Palliative care

that palliative care “improves the quality of life of patients and families through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems physical psychological and spiritual.” (World Health Organisation, 2010). Palliative care is considered when an adult or child has an advanced disease which is not curable. (Kuebler, K.et al, 2007). Palliative care encompasses the patient and the family. Palliative care…

Health care costs a lot and it is an enormous threat to the health care system. According to Gawande (2010), a lot of medical spending is linked to the terminally ill. The outcome of patient’s care can be improved with palliative care. This care is focused on helping patients achieve optimal quality of life. Palliation is not a cure for the patient’s disease, but it reduces the unwanted effects (Cole and Kuebler, 2013). Nursing school has increased my knowledge on how important hospice and…

Palliative care is used for people who have life-threatening illness to improve their quality of life as well as 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…

VARIOUS ASPECTS OF PALLIATIVE CARE IN BANGLADESH Md. Reyad-ul- Ferdous1, A. H. M. Mahmudur Rahman2, Lutful Haque Saran3, Md. Mamun-Ur-Rashid4, Adnan Taher5 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Palliative care (‘palliative’ approaches from the Latin ‘pallium’…

individualistic and respectful approach to end-of-life care called palliative care. To palliative means to ease; in the case of medicine, palliative care eases the stressful burden of aggressive and terminal illnesses. Despite inaccurate beliefs, palliative care can…

Who should be included in the decision to modify care from recuperative to palliative? When, if ever, is the right to refuse any and all medical care appropriate when such virtually ensures the death of the patient? First off what is recuperative medical care? “Recuperative Care is a program that provides short- term medical care & case management to homeless persons who are recovering from an acute illness or injury, whose conditions would…

for the palliative care and end of life populations; with one being physician orders for life-sustaining treatment program (POLST) (NINR Strategic Plan, 2011) created by Dr. Susan Hickman (POLST, 2016). As noted in the NINR strategic plan, the POLST assists in communicating the patient’s end of life choices to all medical personnel involved in their care (NINR Strategic Plan, 2011). By utilizing a standardized form, the communication of the patient’s end of life choices with other health care…

controversial, begs to be discussed. Regardless of where we stand on the subject, it is as unavoidable as death itself. The media has often thrown around words like hospice, palliative care, and euthanasia. The words can be easily confused with one another but each has its own respective meaning. Hospice and palliative care help their patients to achieve better qualities of life.…

The content presented in class this week focused on the relationship between nurses and caring technology as well as how increased technology use has/can shape care. Much of my personal insight into these topics was provided through the completion of an activity presented in class. This activity involved two people, each of whom played either a nurse or a patient in order to allow for the gathering and documentation of subjective-based patient information. Upon completion, the class debriefed…

In palliative care many of the issues involved arise ethical and legal questions. In many cases it is not easy to discuss the issue of death, and what to do when the end is near it may be a time when decisions regarding the course of treatment must be made. This can be a time of high stress and an emotional rollercoaster for the patient and their families. As I ponder on the fact that at times these hard decisions must be made I cannot disregard the questions and uncertainty that arose as I read…