Caring for families of the terminally ill in Malaysia from palliative care nurses' perspectives.

Aims And Objectives: To describe the process that nurses experienced in engaging with families in Malaysian palliative care settings and the challenges they faced.

Background: In palliative care settings, nurses and the terminally ill person's family members interact very closely with each other. It is important for nurses to work with families to ensure that the care of the terminally ill person is optimised.

Nurse-family interaction in Malaysian palliative care settings: a focused literature review.

Background: Palliative care in Malaysia developed in the 1990s to improve the quality of life of people with advanced cancer. Like many other countries, Malaysia faces its own challenges in providing palliative care to patients and their families. In Malaysian culture, families play a significant part in providing care to the dying.