This article explores barriers to informed decision making in health care, and it proposes palliative care as one means of responding to the challenge of a widespread lack of autonomy in decision making. Through an exploration of research in the fields of autonomy and palliative care, the...

Some nurses will say they didn't choose oncology … oncology chose them. When people ask what I do, their reaction to my response is usually the same: "I don't see how you can do that. It must be so depressing." However, if you were to ask my colleagues, the majority would agree that the rewards...

Purpose/Objectives: To quantify the characteristics of patients who die in the hospital from relapse after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT), explore palliative care integration and end-of-life (EOL) care, and benchmark standards of care. Design: Retrospective chart...

Purpose/Objectives: To identify and describe communication behaviors used by hospice nurses when eliciting and addressing concerns of patients with cancer and their caregivers. Design: Secondary analysis. Setting: Home hospice in Salt Lake City, UT. Sample: Audio recordings from seven patient and...