ArticleJournal of clinical nursing2010
Nurses' perspectives on feeding decisions for nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
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- Views and Experiences of People With Dementia, Informal Caregivers and Professionals on Eating and Drinking Difficulties: A Qualitative Systematic Review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Nutrition and hydration for people living with dementia near the end of life: A qualitative systematic review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2021Pooled it
- Mapping and understanding the decision-making process for providing nutrition and hydration to people living with dementia: a systematic review.BMC geriatrics · 2020Pooled it
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- Factors Influencing Decision Making for Gastrostomy Tube Placement for People Living with Serious Illness: A Scoping Review.Journal of palliative medicine · 2025Article
- Association of Nursing Home Organizational Culture and Staff Perspectives With Variability in Advanced Dementia Care: The ADVANCE Study.JAMA internal medicine · 2022Article
- "A good death but there was all this tension around"- perspectives of residential managers on the experience of delivering end of life care for people living with dementia.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- Person-centered Feeding Care: A Protocol to Re-introduce Oral Feeding for Nursing Home Patients with Tube Feeding.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2016Article
- Challenges in efficacy research: the case of feeding alternatives in patients with dementia.Journal of advanced nursing · 2014Article
- The importance of patient-provider communication in end-of-life care.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2012Article
- Feasibility of a web-based dementia feeding skills training program for nursing home staff.Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)Article
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Abstract
aimTo develop a broad understanding of nursing beliefs, knowledge and roles in feeding decisions for nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
backgroundConcern is growing about the common use of feeding tubes in nursing home residents with advanced dementia. Nurses can play an important role in providing information and guiding family members through difficult feeding decisions. Little is known about nurses' perspectives on feeding decisions.
designQualitative descriptive.
methodsIn-depth semi-structured interviews of 11 licensed nurses who were experienced in caring for nursing home residents with dementia.
resultsAnalysis of the interview transcripts revealed three themes: insufficient empirical information, ambiguous role in feeding decisions and uncertainty about moral agency in decisions about the placement of feeding tubes.
conclusionsDespite views that family members would benefit from guidance in decisions regarding the placement of feeding tubes, nurses were, nevertheless, reluctant to become involved in these difficult decisions. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: If nurses are to guide family members in decisions about the use of feeding tubes, they need more education about evidence-based practice as well as support in exercising their nursing responsibilities.
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