A multidisciplinary approach to palliative transfusions at home
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Health care workers in Cornwall, England, supported a patient with advanced bone metastases in receiving a palliative blood transfusion in his home. The patient's condition was so painful that moving him would have caused great distress. The patient and his family also showed particular courage and ingenuity in their management of his condition, and their approach to the transfusion was to treat the occasion as a party. Good liaison between the health care bodies involved enabled the procedures and the family support to be thoroughly planned, and the transfusion proceeded with few problems.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1998
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An art therapy group in palliative cancer care
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A part-time art therapist is employed in the palliative care service connected with the general hospital in Ceredigion, Wales. Some sessions with patients are undertaken in the oncology ward, while others take place at the patient's home. There is a weekly art therapy group designed to function as a time and space for patients to communicate verbally and visually any element of their experience of illness. The group allows patients to raise issues regarded as too deep or too morbid to be raised in other contexts.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2000
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