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Robert Sheppard
Researcher at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
Publications - 4
Citations - 213
Robert Sheppard is an academic researcher from St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton. The author has contributed to research in topics: Palliative care & Reminiscence. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 168 citations.
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Personalizing Death in the Intensive Care Unit: The 3 Wishes Project: A Mixed-Methods Study
Deborah J. Cook,Marilyn Swinton,Feli Toledo,Trudy Rose,Tracey Hand-Breckenridge,Anne Boyle,Anne Woods,Nicole Zytaruk,Diane Heels-Ansdell,Robert Sheppard +9 more
TL;DR: The 3 Wishes Project was developed to try to bring peace to the final days of critically ill patients and to ease the grieving process, by eliciting and implementing a set of wishes identified by patients, families, clinicians, or the project team.
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Personalizing Death in the Intensive Care Unit: The 3 Wishes Project
Deborah J. Cook,Marilyn Swinton,Feli Toledo,Trudy Rose,Tracey Hand-Breckenridge,Anne Boyle,Anne Woods,Nicole Zytaruk,Diane Heels-Ansdell,Robert Sheppard +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the efforts of a multidisciplinary team to humanize a difficult process by eliciting and fulfilling some simple wishes of dying patients and their families.
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Experiences and Expressions of Spirituality at the End of Life in the Intensive Care Unit
Marilyn Swinton,Mauro Giacomini,Feli Toledo,Trudy Rose,Tracey Hand-Breckenridge,Anne Boyle,Anne Woods,F Clarke,Melissa Shears,Robert Sheppard,Deborah J. Cook +10 more
TL;DR: The Three Wishes Project invites and supports the expression of myriad forms of spirituality during the dying process in the ICU, and family members and clinicians consider spirituality an important dimension of end‐of‐life care.
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Narrative medicine and death in the ICU: word clouds as a visual legacy
Meredith Vanstone,Feli Toledo,Anne Boyle,Mauro Giacomini,Marilyn Swinton,Lois Saunders,Melissa Shears,Nicole Zytaruk,Anne Woods,Trudy Rose,Tracey Hand-Breckenridge,Diane Heels-Ansdell,Shelley Anderson-White,Robert Sheppard,Deborah J. Cook +14 more
TL;DR: Examining whether Word Clouds can act as a heuristic approach to encourage a narrative orientation to medicine found strong affiliative connections were achieved through the honouring of patients, caring for families and sharing of memories.