Introduction: Palliative care also referred to as end-of life care (Mosca, Blazer, Wheeler and Abernethy, 2011), is a clinical issue which focuses on treating symptoms, relieving suffering, and providing support to the patient and their family (Hauser et al., 2011). Castro (2015) further defines palliative care as providing comfort through pain relief, attaining a high quality of life and preserving the self-respect and self-confidence of a patient (p. 13). Palliative amputation is a type of surgery
summer of 2015 semester I had the opportunity to intern with Hospice & Palliative Care Center located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Hospice and Palliative Care Center is an organization that stands behind its mission to provide compassionate care for those with a life-limiting illness, and their families, through quality medical, emotional, spiritual and social support (Hospice & Palliative Care Center, 2015). Hospice and Palliative Care Center is a place where patients can spend their last days
that kind of thing. In this paper, issues surrounding inadequacies of Palliative care in Nigeria will be examined. Health care should be a necessary right for everyone irrespective of age, gender, religious tendency, educational background, social status, and race or color during any illness and especially when nearing the end of life. According to the centre for advance palliative care: “Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients
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
to hospice and palliative care. Therefore, nurses today are not adequately prepared to deliver this type of specialized care. The population of individuals in need of hospice and/or palliative care continue to grow. Consequently, there is a need for dedicated hospice and palliative care facilities within the communities. This community partnering project will describe the need for further end of life education for nurses, as well as the need to support end of life hospice and palliative care services
Introduction Hospice palliative care is a form of health care that attempts to maintain and provide the best quality of life that is possible for patients facing life-threatening illnesses. This type of care is not only provided for the patient themselves, but also for their families and loved ones. According to the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (2002): Hospice palliative care aims to relieve suffering and improve the quality of living and dying. Hospice palliative care is appropriate
End of life care is something that is becoming extremely prevalent today. This end of life care is referred to as Hospice. Here, patients who are terminally ill may be placed in Hospice care, where they will be under constant supervision and will be cared for. However, although Hospice is an ongoing process that exists everyday, there are few people who really know exactly what Hospice is and what it consists of. Upon further reading, it is hopeful that one will get a better sense of understanding
transform the way I practiced social work for the last fourteen years. The timing ideal as my passion for palliative and hospice care social work was in transition. I seized the opportunity in preserving it by securing an international internship where I could research the cultural differences in the quality of both the tangible and intangible deliverables in providing compassionate end-of-life care. The destination, Nepal! Knowing I was traveling to an underdeveloped nation, I did my homework, or did
Introduction According to the National Hospice and Palliative Care organization, in 2011, an estimated 1.651 million patients received services from hospice care, while 1,059,000 patients passed away from this form of care in the same year (NHPCO pdf, 2012). Hospice end of life cares mission/goal is to provide compassionate care for patients and their families who are living with a life limiting illness. This type of medical service gives expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual
Palliative care is a relatively new concept, stemming from the hospice movement of the 1960s. This type of care focuses on the quality of life of its patients at any time in their treatment process. Palliative care is a concept that is often used synonymously with hospice care. Although it can be congregated with hospice care, they are not the same thing. Thus, it can easily be misunderstood. Sherner (2015) explains that both clinicians and people alternate palliative care and hospice. Unfortunately