Palliative medicine

used dyspnea as an example. The importance of nursing involvement in pediatric palliative care is significant. Nursing has a been a driving field of change for pediatric palliative care. Nurses have tried to shape this type of palliative care so that it is suitable for children. Nevertheless, nurses still face challenges to being able to provide quality care to children and their families. This paper used the palliative and end-of -life care model, which are models used in Evidence based…

reports that more than one third of all deaths occur in the hospital setting (2011). However, most patients who die in the hospital setting do not receive palliative care (Imhof, Kaskie, & Wyatt, 2007). In their 2007 article “Finding the way to a better death: an evaluation of palliative care referral tools” Imhof, Kaskie and Wyatt assert that palliative care allows patients to experience a good death; a death in which pain and symptoms are better managed, and patients receive the emotional,…

Organ donation, and the ethical issues surrounding it, has become a topic of discussion in recent years. Most ethical issues involve patients and family, but it can also affect nurses and physicians. The article Organ Donation after Circulatory Death, the authors highlight the ethical dilemmas of organ donation due to “non-heart beating” death. In such cases the patient must die within 60 minutes after being removed from life support to be eligible for organ donation. With the shortage of…

Kept on Life Support In discussion of life support, many question if people should be kept on life support. In one controversial issue is that in some occasions some people should not be on life support. On one hand, everybody is human in that they want to live, so they should have the right to be kept on life support. On the other hand, some may disagree with others because if they are hurting then they should not be on life support and should be able to leave this place. People should not be…

Review Anticipatory Grief: A Concept Analysis Aim. This article is a report of a concept analysis of anticipatory grief in nursing discipline. Background. The increase of the importance and demand of hospice care requires healthcare professionals to provide better care services for family caregivers of hospice patients. One of their emotional challenges is grief. However, there are various terms of grief and each term has essential meanings. Especially anticipatory grief is a feeling of…

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,…

Journal Assignment #2 As a new nurse, I started working in a local hospice agency located near my house. Among the duties I performed as hospice nurse include calling patients and their families to follow up on their conditions. One of the patients that I needed to check up on regularly was Mrs. L.J., an 82-year-old Lebanese woman residing in a skilled nursing facility (SNF). She had been admitted to the hospice from an oncology medical center and had been a hospice patient for less than a week.…

Who decides what to do when it comes to someone else’s life? A multitude of people in the world have a problem deciding whether or not to “pull the plug” for their loved ones. “Pulling the plug” comes with major ethical issues when deciding the best interests of the patient, so policies, procedures, and principles have been put in place to help physicians and the family/surrogates to make the right decision (Thompson). Two main principles justify the legality of this issue which are informed…

Palliative care is a form of specialized, medical care for people who only have a limited amount of time left to live. According to Saunders, as cited by Fernandes, palliative care offers a much more humane attitude than physician assisted suicide does. The article goes on to ponder what kind of precedent we would be setting if we consider…

One of the most common therapies is Palliative Sedation. In palliative sedation therapy, symptom relief is achieved by lessening the pain or eliminating the consciousness of the patient. One of the most common methods to provide palliative care, is through the use of drugs. The drugs that are often used are analgesics and barbiturates. Barbiturates act on the central nervous system by causing…