Palliative Care for Cancer Patients - Dissertation Planet.
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End-of-life care in the critical care setting: Nurses’ practices and factors affecting these practices. Kristen Louise Ranse. BNurs (Hons) MCritCare Nursing. Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) School of Nursing and Midwifery. Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation. Queensland University of Technology. February 2013. ii.
Palliative care for end of life patients has many aspects, but management of moderate to severe pain is perhaps of the most concern for patients, family members and care providers. In order to provide comprehensive pain control, pain and related symptoms must be accurately assessed by nurses, and pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic measures must be appropriately implemented. Health care.
End of life ethics has been stuck in something of a philosophical rut for some time, often involving endless re-hashing of the euthanasia debate or subsumed under more general topics such as the nature of autonomy. This is a shame given that it provides us with some particularly powerful ethical dilemmas, both as individuals and as society, concerning how we confront the universal human.
End of Life Issues The purpose of this assignment is to help gain an understanding of ethical dilemmas revolving around end of life issues that may have been encountered during care for a patient. This paper will discuss one experience from my role transition that presented an end of life issue that interested me. The issue was a 90 year old female patient, I.W., who came into the emergency.
This guideline covers organising and delivering end of life care services, which provide care and support in the final weeks and months of life (or for some conditions, years), and the planning and preparation for this. It aims to ensure that people have access to the care that they want and need in all care settings. It also includes advice on services for carers.
Barriers to providing palliative care in acute hospitals are not well understood and there is a paucity of published literature in this area, particularly in relation to older people. This study contributes to the limited UK evidence base by exploring the perspectives of health professionals regarding barriers to optimal palliative care for older people in acute hospitals.