Hebert, Moore and Rooney (2011) also wrote that it is the nurses’ responsibility to converse with the dying patient regarding their beliefs and rituals so that patients preserve dignity when they die.
It is also vital to grasp the legal and ethical considerations as death approaches.
This is when nurses have to communicate with the patient to create an advance care directive for his or her upcoming health care choices when he or she is in terminal condition. The expectation is that nurses would become more knowledgeable with evaluating critical health-related decisions. The communication, also known as life care conversations is when the patient and family members work with nurses or any health care professionals, to converse the probable course of the sickness, the compensations and disadvantages of existing interventions (Ward, 2009). Advance care directive can be oral or in a written form, signed by a competent adult that is acknowledged by common law. There are two kinds of written advance directives which is a living will, stating the person’s preferences for medical treatment and a lasting power of attorney, in …show more content…
Once a patient has passed on, there are a number of actions that must be taken. Nurses need to work attentively with patients and families to identify their wants and needs. When talking to a family that has lost someone close to them, nurses must be persevering and empathetic (Ward, 2010). Olausson and Ferrell (2013) presented an example about a patient who had died, and the nurse cleaned his body, washed his hair and combed it tidily and shaved his moustache. When his family came back to claim the patient’s body, they were pleased to see their loved one looking the same as before he became critically ill. This point is also sustained by the work of Ward (2010), where she talked about how delivering after-death care (ADC) was equally important as delivering care when they were
It is also vital to grasp the legal and ethical considerations as death approaches.
This is when nurses have to communicate with the patient to create an advance care directive for his or her upcoming health care choices when he or she is in terminal condition. The expectation is that nurses would become more knowledgeable with evaluating critical health-related decisions. The communication, also known as life care conversations is when the patient and family members work with nurses or any health care professionals, to converse the probable course of the sickness, the compensations and disadvantages of existing interventions (Ward, 2009). Advance care directive can be oral or in a written form, signed by a competent adult that is acknowledged by common law. There are two kinds of written advance directives which is a living will, stating the person’s preferences for medical treatment and a lasting power of attorney, in …show more content…
Once a patient has passed on, there are a number of actions that must be taken. Nurses need to work attentively with patients and families to identify their wants and needs. When talking to a family that has lost someone close to them, nurses must be persevering and empathetic (Ward, 2010). Olausson and Ferrell (2013) presented an example about a patient who had died, and the nurse cleaned his body, washed his hair and combed it tidily and shaved his moustache. When his family came back to claim the patient’s body, they were pleased to see their loved one looking the same as before he became critically ill. This point is also sustained by the work of Ward (2010), where she talked about how delivering after-death care (ADC) was equally important as delivering care when they were