End-of-life care

medication, upon the patient 's request, which the patient intends to use to end his or her own life (Braddock III ). Besides the tremendous suffering a terminal patient goes through, the financial factor can also be a factor in choosing a physician-assisted death. Typically, those who are terminally ill have some sort of hospice care whether it 's in a facility or at home. There are few people who can afford the costs of hospice care. Once the patient goes through the legal process of obtaining…

End-of-life healthcare decisions are one of the most challenging aspects of medical treatment. In end-of-life healthcare decisions, a decision frequently must be made between advanced medical intervention and allowing the patient to die peacefully. Although everyone involved in a patient’s treatment wants what is best for a patient, the situation can become a challenging ethical dilemma because what is best for a patient is often unclear. If extraordinary medical intervention is attempted and…

family is just devastated. They have never had any traumatic situations in the past, and the patient is the bread winner for the family. The family all have lots of questions, and each member is dealing with the situation differently. The palliative care nurse is going to be the main caregiver in this difficult situation. The…

VARIOUS ASPECTS OF PALLIATIVE CARE IN BANGLADESH Md. Reyad-ul- Ferdous1, A. H. M. Mahmudur Rahman2, Lutful Haque Saran3, Md. Mamun-Ur-Rashid4, Adnan Taher5 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Palliative care (‘palliative’ approaches from the Latin ‘pallium’…

Who decides what to do when it comes to someone else’s life? A multitude of people in the world have a problem deciding whether or not to “pull the plug” for their loved ones. “Pulling the plug” comes with major ethical issues when deciding the best interests of the patient, so policies, procedures, and principles have been put in place to help physicians and the family/surrogates to make the right decision (Thompson). Two main principles justify the legality of this issue which are informed…

In addition to health care cost, having the right to decide for or against an assisted suicide as a terminal patient will diminish the emotional toll that death and dying can put on both the patients and their families. The very emotional toll and the feelings of becoming a burden are significant that terminal patients go through. They fear intractable pain and worrying about becoming baffled thus not capable of making their own decisions. Terminal patients also are concerned with becoming…

topic of discussion is on ethical and legal issues at the end-of-life (EOL). Masters (September 13, 2016) opened the discussion by asking the RN-BSN students, what would they do if the patient has an advance directive. This writer replied that if there is advance directive and it is within the patients’ possession, then the goal is to comply with patient wishes. Advance directives is a way an individual can express their preferences for care that they may need at EOL (Black, 2014). In addition…

competent, his health care proxy, authority to prevent CPR or, if it has begun, to withdraw it.” If after taking into account the patient's situation, and physical and moral resources, it can be judged that CPR is considered excessively burdensome, therefore being extraordinary…

believe that death is not natural, it is something that can be cheated and has become a trivial part of life we do not think about. But the truth is that everyone eventually dies, and by not thinking about it when we are young we are not setting ourselves up for the best possible end to our lives. We do not think about where we want to live, with whom we want to live, who we want to take care of us, how are we going to financially support ourselves at that age, etc. As a result, when the time…

and so much more. Then you throw the word “assisted” in there and people often find that more upsetting, like people are giving up on themselves, which isn’t necessarily the case. People don’t want to think about losing someone they love, but in the end everybody has to face death. So, why make someone suffer if there is a way out? I personally think that assisted suicide should be legalized nation wide throughout the United States. However, assisted suicide should be used as a last resort. I…