A study of the lived experiences of registered nurses who have provided end-of-life care within an intensive care unit (2014)
Journal Article
Holms, N., Milligan, S., & Kydd, A. (2014). A study of the lived experiences of registered nurses who have provided end-of-life care within an intensive care unit. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 20(11), 549-556. https://doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2014.20.11.549

Background: End-of-life care (EOLC) in the intensive care unit (ICU) has received little attention in the literature in comparison to the considerable amount of existing literature available on EOLC in other areas of nursing. The ethos of the ICU is... Read More about A study of the lived experiences of registered nurses who have provided end-of-life care within an intensive care unit.

An exploration of palliative care provision in Scottish care homes (2012)
Journal Article
Reid, L., Snowden, A., & Kydd, A. (2012). An exploration of palliative care provision in Scottish care homes. British Journal of Nursing, 21(1), 8-15. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2012.21.1.8

This paper suggests that there is an imbalance between the ideal and the actual palliative care provision for some older people living and dying in care homes in Scotland. Successive studies demonstrate that care home residents are increasingly frail... Read More about An exploration of palliative care provision in Scottish care homes.