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2012 Año Europeo Del Envejecimiento Activo Y La Solidaridad Intergeneracional Una Mirada Multidimensional A Un Fenómeno Global, Diego A. Bernardini Dec 2013

2012 Año Europeo Del Envejecimiento Activo Y La Solidaridad Intergeneracional Una Mirada Multidimensional A Un Fenómeno Global, Diego A. Bernardini

Diego Bernardini MD, PhD

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Intergrative Review Of Palliative Care In End Stage Heart Failure, Joyce K. Kutin Jan 2013

Intergrative Review Of Palliative Care In End Stage Heart Failure, Joyce K. Kutin

Joyce K Kutin RN, MSN, MOL

The aim of this integrative literature review is to explore and discuss palliative care placement within the trajectory of heart failure in the end stage process. After an extensive search through 200 peer-reviewed studies published from 2009-2013 in the following databases: CINAHL, Academic Search Elite, Health Source Consumer Source Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MEDLINE, Academic Collection (EBSCOhost), seven articles meeting the constraints were chosen.. Common themes of these studies concern symptom management, medication administration, and decision-making tools for assessing patient centered needs and future research regarding effective implementation of palliative care integration in end stage heart failure patients. Nurses …