Palliative care

institute of health information “Advance care planning or advance directives are associated with better patient experience and lower costs for the health system (2016, p.11). Health care providers hold the accountability to educate and inform the patient to scrutinize treatment options and to help them to make preferences by “engaging patient and families to reflect on their values, understand their disease process and progression, and develop a palliative care plan” (Dahlin, Coyne and Ferrell,…

Palliative care is a form of specialized, medical care for people who only have a limited amount of time left to live. According to Saunders, as cited by Fernandes, palliative care offers a much more humane attitude than physician assisted suicide does. The article goes on to ponder what kind of precedent we would be setting if we consider assisted suicide to be good end-of-life care. It then argues how moral clarity is imperative, and that…

health directives word this as, “excessive expense,” or use words such as “disproportionate means of preserving life” (McClean, 2011). However, careful considerations are necessary when it comes to rising health care costs, medical-decision making, decisions on prolonging-life, or end-of-life care, no matter if an individual, family, or government agency/program is paying the bills. The purpose of this journal entry is to discuss the cost/benefit analysis of extending a life, and to consider…

Living with the Dying in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Nursing Perspective Critique Anna Evangelio, Von Vidal and Patricia Pineda University of St. Thomas NURS 3252 B: Clinical Inquiry Spring 2017 Living with the Dying in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Nursing Perspective Critique Statement of the phenomenon of interest In this article, the focus is on the phenomena of palliative care from the perspective of nurses who have provided care for children with life-threatening…

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 the lethal dose, then they can take it at a time of their choosing. When the prescription has been consumed, they slip in to…

daughter, son in law, and three grandsons. Think that it would help the situation, but it didn’t last. She tells the hospice physician that she is frustrated by her pain and exhaustion. In this situation, hospice helps with her condition by taking care of the needs and helping her the best way they could. Hospice wanted to have the pain monitored and under control. Pain management was an issue being that she was in pain a lot. To end the suffering that she is having I think they should comply…

of achieving. However, with life-changing events comes changing of goals. I learned in nursing school that the goals we set when planning care must be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time limited. Patients and their healthcare providers should consider the same criteria when planning the patient’s care. Aside from planning patient’s care together, it is important for patients and healthcare providers to have a “breakpoint discussion”, as mentioned in “Letting Go”. It is…

1. I do think terminally ill inmates should be addressed by correctional facilities with programs such as hospice care, especially those prisons who have a significant population of aged offenders; for example, Angola has 85% of its population already aging. Programs that address terminally ill patients, such as the hospice program, do not only benefit the patient, but also the inmate who volunteers and the nurses; it allows for the inmate to stop thinking in selfish ways because he is now…

Palliative medicine and Hospice care have become increasingly important in the age of modern medicine. That said the transition to hospice care could be a confusing, emotional, experience for both the patient and the caregiver. There has become increasing awareness of this issue, which is evident in the amount of hospital readmissions of hospice patients. Researchers addressed this issue with an article titled “Rehospitalization of Older Adults Discharged to Home Hospice Care,” (Goldenheim et…

responsiveness to react on the current emergency or need. The nurses that face mostly this stress are the ones assigned in a critical care unit or in the intensive care unit. There are different factors that contribute on this anxiety that is being felt by the nurse. It is necessary to be equipped with knowledge and skills to be able to work as an effective critical care unit nurse. On a study conducted by Ulrich et al. (2010), one of the ethical issues that contribute to a nurse’s stress on…