Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing

"Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A nursing specialty concerned with care of patients facing serious or life-threatening illnesses. The goal of palliative nursing is to prevent and relieve suffering, and to support the best possible quality of life for patients and their families. Hospice nursing is palliative care for people in their final stages of life.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 36 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2022
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