The quality of district nursing care for dying patients.
During a project to explore the quality of district nursing care provided to patients with and without cancer, six district nurses in one community trust were interviewed. They acknowledged that the quality of their terminal care was dependent on whether patients were dying from cancer or from non-cancer diseases. This article describes how the project was undertaken, the methods, the results and the implications for district nursing.
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Anglia Polytechnic University, Chelmsford.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000592:standards*; D016526:Workload