a nurse working in the home healthcare industry I always believed the goal of home healthcare services is to provide treatment to patients with chronic diseases and terminal illness. I also believe it is to assist the patient to regain their independence‚ decrease hospitalizations and help patients to learn to live with their illness or disability. When compared with acute care‚ we know that homecare services are delivered differently and in a less structured setting. Similar to acute care‚ health
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advantages and disadvantages for people who use it in their jobs or their daily lives. In addition‚ today we can see that jargon is used in many fields in our society. Medical professionals‚ for example‚ use a great deal of jargon to explain about the illness to their medical students or their patients. According to Perri Kiass‚ the author of the essay "She’s your basic L.O.L. in N.A.D."‚ medical jargon can be helpful but also harmful to the medical professional’s work. Personally‚ I completely agree with
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Angeles Times‚ Legal Drugs‚ Deadly Outcomes‚ reports on how prescription painkillers have evolved. For many years prescription painkillers were limited to cancer patients and others with terminal illnesses. The idea was that the risk of addiction outweighed the benefit of the painkiller to patients whose illness was not life-threatening. As society has evolved and physicians continued to argue that it’s inhuman not to prescribe painkillers to patients to ease moderate pain. In 2001‚ congress enacted
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Since its inceptions in Connecticut in 1974 number of hospice programs in the United States has grown steadily reaching over 4500 by 20006. Hospices care specializes in providing support and care for people in an advanced stage of a terminal illness to the end of their life. The primary focus of hospice is to enable people to live a pain-free life each day as good as it can be as health slowly declines till death. Hospice care is typically provided in freestanding hospice centers‚ hospitals‚ and
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Factors For and Against Marijuana should be legalized in the United States. Reasons for legalization (ranked from strongest to weakest) 1. Medical benefits for terminal illnesses such as cancer. 2. Police and court resources would be freed to pursue more serious crimes. 3. The FDA could regulate the quality and safety of the drug. 4. This drug has fewer side effects that most currently legal narcotics. 5. Legalization would lower prices‚ thereby reducing crimes such as theft. 6
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hospitalisation. Extent of the problem (trends) The scope of mental illness was estimated in 1997 in the National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing as part of the National Mental Health Strategy. It showed a number of trends: * An estimated 20 per cent of the Australian population aged between 16 and 85 had a mental disorder in the 12 months prior to the survey. * One in five Australian adults will suffer a mental illness at some stage in their life. * Women were more likely than men
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appear on the general election ballot. This initiative is a law which will enable those who are diagnosed with a terminal illness‚ to obtain lethal prescription medications and use them as a more comfortable‚ controlled means of death. An option provided to these terminally ill people as an alternative to the drawn out and unbearably painful final months of life produced by their illness. A more specific description of the initiative is as follows: “According to the text of the initiative‚ the proposed
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Should terminally ill patients have the right to die? Euthanasia refers to ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering. Terminal illness means any illness which ends in death and there is no possibility of recovery. So is it fair for terminally ill patients to suffer pain for longer than they need? And should they have the right to end their own life? People are usually eager to avoid death because they value being alive‚ because they have many things they wish to do‚ and experiences
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analysis is identifying the borderline case‚ related case and a contrary case (Wills & McEwen‚ 2014‚ p.58). The borderline case presented in the article had the patient have a vague idea of what their life would be lie after the diagnosis of the illness this could then result in the patient being prevented from adapting to their situation‚ however‚ the patient was able to reflect on past success and achievements (Nweze‚ et al‚ 2015‚ p.1028-1029). The related case identified concepts that were similar
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that requires the experience of a skilled physician to diagnose and treat multiple chronic conditions that are generally associated with elderly patients. Long-term care provides a variety of services to individuals who suffer from chronic illness or terminal condition‚ including people who live with a disability and are not adequately capable of taking care of themselves over the course of an extended period of time‚ without assistance. The services that long-term care provides include medical and
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