Category: Palliative Care

Bill summary Seeks to amend the Public Health Service Act (Congress.Gov, 2019). To raise the number of permanent faculty in palliative care institutions. Beneficiaries: accredited osteopathic and allopathic training institutions. Aim: promote education and research in hospices and palliative care. Specifics of the Bill All palliative care and hospice education centers to: Promote inter-professional team-based…

Dear Senator Underwood, I am a registered nurse (APRN) in state/jurisdiction and work in. I want to ask you about the support bill H.R. 647: Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act. I know that you are cosponsor of this bill and familiar with its context and significance, but I want to provide some…

Key Information: Authors and Topic Alleviating pain in patients with oncology issues is one of the crucial tasks faced by nurses in the modern healthcare setting (Paice et al., 2016). In their study, Bakitas et al. (2015) compare early and delayed palliative care management techniques. Primary quantitative analysis was conducted to determine the benefits and…

End of life care is always associated with fundamental questions that can hardly be answered in many ways. Patients often feel depressed and unable to make decisions while healthcare professionals may also lack the necessary knowledge and health to ensure the high-quality end of life care. The insufficient knowledge of healthcare professionals is deeply rooted…

Palliative care is given to those who are nearing the last days of their lives when providing the best quality for remaining life is more significant than prolonging a miserable life (National Ethics Committee, 2007). Sometimes even aggressive high quality palliative care does not relieve them of symptoms like vomiting, dyspnoea and severe pain which…

Introduction The end-of-life phenomenon has always been a complicated issue for health care practitioners, families, and patients. This is because each of these parties has different interpretations in relation to the appropriateness of the available treatment alternatives. According to practitioners, changing the families and patients decisions from curative to palliative strategies depends on the ability…

The nature of medicine entails that those working in the field encounter grief and loss almost daily. Frequently, medical professionals need to perform a supportive function for those family members, relatives, or caregivers going through these feelings. Terminal patients are another category of people that may seek additional comfort and support from surrounding medical staff.…

Introduction This is a quality improvement initiative aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of implementing a palliative care assessment tool to enhance the knowledge of nurses working at a long term care facility, in identifying and referring patients for palliative care. In order to address patients who are in need of palliative care, it is vital…

Table of Contents Title Abstract Introduction Hypothesis and Purpose Literature review Conclusion Reference This paper critically analyzed a research study that was conducted to identify the various side effects of haloperidol on delirium patients receiving hospice care. The researchers largely followed the scientific method in conducting and presenting their study. Success was registered by the…

Table of Contents PRE-Survey POST-Survey Interpretation of Results Reflection Implications for Future Practice References PRE-Survey # Strongly Agree Agree Neither Agree nor Disagree Disagree Strongly Disagree 1 3 (30%) 3 (30%) 2 (20%) 2 (20%) 0 2 3 (30%) 2 (20%) 3 (30%) 1 (10%) 1 (10%) 3 4 (40%) 3 (30%) 1 (10%) 2…