This critique reviewed a quantitative study based upon palliative care and how it met emotional or spiritual needs of the families of patients with serious illnesses. The critique used eight criteria to analyze the quantitative study. The criteria include the identification of the problem, the determination of the purpose of the study, the review of the literature, the selection of the sample size and the research design, methods for collecting the data, the analysis of the data, study findings as
identify relevant evidence from the nursing literature supporting the lack of palliative care being provided to heart failure patients, and the barriers impeding these services. PubMed was used to locate the primary nursing research article on September 25, 2015. This database contains archives of medical and life sciences journal literature for the U.S. National Institutes of Health. “Heart failure” and “palliative care” were the initial search terms used, yielding 5,958 search results. To further
because palliative care is often considered a form of end-of-life care. Palliative care is a treatment that can be used for patients who suffer from chronic illnesses and diseases while receiving curative treatment. (Horowitz, Grambling & Quill, 2014) purposely states the misconceptions of palliative care and advocated for seriously ill patients that education must bring under control the misconceptions. Some patients do not receive appropriate symptom management because the palliative care treatment
of Life Care: A Global View of Palliative Care (2007), the development of palliative and hospice care service has reached around half of the 234 countries. Although more than half of the globe recognized the need of palliative and hospice care, only 15% of the countries has integrated palliative and hospice care policy. The IOELC developed a four-part typology describing the levels of hospice and palliative care development around the globe. These are: 1) No known hospice-palliative care activity
nalyzing the concept of Palliative care Mauricio A. Barrera Appalachian State University School of Nursing 2 Throughout life and individual can experience a myriad of unexpected developments can which can have a dramatic effect on their lifestyle and how they are able to communicate with others. Comorbidities are the multiple appearances of a serious chronic disease like cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cardiovascular disease, or diabetes, which have a negative effect
Introduction Palliative care is the end of life care that includes a period of time during which an individual copes with his or her declining health from an ultimately terminal illness, through chronic illness (Lubkin & Larsen, 2012).Palliative care seeks to prevent and relieve suffering and to support the best possible quality of life for patients and their families regardless of their stage of disease (Holtz, 2012). Additionally, palliative care preserves a patient’s quality of life and provides
life‐sustaining treatment in intensive care: A qualitative descriptive study in australia and new zealand. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(5-6), pp. 690-697. doi:10.1111/jocn.13585 The purpose of this article is to examine how nurses interact and communicate with families of patients that are withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. This is a qualitative study and the population is 21 intensive care unit nurses. The research question was: how do critical care nurses navigate communication with families
Ms. Melissa Arena, RHIT, CHC, HIM Manager and Corporate Compliance Officer at St. Ann’s Community in Rochester, NY, was interviewed on December 7, 2015. The interview started with asking Ms. Arena if she could talk a little bit about herself and what her position is. She continued to say that her current position was her second career, she was a mortgage loan processor back in the 80’s and 90’s. Ms. Arena had gotten laid off from three separate mortgage companies before she realized she needed a
Topic: Treating patients and service users with respect, dignity and compassion. My two research papers are entitled ‘The development of a model of dignity in illness based on qualitative interviews with seriously ill patients’ , Van Gennip et al.(2013) and ‘The effect of the Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying: a multi-centre study’ , Veerbeek et al. (2008). To open I must state that I really struggled to find relevant articles with methods. The first article, van Gennip et al.(2013) I attained
Roles and Palliative Care Families The field of palliative care offers nurses unique opportunities to engage with families on multiple levels. According Stayt (as cited in Ingleton, Chatwin, Seymour & Payne, 2011), “If nurses perceive role confusion during the care of dying patients and their families this increases the degree of stress experienced, limiting effectiveness in proving care and compounding their grief response” (p. 212). Clarifying nursing roles is vital to providing quality care to patients