Palliative medicine

As a critical care nurse it is important to take into consideration the patient and family's cultural and spiritual beliefs. Taking into consideration such beliefs helps the nurse gain better understanding on how to go about the treatment process. This is essential because the nurse plays a vital role in the care of the patient and family. A strong relationship between the nurse, patient, and family alleviates the stress and helps facilitate the bereavement process during end of life care. Some…

There are differences between the palliative care programs and hospice care programs when it comes to timing, care location, eligibility for services and payments. Most of the hospice may have visiting hospice nurses and family caregiver will be available. At palliative care, doctors, nurses and other medical caregiver professionals may be available. When a person is expected to die within six months they are eligible for most of the hospice programs and the normal consideration is while…

he experiences restlessness and shortness of breath. All of the factors listed above plus many more result in his progressing COPD and ultimately his decreasing health. Leyshon (2012) promotes palliative care for those who in the terminal phase of the disease. When placing a patient on hospice or palliative care "they are more likely to receive co-ordinated support, including classification of their specific needs, advance care planning discussion, prevention of crisis admissions and a proactive…

Hospice is type of palliative care where the goal is to comfort those who have a certain amount of time left, Hospice was first introduced to the United States in the 1970s. The goal is to make sure the person’s quality of life is at the best it can while managing the symptoms of their condition. (Hospicevallley 2016). During the 1970s hospice care was mostly for adult cancer patients, but now it is available to other illnesses and various ages. Such illnesses are, for example, lung disease,…

Margaret McClean, director of Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Center bioethics director, considers medical decision making, or reasoning, based upon cost burden. Recent health directives word this as, “excessive expense,” or use words such as “disproportionate means of preserving life” (McClean, 2011). However, careful considerations are necessary when it comes to rising health care costs, medical-decision making, decisions on prolonging-life, or end-of-life care, no matter if an…

The same goes for someone who wishes to die at home. To receive the service from hospice, their homes have to meet certain criteria as well. If the patients’ home doesn’t have the means to provide the type of care they need at home, then there are palliative care units that they can go to but there are restriction on how long they can stay. Eventually the patient will end up in a long-term facility where a patient never wanted to be, especially the final days of his…

Prigerson’s Work Third, Dr. Holly Prigerson, who is currently the Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College, and the Professor of Sociology in Medicine, and Director, Center for Research on End-of-Life Care, has research and authored studies focused on prolonged grief disorder, religious influences on end-of-life care, and “psychosocial and behavioral influences on medical care and care outcomes for patients and families confronting life-threatening…

will satisfactorily address the problems associated with such life-limiting sickness (Palliative care NSW, 2012). In this direction, therefore, one of the most appropriate ways through which these illnesses can be solved is by employing the palliative care in addressing the problems that such patients and their families may be going through. As such, there is the need to have a better understanding of palliative care and the role that it plays in ensuring that the healthcare wants…

Today as we live in the 21st century, the general populations knowledge of pediatric palliative care is miniscule. The death of a child is considered unimaginable, the day when a parent has to bury their child is seen as one of the worst possible life experience one could endure. The focus of this paper will be on the nursing care of a child, symptom management (pain), family care, and the deciding factors and process of choosing where the child will die. There have been many studies on the end…

However, the main opposition to the approach of multi-specialist treatment in India is the fame of “outpatient homecare programs” and services. A study of 33 palliative care clinics across Kerala highlights that outpatient treatment with a supportive homecare service is now being adopted as the main mode of palliative care. A homecare team mainly consists of highly trained nurses, the patient’s family members, and also social workers, who travel in “Rickshaws” to visit the patient who…