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
Palliative care in the field of pediatrics is an area of care which aims to improve the quality of life not only for children who have life-threatening illnesses, but also addresses the well-being of their families as they embark on this stressful journey with them. This is done by taking into account four main areas of the patients and their families: psychosocial, emotional, spiritual, and physical. The main goal is to not treat the illness itself, but to help in relieving the suffering of those
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
physical or mental" [6]The palliative care nurse practitioner plays an important role by managing symptoms and for caring for the entire family. Palliative care nurse practitioners are skilled in guiding families through the complex situations of hospitalization and care at home. In addition Palliative care nurse coordinators have knowledge of resources within the hospital and the community. They generally have experience working with agencies that provide children with nursing care, equipment and therapies
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
Case study: Depression of patient with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer and palliative care FadiFawares Rabe'e Haddad Faculty of Nursing The University of Jordan May 2015 Supervised by: Dr. Amani Khalil Case study: Depression of patient with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer and palliative care Introduction: Lung cancer is one of the most popular type of cancer that cause of cancer-related death in the world, and most common with female rather than male. (cancer.org.2014)
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
important factor and issue. Older patients want to live out their life, but they cannot do that if these services are limited. Seniors often take the surgical path in order for them to improve their state. They do not really consider the option of palliative care. It’s a great