Journal of clinical nursing
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This study examines the usability and effectiveness of virtual reality in reducing pain in wound-care procedures for pediatric burn patients in Taiwan. ⋯ This study is significant since it demonstrates a difference in the child's response to pain based on the nature of presence and distraction. Moreover, given the evidence that a decrease in anxiety was experienced after the dressing change with virtual reality intervention, timing of using the virtual reality intervention before the child develops conditioning anxiety and anticipated pain for the procedure would be of importance.
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(i) Explore the meaning of comfort care for hospice nurses. (ii) Provide an understanding of how this work is pursued in the hospice setting. (iii) Examine the means by which hospice nurses provide comfort to hospice patients. ⋯ These findings offer insights to nurses in both hospice and other settings; they give a number of perspectives on the nature of 'comfort care' and the meanings attached to it by experienced hospice nurses'.