Category: Palliative Care

Introduction The end-of-life phenomenon has always been a complicated issue for health care practitioners, families, and patients. This is because each of these parties has different interpretations in relation to the appropriateness of the available treatment alternatives. According to practitioners, changing the families and patients decisions from curative to palliative strategies depends on the ability…

Key Information: Authors and Topic Alleviating pain in patients with oncology issues is one of the crucial tasks faced by nurses in the modern healthcare setting (Paice et al., 2016). In their study, Bakitas et al. (2015) compare early and delayed palliative care management techniques. Primary quantitative analysis was conducted to determine the benefits and…

Table of Contents Introduction Avoiding the Misunderstanding Essential Discussion Before the Program Conclusion References Introduction Lois, a patient in the last stages of breast cancer, was recently admitted into a hospice program. Once a patient enters hospice care, curative treatments are typically no longer given. He was glad to have a hospice nurse come into…

End of life care is always associated with fundamental questions that can hardly be answered in many ways. Patients often feel depressed and unable to make decisions while healthcare professionals may also lack the necessary knowledge and health to ensure the high-quality end of life care. The insufficient knowledge of healthcare professionals is deeply rooted…

Animal-Assisted Therapy Animal-assisted therapy is a type of therapy that employs animals for motivational and educational purposes, to facilitate treatment and improve social, emotional, or cognitive state of patients. However, there is also a number of scientific works pointing out the gaps in research concerning animal-assisted literature, which are made worse with their methodological weaknesses…

Table of Contents Introduction Body Summary References Introduction Nurses play a crucial role in Palliative Care Setting providing communication and patients support for diverse patients groups. Palliative care has grown rapidly during the last two decades. Stimulated by the development of life-saving and monitoring techniques requiring specialized personnel and equipment, palliative care units developed in…

Palliative care is given to those who are nearing the last days of their lives when providing the best quality for remaining life is more significant than prolonging a miserable life (National Ethics Committee, 2007). Sometimes even aggressive high quality palliative care does not relieve them of symptoms like vomiting, dyspnoea and severe pain which…

The nature of medicine entails that those working in the field encounter grief and loss almost daily. Frequently, medical professionals need to perform a supportive function for those family members, relatives, or caregivers going through these feelings. Terminal patients are another category of people that may seek additional comfort and support from surrounding medical staff.…

Introduction This is a quality improvement initiative aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of implementing a palliative care assessment tool to enhance the knowledge of nurses working at a long term care facility, in identifying and referring patients for palliative care. In order to address patients who are in need of palliative care, it is vital…

Table of Contents Introduction Where Palliative Care Is Offered Persons Involved The People Who Receive Palliative Care How to Improve the Services Offered References Introduction Palliative care entails satisfying the bodily, rational, and social demands of patients or caregivers. It improves patients livelihood and ability to recover. This care applies to persons experiencing challenges related…