Palliative care

options for her case, first is dialysis, second is palliative care. This case is analyzed according to four different ethical principles which are beneficence (promote good), nonmaleficence (to not cause harm and pain), justice (what is due) and respect for autonomy (self-determination). This ethical reasons for this are based on justice principle and beneficence principle. Sometimes, is very hard to balance the patient autonomy with health care providers' obligations to do good for…

However, the main opposition to the approach of multi-specialist treatment in India is the fame of “outpatient homecare programs” and services. A study of 33 palliative care clinics across Kerala highlights that outpatient treatment with a supportive homecare service is now being adopted as the main mode of palliative care. A homecare team mainly consists of highly trained nurses, the patient’s family members, and also social workers, who travel in “Rickshaws” to visit the patient who suffers…

up to go to the washroom. The patient also has chest pain, nausea and vomiting, fever and worsening orthopnea The patient is having dementia, hypertension and ESRF stage 4. However, patient reused HD and was under nephro clinic, but planned for palliative management. The patient had been admitted to the hospital due to the same presenting complaint for several times. He is not taking any medication and currently practicing conservative management due to financial problems. The patient is not…

address chronic diseases as well as examine end of life care. In relationship to President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative, the NINR supported scientists have been working on developing strategies that will help prevent and treat diseases in individuals based on specific factors. One such study Discontinuing Statin Treatment in Adults with Advance Illness is Safe and may be associated with improved quality of life and reduces health care cost. This resulted in findings that proved not…

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is unethical to prolong a life when the patient is terminal and not receiving necessary treatment. However, society is not the only factor considered when it comes to treatment. A patient has the legal right to refuse treatment. According to Health Care Ethics, practical wisdom is used to determine that a patient can ethically refuse treatment. The Quill v. Vacco court case further indicated that PAS should be allowed for terminal patients. This court case states that it is unjust to allow…

assisted suicide or euthanasia, patients should seek palliative care treatment. Individuals against palliative care believe that patients shouldn’t have to live their life depending on medications and machines. However, comfort can be given through palliative care, and the endless amounts of treatment available can ease pain for the patient and their family. Eileen Chrystal-Frances, a member of the World Health Organization, describes palliative care as “a specialized field of medicine that is…

(NCPSSM, 2016). Those 53.5 million individuals qualify for receiving the Medicare Hospice Benefit (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2016). With an older adult (65 and up) population continuously aging and growing, the need for end of life care continues to grow as well (US Department of Health and Human Services , 2015). According to Department of Health and Human Services, in the next forty- four years in 2060 there will be 98 million older adults, that’s double the amount of…

The aim of palliative care is to enable the patients’ and their families’ quality of life. This can be achieved through effective delivery of care by providing age-specific palliation to an individual with chronic illness and their families. Palliative care is a specialized treatment that supports the patient and their family’s wellbeing through controlling the end-of-life physical symptoms and recognizing their psychological, spiritual and social needs. Nurses are member of the…

to potentially fatal illnesses, like cancer or cardiovascular disease. Regardless, throughout the aging process, patients trust their doctors to keep them informed of their options and provide the best possible care. But, what people often forget, is sometimes, the best care is no care at all. There is no universal path fit for every patient once morbidity sets in. For example: three people may receive the same terminal cancer diagnosis and one may decide to fight to their last breathe, while…