Add to ORKGBackground: Doctors often find dialogues about death difficult. In Norway, 45% of deaths take place in nursing homes. Newly qualified medical doctors serve as house officers in nursing homes during internship. Little is known about how nursing homes can become useful sites for learning about end-of-life care. The aim of this study was to explore newly qualified doctors’ learning experiences with end-of-life care in nursing homes, especially focusing on dialogues about death. Methods: House officers in nursing homes (n = 16) participated in three focus group interviews. Interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed with systematic text condensation. Lave & Wenger’s theory about situated learning was used to support ...
Background: Global demographic changes are resulting in an ageing population with increasingly compl...
Nursing homes are often places where older persons “come to die.” Despite this, death and dying are ...
Residents in training are first-line physicians in hospital settings and they are in the process of ...
Background: Doctors often find dialogues about death difficult. In Norway, 45% of deaths take place ...
In Norway, nearly fifty percent of all deaths occur in nursing homes. The last period of life in oth...
BACKGROUND: Palliative care should be provided, irrespective of setting to all patients facing a lif...
BACKGROUND: Palliative care should be provided, irrespective of setting to all patients facing a lif...
Background: Nurses continuously meets and cares for dying patients, which can be perceived as both r...
Background: Acute hospitals are increasingly the place where care is provided at end of life and the...
Background: Despite a majority preferring not to die in hospital and health policies aimed at increa...
Background Ethically challenging critical events and decisions are common in nursing...
Dying in older persons precedes often by a prolonged period of frailty and multimorbidity. The globa...
Background: Care of the dying patient is an intrinsic part of the role of Foundation Year doctors (F...
Nursing homes are often places where older persons amp;ldquo;come to die.amp;rdquo; Despite this, de...
Abstract Background: End-of-life care has become the focus of most health care organizations due to ...
Background: Global demographic changes are resulting in an ageing population with increasingly compl...
Nursing homes are often places where older persons “come to die.” Despite this, death and dying are ...
Residents in training are first-line physicians in hospital settings and they are in the process of ...
Background: Doctors often find dialogues about death difficult. In Norway, 45% of deaths take place ...
In Norway, nearly fifty percent of all deaths occur in nursing homes. The last period of life in oth...
BACKGROUND: Palliative care should be provided, irrespective of setting to all patients facing a lif...
BACKGROUND: Palliative care should be provided, irrespective of setting to all patients facing a lif...
Background: Nurses continuously meets and cares for dying patients, which can be perceived as both r...
Background: Acute hospitals are increasingly the place where care is provided at end of life and the...
Background: Despite a majority preferring not to die in hospital and health policies aimed at increa...
Background Ethically challenging critical events and decisions are common in nursing...
Dying in older persons precedes often by a prolonged period of frailty and multimorbidity. The globa...
Background: Care of the dying patient is an intrinsic part of the role of Foundation Year doctors (F...
Nursing homes are often places where older persons amp;ldquo;come to die.amp;rdquo; Despite this, de...
Abstract Background: End-of-life care has become the focus of most health care organizations due to ...
Background: Global demographic changes are resulting in an ageing population with increasingly compl...
Nursing homes are often places where older persons “come to die.” Despite this, death and dying are ...
Residents in training are first-line physicians in hospital settings and they are in the process of ...