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Complementary And Alternative Medicine In Hospice And Palliative Care: A Systematic Review, Yvette S. Zeng, Wang, Kristina E. Ward, Anne L. Hume

Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Context: The aim of palliative care is to improve quality of life for patients with serious illnesses by treating their symptoms and adverse effects. Hospice care also aims for this for patients with a life expectancy of six months or less. When conventional therapies do not provide adequate symptom management or produce their own adverse effects, patients, families, and caregivers may prefer complementary or alternative approaches in their care.

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to evaluate the available evidence on the use of complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) in hospice and palliative care and to summarize …

Nurse Practitioners’ And Certified Nurse Midwives’ Experiences Providing Comprehensive Early Abortion Care In New England, Katherine Elisabeth Simmonds

Open Access Dissertations

Access to safe abortion care has been linked to better maternal and child health outcomes (Sedgh et al., 2012) and identified as essential for advancing women’s economic and social equality (Bengsch, 2015; Lang, 2013). Around the world, nurses, including nurse practitioners (NPs) and certified nurse midwives (CNMs), are integral members of the health care teams that provide care to women considering or electing to have an abortion. Evidence supports NPs and CNMs as safe and effective providers of comprehensive early abortion care, and acceptable to patients (Barnard, Kim, Park, & Ngo, 2015; Kopp Kallner et al., 2015; Weitz et al., …