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Peer reviewedTimmermans, Stefan – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1993
Analyzed how nurses deal with terminal and dying patients in two inpatient wards in Belgian general hospital. Observed that nurses often felt dissatisfied with their terminal caregiving. Suggests terminal care include specific physical, social, religious, and psychological services, given to terminal patient and family, to obtain as high a level…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Foreign Countries, Hospitals, Nurses
