Palliative medicine

It is my ambition to become a Paediatric Nurse so I can gain the skills I need to offer the highest standard of care for all children. I specifically wish to be a Child Nurse because during my work experience, I found it highly rewarding building a rapport with the families, but also because of the additional challenges of caring for children who can’t necessarily care for themselves or communicate. I am always excited by my work experience and voluntary work because of the prospect of helping…

human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), brain tumor, and some mental diseases, etc. For those people who get those diseases will not find an effective way to rescue. The only thing that a doctor can do is to use a palliative care to prolong patients’ time of survival. During the survival time, the situations of those patients who get incurable diseases will become worse and worse, and they have to suffer tremendous pain everyday. Their parents, lovers, children…

Out of two ethical dilemmas, one is beneficence vs non-maleficence. Beneficence is to doing what is in the best interests of the patient. In this scenario, although patient is in the persistent vegetative state, yet there is no obvious patient’s wish in the form of personal directive available for euthanasia. So, the nurse can only provide optimal patient care as per hospital protocols, policy and procedure. Non-maleficence is doing no harm to the patient. As the surgeon told the LPN to…

In the article “Should I Help My Patients Die?”, Jessica Nutik Zitter, a critical care and palliative medicine doctor at Highland Hospital, argues that special qualifications and training should be required for doctors to perform the lethal injection in order to guarantee that each patient gets properly evaluated and the doctor does not feel the emotional distress that comes with making this decision without proper training. Zitter describes how she felt when her first patient asked her for the…

This is a very interesting topic regarding right to die. There’s plethora of information pertaining to the right to die pros and cons. In dealing with competent, terminally ill individuals to avoid severe or excruciating pain and embrace a peaceful, timely, and dignified death. The right to die debate is a controversial specific. The debates are centered around the ethics and rights of allowing citizens or the people who are terminally ill to request and receive assisted dying. I think people…

the lack of justification of killing, medical practitioner integrity and risks associated with abusing the liberty available to the physician. Intentionally assisting the patient to die is considered to be morally wrong because advanced methods of palliative care are available, which do not warrant physician assisted death to the patient under any circumstances. All physicians work under oath to never cause intentional harm to a patient and assisting patient death breaches their professional…

Introduction Since the colonization of Australia on the 26th of January 1788 there have been many notable advances in the field of medicine, many of which occurred in the mid 1900's. These discoveries include that of pharmacologist and pathologist Howard Florey, cardiothoracic surgeon Victor Chang, paediatric oncologist John Colebatch and virologist Frank Burnet. Howard Florey Considered by many to have made the greatest medical discovery in Australian history, Howard Florey is remembered…

He goes on describing the pain she’s been feeling, shortness of breath, and the hassle of going back and forth from to the hospital. He then takes the situation to the ethics committee, but denied the request suggesting to relieve her pain with medicine. With the family permission he did so, and arranged for her to be placed in for a home hospice care, but she passed away before she could be transferred. Jauhar then breaks down how useful hospice care can be, and that this can be offered to…

favor of legalizing euthanasia. Even experts who support euthanasia disregard active euthanasia. Sumit Ray, senior consultant and vice-chairman, critical care medicine, at New Delhi 's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, states that “a discussion on active euthanasia is important” (Mint). Professor Sushma Bhatnagar, who is the head of pain and palliative care at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, agrees that “there should be a limit to aggressive treatment.”(Mint) When the issue is…

question our ethical, religious, and cultural values or beliefs. Although it is tragic and perceived as morally inappropriate, suicide is sometimes the only answer. In certain cases this act is a way to end excruciating pain and suffering through modern medicine. The state of Oregon passed a law known as the Death with Dignity Act in 1994. PAD is defined as “a practice in which a physician provides a competent, terminally ill patient with a prescription for a lethal dose of medication, upon the…