of-life discussions, both by patients and healthcare professionals. The use of "serious games" in the form of card games has shown promise in supporting the implementation of advance care planning.

Venous leg ulcer recurrences - The relationship to self-efficacy, social support and quality of life - A mixed method study.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the occurrence of venous leg ulcer recurrence and the relationship with self-efficacy, social support and quality of life. Furthermore, we investigated the lived experiences of those patients and their understanding of why they developed a recurrence.

Design: We used a convergent parallel mixed method design consisting of a cohort and an interpretative phenomenological study arm.

Nurse-led patient-centred intervention to increase written advance directives for outpatients in early-stage palliative care: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial with an embedded explanatory qualitative study.

Introduction: Discussing the evolution of life-threatening diseases and end-of-life issues remains difficult for patients, relatives and professionals. Helping people discuss and formalise their preferences in end-of-life care, as planned in the Go Wish intervention, could reduce health-related anxiety in the advance care planning (ACP) and advance directive (AD) process. The aims of this study are (1) to test the effectiveness of the Go Wish intervention among outpatients in early-stage palliative care and (2) to understand the role of defence mechanisms in end-of-life discussions among nurses, patients and relatives.

Perceptions of inpatients and nurses towards the importance of nurses' caring behaviours in rehabilitation: A comparative study.

Aims: This study was conducted to describe and compare nurses' and inpatients' perceptions of caring attitudes and behaviours in rehabilitation.

Methods: A comparative descriptive design was used. Perceptions of caring attitudes and behaviours were compared between 34 nurses working in rehabilitation and 64 elderly patients, using the Caring Nurse Patient Inventory-23, to explore Watson's carative factors through four dimensions.

The lived experience of recurrence prevention in patients with venous leg ulcers: An interpretative phenomenological study.

Aim Of The Study: To explore patient understanding of why they develop a venous leg ulcer and how they can prevent recurrence.

Method: The methodological framework of the hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seventeen participants living with a venous leg ulcer from May 2017 to November 2018.

Caring Models in Geriatric Rehabilitation: An Integrative Review.

To promote excellence in care, person centered care based on humanistic values are essential. This integrative literature review summarizes the current research on the use of a caring model or approach in rehabilitation wards for elderly and explores the issues or benefits on patient's care or on patient-nurse interactions.

[Exploring and Responding to a Wish to Hasten Death of a patient with Advanced Illness].

It is not uncommon for patients with an advanced disease to express a desire to their physician to hasten their death. Recent studies show that the motivation of such a desire is multifactorial and multidimensional, including depression, physical, psycho-social and spiritual suffering, fears about the process of dying and/or misunderstandings about the options for end-of-life care. The objective of this paper is to propose to the physician how to explore the dimensions of this request and some elements to answer it.

Advance care planning for institutionalised older people: an integrative review of the literature.

Background: This integrative review of the literature describes the evolution in knowledge and the paradigm shift that is necessary to switch from advance directives to advance care planning.

Aims And Objectives: It presents an analysis of concepts, trends, models and experiments that enables identification of the best treatment strategies, particularly for older people living in nursing homes.

Design: Based on 23 articles published between 1999 and 2012, this review distinguishes theoretical from empirical research and presents a classification of studies based on their methodological robustness (descriptive, qualitative, associative or experimental).