References: Assisted Suicide: Hospice Care as a Merciful Alternative. (2008). Hospice Foundation of America. Retrieved March 20‚ 2008‚ from http://hospicefoundation.org. Assisted Suicide: Laws Around the World. (March 1‚ 2005). Assisted Suicide. Retrieved March 20‚ 2008‚ from http://www.assistedsuicide.org
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discussed in this paper focus on the aspect of how hospice nurses care for their patients. Watson’s theory looks at the relationship between the patient and the nurse with her interpersonal caring. Interpersonal caring is a spiritual interaction between patient and nurse. She theorizes the need for the patient and nurse to have a “caring moment.” In some fields of nursing it is hard to find time to have a caring moment‚ but it can be done. In hospice‚ nurses are fortunate enough to have many opportunities
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According to Asera Care‚ the hospice team provides medical‚ emotional‚ practical‚ and spiritual support to people with terminal illness‚ and their families. The hospice nurse provides many things for the patient and the family. As a hospice nurse‚ some tasks you would do are providing nursing assessments‚ plan and care for the patient’s comfort‚ and you would be with the family until the patients’ last day. Some of the transferable skills needed to go into the hospice field is being structured‚ independent
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prewriting; otherwise‚ the content of your piece will not be accurate. Topic: Alesha Monk working at a hospice center Attitude/Point: That it takes a special person to work at a facility with terminally ill people Audience: Families that have terminally ill family members Purpose: To Inform Topic Sentence: It takes a special person to work at a facility for terminal ill people‚ because the goal in a hospice center is to make the patient as comfortable as possible for the remaining days on earth. Brainstorm
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equal access to health and health care services. This type of community is located in rural and urban areas. A clinic may also be considered as an underserved. I remember when I volunteered to be helping hand at Aventura Hospital’s hospice center with VITAS Innovative Hospice Care. Before starting‚ I had to attend a workshop and training session. I became a little skeptical and wondered if I would be able to handle people that know that they are at the end of their lives. This was before I wanted to
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The Legalization of Physician Assisted Suicide Of all the controversial topics to I could have chosen to discuss‚ the topic of physician assisted death is one that seems to be very taboo‚ even to date. Oregon is the only state to successfully pass a bill legalizing the practice; this bill is called the Death With Dignity Act (DWDA). Some may confuse physician-assisted death with euthanasia‚ yet they are two completely different acts. Euthanasia requires a physician‚ or other entity‚ to administer
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Journal 4: The Alzheimer’s Patient Over the semester‚ I have been blessed with the opportunity to build a relationship with J‚ an Alzheimer’s patient‚ through hospice care. In class‚ we discussed the aging systems in the body and one of them happened to be Alzheimer’s. We defined it as a neurodegenerative disease that causes problems with memory‚ thinking and behavior that is associated with intracellular neurofibrillary tangles and extracellular amyloid beta plaques. Although this histology is
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of such HIPAA violations as well as solutions or ways each violation could have been prevented. In 2010‚ The Hospice of North Idaho‚ located in Hayden Idaho had a security breach compromising 441 patients’ health information. In the security breach‚ an unencrypted laptop containing patients’ information was stolen. After investigation‚ the Office for Civil Rights learned that the hospice did not have the adequate policies required by HIPAA law concerning technical safeguards in the Security Rule
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more acceptable. I would like to touch on a very sensitive matter‚ end-of-life care with a cultural component. Asian Americans and the Pacific Islanders are among the rapidly growing ethnic groups in the United States yet they have a low rate of hospice use (Warren et. al‚ 2002). We have learned that in the Asian culture‚ they have a family-centered model of decision making. The principle of "filial piety"‚ which
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University of Phoenix Material Health Services and Systems Matrix Choose at least seven services or systems from the following list: Hospice care World Health Organization (WHO) Public health Rehabilitation center Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Medicare Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS Center for Disease Control (CDC) Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
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