Spiritual perspectives of emergency medicine doctors and nurses in caring for end-of-life patients: A mixed-method study

Due to decreasing birth rates and increasing life expectancies, ageing population is currently a global issue [1]. This results in an increased number of terminally ill elderly patients being sent to Emergency Departments (EDs) [2,3]. Apart from elderly patients, other patients with terminally illness, such as those with oncological diseases, neurological disorders or advanced organ failures are also presented to the ED [4]. Some of their ED visits aimed to seek symptomatic management of their end-stage illness [5].
Source: International Emergency Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research