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| Resumo: | Background: Nurses have an important role in maintaining a patient's nutrition near the end of life. Aims: To define nursing nutrition strategies with the person near the end of life and their families; systematise the elements to be considered in artificial nutrition decision-making and evaluate the nursing interventions' influence on therapeutic obstinacy risk. Methods: A sample of 11 articles were selected and the results considered strategies to promote oral feeding before artificial nutrition; the follow-up of the health-disease process by nurses and described the nurse's role as a privileged patient advocate in the defence of the ethical principles of decision-making. These principles consider symptomatology, prognosis, psychology and the emotional significance of nutrition. Conclusion: Nurses are qualified professionals with a critical role in the patient's care due to the proximity they have with the patient; the evidence seems to show a relationship between nursing interventions and the reduction of the risk of therapeutic obstinacy; however, there are no studies in this specific area. |
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| Autores principais: | Afonso, Tânia dos Santos |
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| Outros Autores: | Veludo, Filipa; Sousa, Patrícia Pontífice |
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| Assunto: | Integrative review Nursing Nutritional support Terminal care Therapeutic obstinacy |
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| Ano: | 2019 |
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| País: | Portugal |
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
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| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
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| Instituição associada: | Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
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| Idioma: | inglês |
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| Origem: | Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
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