End-of-Life Care and Nursing
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 50
Special Issue Editors
Interests: palliative care; end-of-life care; urological oncology; drug tumor therapy; endourology and urolithiasis
Interests: palliative care; end-of-life care; pain management; symptom control; ethics consultation; end-of-life conversation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
End-of-life care is a universally important but still often neglected topic. Talking about death and dying and planning for the final phase of life are challenging for patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals. Nevertheless, it is important to consider the patient’s expectations and wishes to ensure that they can be respected, particularly if the patient loses their ability to communicate. This is especially important for nursing staff who interact with the patients and their relatives even more closely than physicians involved in care for the terminally ill.
The implications and challenges of this topic are multifaceted. While the issue itself is universal, there are considerable cultural, religious, and personal differences around the world and even within individual countries which influence the way we as healthcare providers deal with patients and relatives. Furthermore, our options are often constrained by the limitations of our respective healthcare systems. There are also aspects of palliative and end-of-life care that are specific to certain clinical specialties and diseases that require expert management.
In this Special Issue, we are glad to provide our readers with novel insights into the topic of end-of-life care and nursing. Our aim is to shed light on this issue from the perspective of different healthcare settings and cultures, as well as different disease-specific challenges.
We are delighted to launch this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and invite all experts in the field—clinicians and researchers—around the world to submit their work for consideration. Manuscript formats can vary from literature reviews (systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses or narrative reviews) to original research. We particularly welcome multidisciplinary contributions from all fields of end-of-life care and studies with strong implications for practice.
Dr. Hendrik Heers
Dr. Christian Volberg
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- end-of-life care
- palliative care
- nursing
- oncology
- quality of life
- hospice
