Internal and emergency medicine
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Living in a hospice department is an intense experience for patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals. End-of-life care aims to conduct vulnerable dying patients towards a painless and peaceful death. The importance of a strong staff-patient relationship and the perspective of pain and suffering from patients has already been studied. ⋯ Predictably, terminally ill patients seem to fear pain and incoming death. Even though patients had everything they needed in the hospice, their main thoughts were always focused on human relationships. End-of-life medicine should improve the quality of time that each patient could spend with significant others to improve end-of-life care.
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Emergency departments (EDs) are high-risk places for Workplace Violence (WPV). In Italy, this phenomenon is scarcely investigated. The aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence, experiencing and perception of WPV in the general ED (GED), paediatric ED (PED) and obstetric-gynaecological ED (OGED) of the teaching hospital Azienda Ospedaliera in Padua (AOP). ⋯ Professionals think there are structural characteristics and risk factors that could be corrected. They do not know how to manage assaults and would deem it useful training meetings with experts. Our results regarding how staff perceive and experience violence in the ED concern a local situation, that nevertheless reflect current evidence about the topic of WPV which plagues EDs across the globe.