Hospice

Death is inevitable, its part of the circle of life. So, this notion that one has the right to end their lives by undergoing voluntary euthanasia sparks debate in regard to the moral justification of physician-assisted suicide. Physician-assisted suicide is defined as the killing of a person by the person’s own hand with the help of a physician (Vaughn 293). This is just another form to intentionally end one’s life in order to be relieved from pain and suffering. However, the Death with Dignity…

Intentional Prayer This semester and the last several years I have been intentionally praying for my great Aunt Colleen. She has many health issues including arthritis, kidney failure, obesity, and many others. My family has constantly been praying for her to be able to live a long time and be healthy. In the last few years she has been able to maintain a relatively normal lifestyle because of dialysis and water aerobics. She has always been directly involved in my life. She never married or had…

Identifying Information The family discussed in this paper is a blended family. Included is a father /stepfather (Ralaun), age 32, a mother (Lakiesha), age 31, and three children (Jayloni, Jveonte and Jordan), whose ages are 12,9 and 5 respectively. The mother is the biological parent of all three children. However, Jayloni is from a previous relationship that ended 10 years ago due to mistrust and manipulation. The spouse and biological father of Jayloni has a distant relationship and Jayloni…

The staff is starting to get more resentful as the patient is in a bad condition and the wife refuses to allow him to go on hospice. The patient goes into cardiac arrest and advanced cardiac life support is preformed four times and he doesn't respond well. The doctor recommends to stop efforts after asking the wife for permission. Within the next day the wife feels that she honored…

PAD in hopes of ending their lives the way they want to. The biggest flaw in the healthcare system would be the price. “Yet many lower-income residents in Oregon might qualify for assisted-death drugs, but not qualify for basic treatments or even hospice care under medicaid. To say to someone, ‘we’ll pay for you to die, but not pay for you to live,’ it's cruel.” (Hale) Numerous patients suffer with financial issues and cannot afford the treatment necessary for their end of life care. This is…

My role as Geriatric Psychiatrist, providing care in the general hospital, also enables me to see other aspects of our health care system. Recently, our hospital announced the closing of Geriatric Assessment Clinic due to it’s financial return or lack there of. This is the place where we could refer the Geriatric patients with complex issues that required the team of different disciplines to figure out how to best care for those particular patients. There is no incentive to provide care for the…

The outcome is still the same: Death Modern human medicine is to save lives at whatever cost it takes. For some humans the agony of pain and suffering is justifiable if it means to save a life. Advances in medicine today often means that people are living longer and all too often suffering for long periods of time due to illness, and yes, this does often mean agonizingly slow death. No matter what course is taken towards the matter the outcome will be the same, death! A person doesn’t choose to…

February 6, 2015 will always be a significant day in my life. It was a Friday, and it was also the day my aunt Pam lost her life to a tough battle with multiple different types of cancer. It was heartbreaking news, and all I wanted to do after finding out was go lay in my bed and cry. However, that 's not what happened, and the day was long from being over. It was a sunny, somewhat chilly Friday afternoon, and I was supposed to be dismissed early from my 7th period class to board the basketball…

believe that mother Teresa is my mentor even though she is no longer. She didn’t fascinated job working with those whose don’t have the opportunity to have a shelter or the opportunity to have good health because they’re very poor. Mother Theresa run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics;…

that point in their life, whether it was easy to find what they wanted to do or hard. Each story had something meaningful to draw from, but there were four stories in particular that stuck out the most. The first story that stuck out the most is Hospice Chaplain, where a daughter is lying at her father's deathbed and she is holding his hand when he takes his last breath, and she describes it as beautiful and relaxing. This reminded me of one of the reasons why I want to go into nursing. The…