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Article summary

The concept of hospice and palliative care is relatively new to Taiwan. However implementing the hermeneutic, phenomenologic approach this study highlighted conscious experiences and events /situations. The end of life patients and the role of Hospice nurses in Taiwan brought significant results. Hospice nurses in the current study based the choice on many aspects, including an expectation of serving a higher quality of holistic care to dying patients and families, the humanitarian aspect of hospice care, and a sense of a calling or mission. One Hospice nurse of Hospice care recalled that when she began her work in ...