Tag: Palliative Care
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients 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
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Older People In Palliative Care Nursing Essay
Nursing Essays
Worldwide, populations are experiencing an increase in life expectancy with associated serious chronic illnesses towards the end of life (World Health Organisation (WHO), 2011). In the UK, 457,000 peo...
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Palliative Care
Nursing Essays
Individuals that have been deemed by their medical team to have serious diseases that are resistant, nonresponsive or have failed reasonable treatments are often referred to specialists for “com...
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Neonatal Palliative Care In Action
Nursing Essays
This theoretically focused paper aims to move beyond the rhetoric of espousing the importance and timeliness of a model of palliative care for the neonatal population, to explore how what is known alr...
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End of life care - child
Nursing Essays
Care of a child with end of life During my clinical rotation at children cancer hospital, I encountered a child of 6 years old who was going through relapse of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). Th...
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Spirituality and Sexuality in Palliative Care
Nursing Essays
Anjum zahoor Significance of spirituality and sexuality in palliative care According to WHO (2012) “Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their famil...
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End of Life and Palliative Care for Patients with HIV/AIDS
Nursing Essays
Students: Surendra Ramkissoon Rishi Gajadhar Introduction: During the 1980s, there was a rapid increase in the number of HIV/AIDS cases for which there was little treatment for both the individual ...
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Factors Impacting On The Effectiveness Of Palliative Care
Nursing Essays
Palliative care can vary significantly in its effectiveness according to condition, location, and type of patient (WHO, 2011; Gomes et al., 2013). This has long been recognised as an issue: Higginson ...
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Approaches to Palliative Care
Nursing Essays
Palliative approach refers to the provision of a holistic care for patients who are no longer responsive to curative treatment and dying. The approach provides primary care services to improve the qu...
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End of Life Care: Cancer Patients' Right to Die
Nursing Essays
Introduction Recently, the concept of patient autonomy has become more prevalent within the healthcare field with the government and the NHS promoting patient choice and providing assurance that indiv...
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