Palliative care

illness, they should have the right to terminate their life with a physician’s assistance to prevent future and prolonged suffering. On the opposing side, it is morally unethical for a health care provider to provide assisted euthanasia on the grounds that the practice in contraindicated within their standard of care in that it is a physician’s obligation to preserve life. Which brings me to the heated debate, should the terminally ill have the right to end their life with the assistance of a…

form of medical care, assistance and safety, and often spiritual and emotional support for both the patient and the caregiver. This may also include the participation of other members of the family. Hospice care is offered by a lot of organizations, including hospitals and private practices. It provides the necessary help to manage the details and challenges of caring for a sick friend or member of the family. Some of the most common hospice services may include: - Medical care focusing on…

It is clear that the utmost importance in any medical context is the relationship between the healthcare practitioner and the patient. The duty of a physician is to adhere to certain principles of medical ethics namely the principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. By examining the case study involving Dr. Nancy Morrison, one can observe that these principles are often ambiguous when referring to the issue of whether she committed voluntary active euthanasia or…

bereavement, preloss grief, postloss grief, complicated grief, predeath loss, future loss, pending loss, preparatory grief, progressive loss, impending death, proplonged grief, prepararation at the end of life, and forewarning of death in hospice and palliative care (Moon, 2016). No concept analysis…

transferred to private hospitals. The long waiting list might impact on stakeholders (patients) to go private, which will be good for business for private hospitals, but can have a bad impact on the poor, as they might not be able to afford private care, and some may die, while on waiting list for surgical treatments. This will also impact on the hospital, as this might mean restructuring in order to cut back on finances. Some jobs like pharmacy dispensers are already being replaced by robots in…

sustainability of NP clinical education and the profession (Forsberg et. al., 2015). In the realm of genetics nursing, there is a consensual goal to increase the understanding, awareness and appreciation of all nurses, nursing educators, and health care providers when it comes to genetics and genomics concepts as it is a part of nursing’s present and future (Sharoff, 2015). It is necessary then that all nursing students in all academic levels will have genetics/genomics integrated in nursing…

pain or those who have no hope of escaping a hospital bed should not have to endure the rest of their lives in that position. Every branch of science has its limits and patients should not have to suffer because of the limits of the global health care system in the twenty-first…

appetite, depression and diminished patients’ quality of life and support system. The overseeing and controlling of patients’ pain promptly is the aim of palliative care. To control cancer pain and having the patients’ pain at steady state is challenging. The purpose of this paper is to examine the incidence of cancer pain and the impact on nursing care practice. Problem Cancer is the second most prevalent cause of demises in the United States, and approximately…

and professions believe. Dementia is not a common cognitive change that all elderly clients undergo, but for those that do this impairment drastically changes their health care, life style, and independence. Persons in the health care setting must learn to differentiate dementia from other conditions to improve individual care and advance healing motives to reduce the incurable symptoms of the elderly client. Other problematic situations that may occur when an elderly client has dementia are…

Introduction: Throughout history there has been many advances in the health care professional, that also applies to perinatal medicine. However, still to this day close to 4,000 newborns still require resuscitation per year (Chalkias). Respiratory support may be needed in the delivery room when a newborn undergoes asphyxia and can not reach the level of oxygen needed to thrive and survive by his or her own self (Chalkias). Resuscitation is abundantly seen in preterm delivery, which is…