Quality Of Life In Palliative Care Research

Palliative care is designed for patient who have been diagnosed with chronic-illness, life-threatening illness and acute onset of diseases that are life-threatening. Palliative care offers pain relief, symptom relief, counseling, and it enhance quality of life. A patient who has been referred to palliative care doesn’t mean they are dying and they can still seek a treatment options. Hospice care is a part of palliative care; hospice is for patient that the doctor has giving them a short time to live. In the hospital setting palliative care is offered but it’s not its own unit, so the nurse to patient ratio is 1:15. During a time in which my grandmother was hospitalized and diagnosed with uterine cancer she given days to live after being in
Days before expiring the doctor told our family they were placing her on palliative care but did not give the family any understanding what palliative care was. She didn’t receive 1:1 nurse to patient ratio and there was no compassion. The nurse was still working with other patients on the floor and at times she waited over an hour for pain medication. The BMC health service did a research on improving quality of life in palliative care patients; where they identified the hospitals as not being equipped with the proper interventions for patients on palliative care After doing research this is a problem many hospitals have they lack communication between patient and families to understand what palliative care is, there is no individualized healthcare team and no compassion from
Hospitals strive to give patients the best care and the best health care teams. Hospitals based palliative care approach has significant value and there is now ample evidence showing positive outcomes for patients receiving hospital-based palliative care (twaddle, 2016.) Training is available for compassion and palliative care in many hospitals. Hospitals have been operating centuries with the same practice policies. Over the years the medical teams in the hospitals have changed in the scope of practice. Licensed practical nurses are no longer in the hospitals and certified nursing assistance has taken place. Policies in the hospital seem to make sense more for their budget then patient care. Hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 patients in 2006 when CNAs entered the hospital(Monegain,2010.) New studies show now that LPNs are reentering into the hospital infection rates have decreased 50 percent in blood stream infections (CDC and prevention,2016.) This shows every policy change that hospital make are not for the best of patient but they are willing to change when patients are jeopardy. If hospital implement the policy change for palliative care patient their patient care will improve and patients would be more willing to live out their days in the hospital. Families would be more willing to leave their families without worrying if their needs are being met. Hospital offering