Archive: Scholarship

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Scholarship

“Ambiguity in End-of-Life Care Terminology—What Do We Mean by ‘Comfort Care?'”

Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne M. Kelemen explore the ambiguity in the terminology associated with end-of-life care, highlighting the need to talk about what “comfort care”…

September 4, 2018

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Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories. Thought on the Edge

This book, edited by Nicoletta Pireddu, and with contributors from diverse cultural and scholarly backgrounds and based in three different continents, participates in the ongoing…

August 28, 2018

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“Rethinking cures in Jesse Ball’s A Cure for Suicide”

Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Ann Jurecic delve into Jesse Ball's A Cure for Suicide to explore the experience of loneliness in the present, and the need to better address its social…

March 31, 2018

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“Post-Transplantation Palliative Care: Misconceptions and Disincentives”

Dr. Michael Pottash argues for the value of providing palliative care to transplant recipients, which faces two major barriers: misconceptions about the goals of palliative care,…

January 15, 2018

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“Examining the Artist-Patient Relationship in Palliative Care. A Thematic Analysis of Artist Reflections on Encounters with Palliative Patients”

Julia Langley and her co-authors study the artist-patient encounter and how artists can function in the palliative interdisciplinary model of.…

December 22, 2017

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“The Return to Literature—Making Doctors Matter in the New Era of Medicine”

As medicine faces rapid changes in our current era, which include the widespread use of artificial intelligence, it is also expected for the nature of physicians' jobs to change,…

December 14, 2017

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“Visual Intelligence Education as an Innovative Interdisciplinary Approach for Advancing Communication and Collaboration Skills in Nursing Practice”

Julia Langley and her co-authors made a pilot intervention seeking to integrate visual intelligence skills into nursing education. The pilot suggests that teaching visual…

December 7, 2017

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“Failing Better: A New Paradigm of Care”

Dr. Hunter Groninger introduces a Heart Failure Reviews symposium issue that aims to call attention to the rapidly developing interface between heart failure and palliative.…

July 22, 2017

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“Integrating Spiritual Care into Palliative Consultation: A Case Study in Expanded Practice”

Dr. Hunter Groninger and his co-authors describe the role of a palliative care chaplain embedded within the interdisciplinary palliative care team, demonstrating how the role of…

May 26, 2017

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“Poor Prognostication: Hidden Meanings in Word Choices”

The absence of a standardised language to express prognostic information can be a barrier for providing realistic information to patients and their families. The team of…

April 21, 2017