The integration of palliative care and critical care: one vision, one voice
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North AmericaPublished 1 June 2002
Cynda Hylton Rushton, Michael A. Williams, Kathleen Hartman Sabatier
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Nurses in all practice settings and specialties are challenged to integrate quality palliative care into patient care, with help of the Nursing Leadership Academy for End-of-Life Care.
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As technological advances transform health care and the American population ages, care at the end of life (EOL) assumes ever-greater significance. Nurses in all practice settings and specialties are challenged to integrate quality palliative care into patient care. Today, this imperative is unifying the nursing profession, with help of the Nursing Leadership Academy for End-of-Life Care.
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