531 Search Results for Palliative Care
Chronic Wound Care: Nursing Assessment
And Intervention
Chronic Wound Care: Nursing Assessment and Intervention
Chronic Wound Care: Nursing Assessment and Intervention
Chronic wounds are a challenge for both the clinician and the patient. For the Continue Reading...
Hawaiian elder care professionals improve patient eldercare services to Japanese nationals, taking into consideration Japanese cultural norms and expectations
Caregiving for elderly parents in Japan
Japan has witnessed a significant growth in its Continue Reading...
Home Care for Veterans
Needs Analysis
Training Goals and Specific Instructional Objectives
Location, Attendees, Time
Methods and Media
Training Evaluation Methods
Sample Lesson Plan
Home Care for Veterans
Home care for veterans is a much need Continue Reading...
Roles and ValuesA. Discuss the evidenced-based practice regarding advance directive DNRNursing care is purposed to meet the comprehensive needs of both the patients and their families throughout their healthcare process. This is especially fundamenta Continue Reading...
Blog -- APRN Quality Improvement Project
Blog: Provider-Associated Barriers to Hospice Referrals
The process of writing the quality improvement project for improving hospice referrals for patients suffering from end-stage dementia care was very ins Continue Reading...
Hospice Staff, Volunteers, and Hospice Patients
There are very few critics of the Hospice organization, and rightfully so. Who could criticize such a helpful, vital organization? Indeed, if Hospice wasn't available to provide their pivotal services Continue Reading...
Introduction
The progressive care unit (PCU) is a practice setting in which the researcher’s health care team is often failing to meet quality care objectives according to patient reporting on the hospital consumer assessment of healthcare prov Continue Reading...
Organizational Structure
The healthcare organization that this paper will focus on is Carolinas Healthcare System. In particular, this is one of the top healthcare organizations in the Southeast region and one of the most wide-ranging, non-profit he Continue Reading...
Nursing theory drew much attention in the last century, and it continues to drive professional expansion and growth in nursing today. This text covers some of the theorists in the field of nursing, and their works. The nurses of the past provided gre Continue Reading...
Niacin and Increased Cholesterol Levels
For most people struggling with undesirable levels of cholesterol that cannot be enhanced sufficiently through diet and exercise, prescribed statin drugs are usually the recommended treatment options. One of t Continue Reading...
Geriatric Population
What is the best way to assure that older people are well cared for in an acute healthcare setting? What are the roles that nurses should play when it comes to providing the best possible care to older, frail people? These ques Continue Reading...
ethical hospice care is that it must be founded upon honesty. "Frank discussions about death and dying, clarifying knowledge of the underlying illness and knowledge of the dying process" is essential (Guido 2010: 35). However, this must be balanced Continue Reading...
Adult Day Care Industry Analysis
Adult day care centers are non-residential facilities that provide and support the health, nutrition and social needs of adults. They are usually staffed with professionals and the adults are kept in groups to provid Continue Reading...
Life Care
End-of-life care may be one of the most difficult aspects of healthcare services. After all, the goal of most healthcare providers is to heal, and providing end-of-life requires a shift in perspective. One of the challenges in planning en Continue Reading...
Faith Diversity
Diversity Faith Expressions
Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity
Health care professionals working at different levels meet several patients that belong to different regions of the world and have different faiths. Although, eve Continue Reading...
The Affordable Care Act means that health coverage will be required for almost every American and will be partially subsidized. However, it will not change the employer-centric, private-insurer-based system of financing and coverage. Demand for care Continue Reading...
Medical care at Home Vs. Medical Care at the HospitalAround 4.5 million people in the United States require end-of-life or long-term care annually. Also, the United States has, in a pretty big way, changed healthcare delivery perspectives within the Continue Reading...
IntroductionSaying that COVID-19 has been devastating to nations and their citizens seems to be an understatement. The impact that the virus has had on the wellbeing, livelihoods, as well as lives of people not only in the U.S. but across the world i Continue Reading...
A Model Healthcare Delivery System
Introduction
The healthcare delivery system also referred to in short as the HCDS is the most effective system that works for most healthcare organizations in all countries with fair, effective and efficient distrib Continue Reading...
Using Technology in Diabetes Management HealthCare in Long-term Healthcare Facilities
The long-term care facilities most often deal with the aging population in the society. This group of people has a low immune system that predisposes them to variou Continue Reading...
environmental analysis helps any organization to recognize factors that impact its performance. The factors impacting an organization's performance may be internal to the organization and they can also be external. Environmental analysis is therefor Continue Reading...
, 2007). The nurses at the medical-surgical, trauma, neurological, cardiovascular, cardiology and transplant sections directly and personally confront the various needs of families of the death of a loved one. One nursing author, Jane Felgen, set for Continue Reading...
Moral Meanings of Caring for the Dying
When it comes to taking care of the dying, there is so much to consider. Nurses who care for dying patients are often forced to start seeing the world differently, mostly because they become very close to the p Continue Reading...
How Doctors of Nursing Practice Can Influence the Quality of HealthcareToday, doctors of nursing practice (DNPs) serve as nurse educators, researchers, and administrators as well as serving in vital healthcare leadership roles in their local communit Continue Reading...
Q1. Given the two pieces of evidence, what are the key clinical questions to consider when caring for this patient?First, given the patients fragile health, age, and that the care given to the patient is primarily palliative, there is the need to eas Continue Reading...
Hospice care is a kind of philosophy and care that centers on the palliation of a patient who is seriusly or terminally ill. Hospice care includes tending to the patient's pain and symptoms as well as their emotional and spiritual needs. The proposed Continue Reading...
Team Communication
An interdisciplinary team is formed from a group of health care providers belonging to different fields of health sciences; they work together as a team to bring the best possible outcome for patient. The efficiency of this team i Continue Reading...
Cultural Diversity
Healthcare providers deal with people and family during stressful and difficult situations. Professionals delivering palliative care must understand how culture and religious background affect this interaction. The provision of a Continue Reading...
GERONTOLOGICAL & GRIATRIC NURSING
Nursing Paper-Gerontological & Griatric Nursing
End of Life Issues and the Elderly
(2) "Identify and discuss the role of the nurse in providing family centred care to an elderly client who is palliative a Continue Reading...
led by Venkatesan Prem conducted a research on nurses' knowledge regarding palliative care. This research was influenced by the fact that inadequate knowledge of a palliative care among these professionals is well-documented across various studies o Continue Reading...
These included guidelines from the Australian National Breast Cancer Center and the Australian National Cancer Control Initiative; an updated systematic review of the research evidence, and a consensus by the Clinician -- Patient Communica-tions Wor Continue Reading...
Denial in the Death and Dying Process
Identification of the Problem: Denial and Subsequent Lack of Communication of the Impending Death
Death is a natural phenomenon and has been there since the existence of mankind. In the past, people used to ac Continue Reading...
Beneficence
The field of nursing is shaped by a range of ethical principles; while all of these concepts are important, one could argue that perhaps the most crucial ethical principle is that of beneficence. "Beneficence is the obligation to do good Continue Reading...
Who provides the care is dependent upon the patient and the type of care their illness requires. Also, some families are more active in taking care of end of life patients than other families.
Indeed, hospice care providers have a significant numbe Continue Reading...
Nursing Case Study and Theoretical Knowledge of Healthcare System
Significant evidence shows that the responsibilities of the primary and acute care nurses vary significantly. The variation creates differences in the scope of work for the nurses, as Continue Reading...