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Department Of Family And Consumer Sciences Newsletter, Fall 2012, Illinois State University, Department Of Family And Consumer Sciences

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Newsletter

Newsletter of the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences

Spiritual Care Interventions To Improve The Quality Of Life In Patients With Advanced Cancer Receiving Palliative Care, Maria Ballen-Sanchez

HIM 1990-2015

Title: Spiritual Care Interventions and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Care Background: Despite the evidence supporting spiritual care in nursing and an increased quality of life among patients, patients feel that their spiritual needs are not being supported by medical professionals. Nurses agree that the role they play is significant in addressing the needs of cancer patients; however, they feel that they lack the knowledge for addressing spirituality concerns at the end of life. The purpose of this study is to identify spiritual care interventions that nurses can implement to improve quality of life (QOL) in patients …

The Effect Of Heart Failure Education On Intermediate Care Unit Nursing Staff's Knowledge Of Heart Failure, Self-Care, And Best Practice Guidelines, Carol Budgin

Evidence-Based Practice Project Reports

Heart failure (HF) is a chronic disease affecting nearly six million people in the United States with an annual cost of nearly 33 billion dollars. If nurses are inadequately prepared to care for and/or educate patients with HF, evidence-based (EB) nursing care will be suboptimal and hospital readmission rates with the subsequent increased costs for care will continue to soar. To address their higher-than-national average HF readmission rates, an EB nursing project was implemented at a local, urban community hospital to assess intermediate care unit (IMCU) nursing staff’s knowledge of HF, selfcare, and best practice guidelines. The Rossworm & Larrabee …

Two Cultures Of Caring: A Comparative Study, Lisa Armstrong, Chistina Polito

Honors Theses and Capstones

There is much that the UK and the US could and should learn from each other to understand the quality of end-of-life care, through comparison of practice, analysis of care patterns and via original research (Higginson, 2005, p.170). Although comparisons between end-of-life care in the United Kingdom and United States have demonstrated similarities and disparities in many contexts, there is little evidence of research that directly compares nursing perspectives between the two Atlantic partners. This research explores nurse’s perceptions and experiences of caring for people within a hospice context and identifies themes of commonalities and disparities in theory and practice, …

Music Therapy To Sever The Silence Of A Childhood Holocaust Survivor, Amy Clements-Cortés

Music Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Reiki: A Complementary, Biofield Therapy For Management Of Postoperative Pain, Robin Toms

Biennial Convention (CONV)

There is increasing interest in complementary and alternative therapies that do not rely on expensive, invasive technology, and are holistic in focus. Such therapies could improve pain management in the poorest of countries globally. Research has shown the benefits of combining conventional, Western, pain management with CAM (Olson, 2003; Gillespie, 2007; Olson, 2003; Vitale, 2006 ;). Reiki, a complementary therapy, is a form of energy therapy in which the focus of the practitioner, with or without light touch, is believed to access universal energy sources that can assist in balancing the biofield and strengthening the body's ability to heal itself …

The Role Of Race In End-Of-Life Care, Barbara A. Noah

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Race In End-Of-Life Care, Barbara A. Noah

Faculty Scholarship

This essay focuses on one important aspect of racial disparities that has received comparatively little attention in the legal literature--the existence and causes of racial differences in end-of-life decision making and in the utilization of palliative and hospice care. African Americans and other racial minorities in the United States utilize palliative care and hospice less frequently than white Americans. These minority populations also tend to resist advance care planning and instead opt to receive more life-prolonging care at the end of life, even when quality of life and prognosis are poor. After a lifetime of limited access to health care …

Choosing Home For Someone Else: Guardian Residential Decision-Making, Naomi Karp, Erica Wood

Utah Law Review

Sue had lived in her own home for fifty years but recently lost it due to financial exploitation by her daughter. She wanted to live as independently as possible and to avoid living in a nursing home. The public guardianship program found her an affordable apartment in a senior residence, and arranged for in-home care, transportation, and visiting nurses when needed. Several elderly tenants in the same building used the same in-home care staff, so the hours were easier to work out. The guardianship program also sought restitution from the daughter. A fifty-three-year-old man with an intellectual disability was injured …

Palliative Care And Hospice: Opportunities To Improve Care For The Sickest Patients, Kathleen Tschantz Unroe, Diane E. Meier

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

The article discusses how palliative care and hospice services address the quality and cost concerns in the U.S. health care system. By focusing on symptom management, coordination among providers, and improved transitions of care, the services meet the needs of the sickest persons at lower costs. The author suggests putting in place the right leadership and resources and strengthening the workforce to successfully expand the programs.

The Mediating Effect Of Distress Caused By Constipation On Predictors Of Quality Of Life Of Hospice Patients With Cancer., Abdel Alkhalouf

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Abstract

The Mediating Effect of Distress Caused by Constipation on Predictors of Quality of Life of Hospice Patients with Cancer.

Key positive outcomes for hospice patients include the prevention and alleviation of physical and psychological distress, maintenance of physical and mental functioning and all aspects of quality of life. This research used secondary analysis of previously gathered data to answer new research questions with alternative strategies to examine relationships not previously analyzed. The researchers collected data from 717 cancer patients who had been admitted to one of two private hospices. The aim of their experimental intervention was to define the …