Graduate Students’ Reflections on Elder and End-of-Life Care for Prisoners

Abstract

The focus of this report was graduate nursing students’ reflections on elder and end-of-life care for prisoners. The personal reflections of 21 graduate nursing students who attended a presentation by Susan J. Loeb on October 26, 2016 were included in this report. The title of the presentation was “Enhancing End-of-Life Care for Prisoners Through Partnering With the Prison Community.” The student essays were synthesized to construct a summary essay, from which four themes were identified: aging in prison, dying in prison, ethical and professional issues in the elder and end-of-life care of prisoners, and ethical and professional issues in research involving elderly and end-of-life care of prisoners. These findings were interpreted from a global perspective in light of two different nursing perspectives: the humanbecoming tradition and the science of unitary human beings.

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eldercare end-of-life humanbecoming prisoners science of unitary human beings

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