Caring for a terminally ill patient can be a difficult task for a nurse. Caring for a dying patient from a different country with different culture and beliefs can be even more uncomfortable. The cultural knowledge deficit of Middle Eastern Americans in the United States is astonishing (Lipson & Meleis, 1983, p. 855). To give competent care to patients from different countries, healthcare workers must expand their comprehension of different cultural backgrounds. Middle Eastern Americans population
The Right to Die “The hardest part of losing a loved one, isn’t having to say goodbye, but rather seeing them suffer from the pain”. Many individuals have not been able to answer the question: should terminally ill patients have the right to end their lives? Terminally ill patients should have a right to end their own lives with dignity rather than suffering from agony, because the pain is unbearable, families watch love one’s die slowly, and patients become extremely depressed. On the other hand
Terminally ill patients should have the right to choose when they die. For six months you are forced to watch your once energetic and full of life father become completely bedridden as the massive doses of chemotherapy used during his bone marrow transplant destroy his liver and kidneys. The bone marrow transplant has technically been successful, but the graft-versus-host disease has set in, and his intestines are bleeding. The only way to combat the graft-versus-host disease is to give him major
Palliative care is the standard option to care for the terminally ill. Palliative care focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness. 4 However, for some patients palliative care isn’t enough to alleviate the excruciating pain and suffering. When palliative care is deemed ineffective, what other options does a patient have during his or her last minutes of life? A physician’s goal is to care for their patient but how is prolonging pain and suffering considered
The terminally ill patient’s death is imminent, isn’t death a natural cause of universe, imminent for all and not limited to the terminally ill? While euthanasia might be “Mercy Killing”, it does not differentiate it from an act of murder and neither and thus not justify. Euthanasia is the intentional killing of a patient for the patient’s sake either passive by withholding or withdrawing treatment or active through direct involvement. This subject is a controversial topic debated for quite some
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
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 patient are, evaluating if this act is a virtue of kindness prompted by
This case study is about a hospice for terminally ill patients called Omega House. In 1990 the Social Action Consortium (SAC) took responsibility over the hospice after the last group had gone to bankrupt. SAC provided many other services in addition to Omega House. Ellen was a full time nurse that became the program manager at Omega House. She was the program director and clinical oversight of patient care. However at the time she had no managerial experience. SAC promised her with training, but
Terminally ill patients should be allowed to do whatever they wish, for they are going to die anyway. If they want to cut that string a little earlier than the scheduled and having to deal with that pain, then they should be allowed that medication that will end their life in a painless way. It is selfish to keep someone who is going through so much pain, that they want to die, alive and forcing them to ‘just deal with it’ as if it was nothing. As if they were not already going to die. We, the United
Travis Kimmick Professor Dean English 100 21 February 2017 Hospice - Rough Draft At some point in a terminally ill person 's life, there comes a time when all treatment options have been exhausted, and patient comfort is the number one priority. During this process, hospice care comes into play to ensure quality of life of a patient. Pain management and supportive services are provided to anyone who is willing by Medicare, and other government assistance programs, for individuals and families