INTRODUCTION 1. Background Hospice and palliative care refers to holistic care provided through the late stages of cancer, death, and grief for terminal cancer patients and their family members. The number of hospice and palliative care institutions is increasing in South Korea, with 86 institutions (1,407 beds) in 2020 [1]. Interest in hospice care has been on the rise since the Act on Hospice and Palliative Care and Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients at the End of Life was enacted in 2018. Nurses caring for hospice patients deliver multidimensional and holistic care, involving not only treatments to control patients' pain and symptoms before, during, and after death, but also emotional support to ease perceptions of death, spiritual suffering, and psychological pain of patients and the sadness and anxiety of family members [2]. According to a study of grieving family
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