Hospice

make the ultimate decision. This type of care is provided to patients during their final stages of life. Whether its palliative care that can help relieve some of their symptoms that arise from diseases or disorders that are curable or incurable to hospice that provides care to patients including children who are diagnosed with incurable disease that have 6 months or less to live. They both tend to the needs of the patient and their family. Patient should be the first to decide what type of care…

With high readmission rates, hospitals are searching for ways to decrease the rates. Hospital interdisciplinary teams work with patients and families before and after discharge to provide the necessary resources and education to prevent patients’ return to the hospital. Complications such as infections are often reasons for return. The team works to address not only the physical needs of the patient but also emotional needs of both the patient and family. Patient presents to the emergency…

Patient-physician relationship and terminal illness The patient-physician relationship is vital to the palliative care process of patients deemed to be nearing death, and it is the foundation to which a treatment plan may be negotiated while integrating the best medical technology and human care available. A central aspect of the relationship is influenced by incorporating the virtues mentioned earlier. In addition, hope, empathy and compassion always serve as the major ways employed to ensure…

Physician-Assisted Death Introduction The ethical dilemma I chose is physician-assisted death. I chose this because it has been in the news and it is a topic which has always interested me as a nurse I very much value life but also believe in one being able to make their own decisions regarding their health care but do not believe this is meant to involve takings one’s own life. Ethical Dilemma Physician-assisted death, is it right or is it wrong? Is it our right to choose when and how we die…

2004). Death is frightening, whether it is a patient or the patient’s family, but there is hospice care in the home that can help both the patient and the family during this time. Hospice shows compassion to those dying, but in order to have Hospice care a patient must have a life expectancy of less than 6 months. Hospice care involves pain and symptom relief, it does not involve curative care. Hospice in the home can help patients live their last days in a comfortable, familiar environment and…

Palliative Care allows the client to have the certain able rights as to how their pain will be managed, the process of dying and the overall care of their health. The client’s health does not only encompass physical symptoms, but also emotional, spiritual and mental health influences. While dealing with a life-threatening illness, clients begin to worry about how their illness will affect them. This is when workers who specialize in palliative care can step in and alleviate the worry about their…

"central to the decision-making process" (Légaré et al., 2011, p. 557). We acknowledged daughter’s fears and supported her by remaining non-judgemental. Furthermore, we involved Mrs.D in care planning and informed family about our palliative and hospice services. “All aspects of care are provided in a manner that is sensitive to the person’s and family’s personal, cultural, and religious values, beliefs and practices, their developmental state and preparedness to deal with the dying…

End of Life Care Versus Palliative Care Sometimes the words we use to describe the care our loved ones receive all blend together. Hospice care, palliative care, end-of-life care, elder care...aren't they all the same things? You might be surprised to learn that each of these services is distinct and different, each offering different kinds of services and benefits, and also have separate restrictions. Today, let's take a brief look at end-of-life care versus palliative care. Palliative…

family members. Hospice care also has the same philosophy of palliative care, in which is to give a patient the best quality of care and relief of symptoms. Contrasting with this, palliative care and hospice care are administered at different points in a patient’s prognosis. Palliative care can be used at any given point in the process, but hospice care can only be used if the patient has 6 or less months to live. Palliative care is usually used in hospitals or care facilities; hospice is not…

live, and then ultimately, we die. Cindy Lee, age 56, knows this all too well. She is the owner and founder of Heart 'n Home Hospice & Palliative Care LLC whose mission statement is to, “optimize the quality of life for individuals in the final stages of terminal illness.” Hospice care is designed to give terminally ill patients in their final stages quality of life. Hospice does not try to find a cure, but rather to make the final days of the patients’ life painless, and in the place of their…