The Benefits Of Palliative Nursing

Palliative nursing is specialized care given to people with serious illnesses so as to improve their quality of life. It requires special kinds of nurses and doctors like the state tested nursing aides and the certified nursing aides. In order for a nurse to provide special care, one has to have special biomedical knowledge, be kind, patient and patient because the sight of dying elderly men and women is heartbreaking. It is also very testing because an aide might bond with a patient only for him or her to die, and it gets hard to adapt to seeing people they cared for dying so often. Improvement in quality of life for patients is the key mission of the palliative care which should be the driving force for all nurses (Hanson, Henderson, & Menon,
Their aim is to comfort the sick, provide spiritual and emotional well-being for the sick and to prepare the terminally ill for death to make their lives better. When choosing a suitable aid, it is important to consider their age, education and working experience. Research has shown that the aides aged between 18 and 25 years are not relatively fewer. The middle-aged between 26 and 45 years are the majority, maybe because they are mature and probably have experience while giving a family member special when sick. Those above 45 were however not recommended because they also have the capability to fall ill often or grow tired fast. When checking education background, those with only high school qualifications and below, as well as those who have university qualifications were the least likely to be found in this profession. Those with average qualifications like college or technical training skills are a majority in the job. The graduates might get condescending since most think that they are too good for the job or prefer other jobs that pay better and are easier. The more experience that a person is the better she or he is for the job (Forum,
Death is a serious issue and therefore not many people are comfortable to talk about that topic openly. Most people do this to spare the feelings of the dying but in a case of a nursing home full of chronically sick people, it is advisable to talk about it in details often. Talking about it helps ease the fear as much as possible. Another issue raised was that the palliative aides are not involved in making the decisions that affected them and, therefore, rated job satisfaction as a negative coefficient (Forbes-Thompson & Gessert, 2005). The population of the sick being taken to nursing homes is too high nowadays making quality car giving a problem since facilities are limited.
Since most problems in nursing homes are caused by having an uncontrollable population, they ought to limit the number of patients they accept. The nurses should be well vetted to ensure they have the right age, experience, and education qualifications. The aim should always be to make the patients as comfortable as possible before they die and as they go through tough times when