photo novellas to test the creative aptitude of nurses working in oncology and palliative care. Researchers asked how they defined spirituality and were told to select between four to six photographs out of a photo novella they captured from their w Continue Reading...
Palliative care has gone under a lot of changes as the years have progressed. Just like how general care has been advanced for the sick in areas such as pharmacology and medical engineering, palliative care has also been given much importance. Palli Continue Reading...
Hisory of Palliatve Care Palliative Care Palliative Care Methods Palliative care entails assisting patients get through pain caused by different diseases. The patient may be ailing from any diseases, be it curable or untreatable. Even patient who Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Evolution of Palliative Care: From Past to Present: This essay would explore the historical development of palliative care, tracing its roots from ancient civilizations to the modern healthcare system. It will examine key Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Importance of Communication in Palliative Care: This essay would explore how effective communication between healthcare professionals, patients, and families is crucial in palliative care. It would discuss the impact of c Continue Reading...
Will's desire to withdrawal all life support and refuse his treatment is supported by legal precedent, even though it is likely that his refusal of treatment will result in his death. Conversely, Will does not have the legal right to demand treatmen Continue Reading...
Palliative care is a specialty that is relatively new but that has evolved steadily over the past few decades. Its goal is providing advanced cancer patients with end of life care. Its rise was because of the public's growing dissatisfaction and conc Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Role of Communication in Palliative Care: This essay would explore the critical importance of effective communication between healthcare providers, patients, and families in palliative care sett Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Role of Palliative Care in Improving Quality of Life for Terminal Patients: This essay would explore how palliative care, through its holistic approach, seeks to alleviate the suffering and improve the quality of life Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Evolution of Hospice Care: Tracing Its Historical Roots and Contemporary Practices: This essay topic would explore the historical development of hospice care, from its origins to the current models Continue Reading...
Medical procedures, like chemotherapy and radiation, are frequently used to alleviate pain and symptoms and for cure. Intravenous medications tackle pain but are also costlier than other forms. The appearance of new and costlier drugs blurs the fine Continue Reading...
Joint Commission To determine the spiritual needs of patients and the impact it is having on their treatment options requires focusing on four different questions. These include: What are the long-term effects of using spiritualism with modern medi Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. Examining the Psychological and Emotional Support Provided by Hospice Care: This topic explores the significance of hospice care in addressing the psychological and emotional needs of terminally ill Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Ethical Dimensions of End-of-Life Care in Nursing: This essay will explore the ethical challenges and moral dilemmas nurses face when providing care to patients at the end of their lives. It will ex 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...
It is related that "This patterns of delayed referral does more than deprive individuals of palliative care-it jeopardizes hospice programs themselves. To be financially viable, hospice programs, which receive per diem reimbursements, must be able t 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...
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...
For elderly patients who have no one to appoint as their proxy, completing a living will that outlines their wishes is preferable to not providing any information at all about care preferences. This is equally so for patients who want to provide the Continue Reading...
The authors describe findings from a survey designed to gather baseline data about changes organizations experience after implementing the Clinical Practice Model framework, and report how the Clinical Practice Model Resource Center staff used the s Continue Reading...
In 1990, 22,500 patients were dead due to non-treatment accounting for as much as 17.5% of all deaths. More than 1000 patients who did not fully satisfy the criteria for euthanasia were given lethal injections. In one case Dr. Chabot, a psychiatrist Continue Reading...
Compassionate Fatigue Compassion, Fatigue, Caregiver Burnout, And Related Issues Many healthcare providers such as the nurses, doctors, and physiotherapists among other individuals enter healthcare filed with the key objective of helping others and Continue Reading...
That is to say that relationships are considered above and beyond medical reasoning. "Futility would not be measured by the medical effect on the patient but by the effect on social relationships" (2000, p. 140). This means that even if a physician Continue Reading...
Elephant in the Room Project is a research that was conducted for the purpose of improving the efficiency of care through effective and compassionate communication with palliative care patients. The research recognized that nursing is not only a scie Continue Reading...
It is also important to distinguish between the subjective or personal view of quality of life and the professional's objective evaluation of the health status of individuals (Tyrrell et al., 2005, p. 375). With regard to the patient's quality of l Continue Reading...
While various types of medical/religious practice had long attempted to prolong life, the emphasis of these efforts beginning during this period was placed on forestalling death. Views of Death in the Modern Era The trends that began in the Renais Continue Reading...
Women's Health -- Focused on prevention and care for breast health, mammography, etc. Transplant Programs - Swedish is one of seven kidney transplant centers and one of just four liver transplant centers serving the entire Pacific Northwest. The O Continue Reading...
Nightingale met a friend Richard Monckton Miles in 1842. Then in 1844, Nightingale asked Dr. Howe if she could do a charitable job in a hospital like the catholic nuns, and refused her marriage to her cousin, Henry Nicholson. By 1845, Nightingale st Continue Reading...
Physician Assisted Suicide in Patients With Unbearable Suffering or the Terminally Ill One of the most hotly debated issues today is physician-assisted suicide. Recently, California became the fifth state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, and Continue Reading...
Hospice affirms life and neither hastens nor postpones death" ("Preamble and Philosophy," NHPCO, 2010). The NHPCO formal mission statement is: "To lead and mobilize social change for improved care at the end of life" ("Mission & Vision," NHPCO, Continue Reading...
LTC choices for UPSA members Introduction LTC (Long Term Care) is an attempt at assisting people of any age with their daily activities and/or medical needs for an extended duration of time (WebMD, 2019). This type of care may be offered in various c Continue Reading...
Long-Term Care Affordability: A Policy Brief Issue Affecting Canadian Health Care System The Canadian health care system is changing, characterised by reduced hospital stays, increased outpatient treatment as well as the aging population, because of Continue Reading...
Nurses can frame a personalized clinical plan accordingly. The plan can empower the patient as well as his nurse. By using a family-centered model approach, the nurse can collaborate closely with the patient's family, who knows his temperament bette Continue Reading...
The hypothesis for the proposed study asserts: When over-treatment is implemented for the patient in the oncology setting, then the partnership between the nurse and the doctor may be in peril. 1.3: Study Structure Chapters following Chapter I, the Continue Reading...
Katherine Kolcaba Comfort Theory Comfort is an obvious objective in providing a level of quality of care in a nursing environment. Yet, at the same time, most concepts of "comfort" are based off subjective or heuristic accounts and not holistically Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Impact of Nurse-Patient Ratios on Healthcare Quality: This essay could explore how the number of nurses available in healthcare settings affects the quality of care provided to patients. It can inc Continue Reading...
