End-of-life care

fight because Felix was focused on winning that the fight and becoming the champion. Well as Felix trained for the big fight he started to realize that his friend is more important to him than a boxing match. So the boys boxed a hard fight and in the end before the announcer even announced the winner the boys had already left the ring arm in arm together. Felix is a dynamic character who changes throughout the story and learns a lesson. At the start of…

Right to Die Laws Introduction Disease, pain, and suffering are all a very real part of our world. Though these are things we attempt to avoid, they find many of us, and end others. Diseases like Cancer, Huntington’s disease, ALS, and many others bring wonderful people to atrocious demises. Furthermore, events such as car accidents, shootings, and malicious beatings results in other painful deaths. No family wishes to watch their loved ones suffer and live their final days in pain. Because of…

The antecedents of pediatric palliative care would “include children/families with an acute illness that progresses to a life-limiting illness, children/families with a chronic disease that progresses to a life-limiting illness, an interdisciplinary team educated in pediatric palliative care, and an institution providing pediatric palliative care services” (Stayer, 2012 p. 354). Before a child is put into pediatric palliative care, they have to suffer a life-limiting illness. The child may…

dilemma is a very serious and complicated issue to deal with in the health care environment because it had to deal with human beings, especially life and death. Ethical dilemma becomes an issue when patient, family members, and health care providers have different views or opinions regarding medical care. Sometimes, health care providers believe that a medically challenged or disabled patient will have such a terrible quality of life, that he or she would not want to live. While the family may…

describe foster care systems throughout the world. There are about 428,000 kids that are in foster care, but this only accounts for foster care systems throughout the United States. On average, a child will wait five years or longer within the adoption system before they end up being adopted. A third of people within the United States consider adopting, however only 2% actually go through with adopting. Many kids have the potential to be adopted, but as of now they’re stuck in foster care homes…

facilities offer individualized care plan based off of the needs, and preferences, in how often the patient bathes, when they eat their meals and in selecting staff members with whom the patient feels comfortable in providing care to them (Hooyman, Kawamoto, & Kiyak, 2016). Person-centered care planning is of great significance to me because it allows me maintain a feeling of independence while remaining in control of the choices that I make in regards to living my life. Since independence is…

who will be one’s healthcare agent is in an emergency. It is better to plan ahead to avoid unnecessary stress. Though this is unlike the previous two, but the POLST form is also another document to put into consideration. It is a physician order for life-sustaining treatment. This form explains in details what the patient wants, in the case of a medical intervention, like CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation), defibrillators, tubes for feeding or even when the patient is not breathing, without a…

I provided personal cares to my clients such as performing bed baths while providing maximum privacy and allowing the client to perform as many ADL’s as they could independently. -I advocated for my patients right to determine end of life decisions, and right to refuse treatment. -Learning occurred: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. -Preceptor support of care decisions and praise of actions. -Family communication of appreciation. A family thanked me for providing care to their loved…

Do we think of death as a part of our life or as the end of it? We all will encounter a death at some point of our life. When we think of a death, we think about fear, suffering, and emotional pain. I recently lost my uncle and my grandmother. I thought I was prepared for it. In reality, we can never be ready for a death of someone we love, or someone we take care of. The article I read, shows how important is the support for nurses when taking care of dying patients.…

First of all, the principle of the spy universe that the ends justify the means can be observed through the main character Roger Ferris. Indeed, Ferris often sacrifices people or part of his personal life to achieve the ends. For instance, at the beginning of the book Ferris has a source of information whose name is Nizar who needs to get expediated in the United States to be save (p.48). However, Ferris knows that he cannot save this guy, so he takes all the information he needs and promises…