to be the ones to assess needs‚ provide spiritual care and serve as role models in care for the dying. Patients are involved in discussing their spiritual beliefs and are provided an
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principles of palliative care; Palliative care According to the World Health Organization (who) palliative care as “an approach that improves the quality of life of individuals and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness‚ through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems‚ physical ‚psychosocial and spiritual” End of life care can be in two situations‚ it is care in the last
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The didactic on palliative care helped me reflect on the importance of taking care of those who are around me. There are people who I am supposed to take care of because those are people who I have been put in charge in some way. For example‚ people at a parish where I am working as a seminarian intern or patients at a hospital where I am a chaplain intern. Those are people who I have to take care of and I do. However‚ there are other people who are around me and who are very important to me. For
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Hospice and Palliative Care Rather than seeking a cure as with traditional western medical practices‚ hospice and palliative care puts an emphasis on the quality of life by concentrating on symptom‚ pain‚ and stress reduction to alleviate patient suffering through the use of a multidisciplinary approach. This medical approach to patient care is deemed appropriate for patients with acute and chronic diseases‚ as well as for patients at the end of their life. While the palliative care treatment methodology
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There has been a lot of debate on whether or not palliative care is really effective. Amy Clements-Cortes (2016) wrote that “Up until 2005 most studies on palliative care music therapy were qualitative in nature‚” (pg. 127). Meaning it was more about quality over quantity‚ and Tracey McConnell‚ David Scott and Sam Porter (2016) explained in their article that “Qualitative research suggests that music therapy is beneficial to palliative care patients such as helping them express difficult emotions
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Employ a range of communication strategies and processes which are central to the work in palliative care Effective communication such as compassion‚ sensitivity‚ honesty and confidentiality are very important for those who are diagnosed with life limiting illness as they will go through a range of emotions such as anger‚ fear‚ sadness and confusion. Effective communication is very important for Individuals who have hearing impairment or speech difficulties. To be able to communicate effectively
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The American Holistic Nurse Association Position statement on Holistic Nursing Ethics informs us of several pertinent standards of care in disastrous conditions; we will review how the Nurses and Society approach applies in desolate times. Nurses and society emphasizes nurse working along with fellow citizens to begin and sustain activity to meet the health and social needs of others (Dossey & Keegan‚ 2016‚ p. 126). This is especially important in times of disasters; it appears as an innate response
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What is the research question? In "Palliative Care Nurses ’ Views on Euthanasia"‚ Verpoort et al (2004) are inquiring "what are the views of palliative care nurses about euthanasia"? "It is essential to know how nurses‚ who are confronted with terminally ill patients every day‚ think about it." (Verpoort et al‚ 2004‚ p. 592). Verpoort et al have taken the stance that nurses are scarcely heard in debates on the legalization of euthanasia in Belgium‚ and that nurses "are in a position to offer valuable
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Holistic healthcare In holism there is a belief that wellbeing is more than what is going on in the body physically in terms of illness or disease‚ but also on a deeper level with psychological‚ spiritual‚ emotional‚ social and environmental aspects. These aspects are all equally important and essential for optimal and sustainable health and wellbeing. In a holistic approach the health care provider aim to address and balance all pieces together to be able to prevent and solve any issues‚ illness
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The article I read was Children: A Protected Species in Palliative Care by Brian Nyatanga. The article describes palliative care as a death process in which the patient‚ family‚ and friends benefit from being involved throughout the tough situation. The article mainly focuses on how children are usually not involved or even informed of the patient’s health issue(s). Children are commonly not involved for varies reasons‚ but generally because the parents don’t want the child to become affected in
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