Palliative care

We were first introduced to palliative care P1 year with Dr. Phillips. From her brief lecture, I felt like it was an interesting topic and could potentially be a difficult field to work in. I found myself wanting to learn more about palliative care to see if I could potentially work in a hospice setting. Personally, I had a great-grandfather that was utilizing at home hospice care for a little over a year before he passed. I didn’t get to see much of the healthcare aspect but I instead saw…

of care providers in residential aged care facilities in Australia would improve the palliative care for patients with the end stages of dementia. Three points of this issue: the current shortage of palliative care for the residents with advanced dementia, a key factor to deal with the shortage of this provision and an appropriate person to offer person-centred care for the residents, expect for specialists, is to be discussed. It is a fact that the number of professionals of palliative care is…

I just said-BBC.com brings up good ideas of why euthanasia might not be the best thing to allow in the United States. With the legalization of euthanasia, palliative care would start to shoot down. Fighting an illness or disease with a loved one or even just a doctor who cares is hard enough, but it is still comforting. Without that proper care and affection, it’s rough no matter who or what the personality is. The more support from others a human gets, the more character builds within.…

Integrating Speech-Language Pathology Services in Palliative End-of-Life Care Introduction The purpose of this article is to educate the public about the role of a speech language pathologist in end of life care for a patient. This article compares and contrasts the traditional duties of an SLP with the unique SLP role in palliative care. Discussed in depth in this article is the concept of a consult. There are numerous different reasons a speech language pathologist could be called in for a…

Thesis Palliative/Hospice Care: Necessity or Extension of Healthcare: a topic chosen to obtain clarity of services, while questioning who is benefiting, patients or the healthcare system. I. Introduction: The Historical Roots of Hospice In Homeric times (8th century B.C.), all Greeks without exception were regarded as being under the protection of Zeus Xenios, the god of strangers and supplicants. A wanderer would be treated as a guest and offered food, shelter, clothing, and gifts…

Stage 4 melanoma is very hard to cure. According to the American Cancer Society a five-year rate is 15 to 20 percent and ten-year survival rate is 10 to 15. Some treatments for Melanoma include chemotherapy, radiation, and interleukin-2. There are some side effects, for chemotherapy the side effects are that the cancer cells can divide faster than normal cells. The chemotherapy drugs get those cells effectively. Unfortunately, the chemo-drugs also kill the normal cells. (Pietrangelo, 2017).…

The research article Study of Nurses’ Knowledge about Palliative Care: A Quantitative Cross-sectional Survey is a nonexperimental design (LoBiondo-Wood & Haber, 2014). A nonexperimental design is important for providing evidence that can be used in the nursing practice. The independent variable cannot be manipulated (LoBiondo-Wood & Haber, 2014). The independent variable in this article is the palliative care knowledge test (PCKT). The same test is used for all the participants (Prem, Karvannan,…

improve practice Palliative Care & Radiotherapy Programme in the Outpatient Clinic of the Department of Radiotherapy, St Luke’s Hospital, Dublin. Background, a brief description of the area of practice in which this proposal relates to. Advances in medical technology, such as laparoscopic surgery or breast tumour excisions, have had repercussions on oncological healthcare, including organisational consequences. An important consequence is the need to provide more outpatient and day care…

in search of quality improvement initiatives to improve the experience of clients, patient outcomes, and the overall quality of care services (Diaz et al., 2010). AB hospital is currently seeking to improve the quality in palliative patient care services through innovation. This BM project is well suited for the vision that the organisation is seeking. Current palliative service model is lacking the policy guideline based on research evidence that could assist the staff to further enhance the…

music therapy on a weekly basis as part of her treatment plan (Lester, 1997) Plan of Care When planning care for Estelle many aspects must be taken into consideration, such as the prevention of infection such as lung infections like pneumonia, the development of UTI due to having a Foley catheter in place, prevention of muscle wasting, and development of Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) (Arenella, 2014). The plan of care for Estelle would also include…