Category: Palliative Care

Animal Assistance Therapy in Palliative Care 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…

The Role of the Nurse in a Palliative Care Setting. 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…

Beneficiaries of Palliative Care 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…

Palliative Care and Hospice Programs Misunderstanding 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…

Curative and Palliative Choices 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…

Nurses Knowledge about Palliative Care: Article Critique Background and Significance The authors used the introduction to contextualize the problem using published research, stating the importance of palliative care and its need by the aging population. They discuss how the increase of chronic non-communicable disease and increased population aging leads to the global need for palliative…

Palliative Care, Philosophy, Concepts and Debates: Argumentative Essay What is your understanding of Palliative Care? The definition of Palliative care is constantly changing. In the early 1970s the term palliative care was introduced by Balfour Mount Medicine (AAHPM) defines palliative care as  to prevent and relieve suffering and to support the best possible quality…

Justice as Fairness: Annotated Bibliography on Palliative Care Palliative care improves the quality of life and diminishes symptoms for individuals diagnosed with a serious illness. Also, it assists patients to understand all of their choices for medical treatment. It is useful at any stage of the illness, but is most effective if provided from the…

Essay on Interpretation of Hospice & Palliative Care Centre and Definition of Related Terminologies Aim To provide the relief from pain and care for the patients who are at the last stage of cancer, by creating spaces related to activities which a soothing effect on the inhabitants which eventually acts generate as a stress reliever.…

The Benefits of Palliative Care: Case Study Discussion Questions 1 The benefits of palliative care for a patient with a terminally ill disease are numerous. First, palliative care follows a patient-centered holistic approach that focuses on the mind, body, and spirit. Palliative treatment includes the psychosocial, spiritual, pain management and management of symptoms that are…