How to Achieve Compassionate Care with the Patient and the Caregiver in Terminally Ill Patients

the society. As medical science has shown marked significant advances which improved the chances of survival for many patients with life threatening illness on the contrary, whether to resuscitate or not is always being an ongoing topic for debate. CPR was first described in 1950s and 1960s by Kouwenhoven, Jude and Knickerbocker in order to give hope of restoring life of many patients by extraordinary measures includes chest compression, electric shock, ventilation and injecting lifesaving medications…

Uncontrolled haemorrhage in patients with multi-trauma is the most common cause of shock and preventable death (Sweeney, 2013). Optimisation of haemoglobin concentration by blood transfusion remains a treatment priority in these patients (Mitra et al., 2007) and subsequently, a massive blood transfusion is the most effective treatment. A massive blood transfusion is defined as the replacement of a patient’s entire blood volume or transfusion of 10 or more blood units within a 24-hour period (Hess…

Terminally Ill Patients' and End of Life Care: A Multidisciplinary Concept Analysis Jennifer Thompson UTA Analysis of Theories in Nursing Nurs 5327 Ronda Mintz-Binder, RN, MSN, DNP April 19, 2014 Terminally Ill Patients' and End of Life Care: A Multidisciplinary Concept Analysis With an aging population in our country we are facing an increasing number of patients’ that are coming to the end of their lives and are presenting with terminal illness. As life expectancy increases we are seeing more…

Should Terminally Ill Patients Have the Right to Die? The right to die movement entered the United States in 1980, when a man helped his dying wife ends her life. This man then found the Hemlock Society - an organization that would help terminally ill patients die in peace, and advocated for laws supporting physician assisted suicide. After this event, the movement took charge, finding itself being argued in court numerous times. Debates went on as more and more doctors were being charged with murder…

For decades each field of medicine and the treatment of patients have been singled out and looked at as an independent specialty. This is not only the case in the United States but also in the United Kingdom. Recently different fields have begun to explore the possibilities that they are more similar to one another than different, and that Hospice Care is more than care for the terminally-ill cancer patients. In an article drafted by Wayne McCormick, “a member of the American Geriatrics…

Terminally Ill Patients and Physician Assisted Suicide For hundreds of years a doctor was sworn into practice with the Oath of Hippocrates. Although in the present time parts of the oath have oath has come into question on how they should be interrupted. "To do no harm," the question is what does one consider harm? With our modern technology in medicine our medical community has the ability to prolong a person's life for quite awhile. So the question now is to prolong a person's life that…

of older adults experiencing depression is three to five times that of older adults residing in the community (Glaister & Blair, 2008). The need for recognition and proper treatment of depression will be great. With nurses on the frontlines of patient care and communication, it is essential that they be fully educated about proper assessment and treatment of depression. Studies found that depression rates among nursing home residents ranged from 9 to 75% (Choi, Ransom, &Wyllie, 2008). Depression…

regarding how to properly treat a individual who want to end there own life. Controversial views have always been made against those who suggest that terminally ill or incurably suffering people should be allowed to ask for and receive help to die if they so wish. The same set of arguments in opposition toward euthanasia is, that life is sacred and by legalizing physician assisted suicide would lead to abuses by the medical field. A fundamental question concerning hastening the death of a terminally ill…

be rendered obsolete. Therefore in patient care one of the most important assessments all healthcare providers must prioritise is the assessment of the patient’s airway patency and breathing function and in doing so identify and rectify any potentially life threatening abnormalities. Maintaining the mechanics of breathing allows the respiratory functions, vital to the homeostatic balance to remain prosperous and improve the prognosis of the recovering patient. During the course of this essay the…

Assumptions And Principles Underlying Standards For Care of The Terminally Ill Introduction There is agreement that patients with life-threatening illnesses, including progressive malignancies, need appropriate therapy and treatment throughout the course of illness. At one stage, therapy is directed toward assessment and intervention in order to control and/or to cure such illness and alleviate associated symptoms. For some persons, however, the time comes when cure and remission are beyond current…