Reflective Account “End of Life” Last year 23 September 2012. I had a resident called “Mrs X” she was a 72year-old widowed living at ---‚ a Nursing Care Home. She’s not a religious type of person as she was Atheist. She has lived in the home for the past two years‚ and during that time I was assigned as her key worker. Mrs X had One Son and 3 grand daughters they are all regular visitors to the home. She has recently been diagnosed with renal failure‚ and her life expectancy is only a couple of
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Euthanasia and End of Life Issues Grand Canyon University: PSY 357 Professor Joseph Keefer Euthanasia and End of Life Issues After being diagnosed with debilitating diseases‚ such as one of the multiple forms of cancer or being in a Persistent Vegetative State‚ (PVS)‚ many consider euthanasia to end the suffering of that individual. Euthanasia is defined as "the act of painlessly ending the lives of individuals who are suffering from an incurable disease or severe disability" (Santrock
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End of life directives are also considered to be part of the care objectives for those who are reaching the end of their journey with the disease. Besides the Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order that most are familiar with‚ two directives commonly used in America are the Medical Orders for Sustaining Life Treatment‚ commonly referred to as MOLST‚ and Comfort One MOLST refers to medical “…orders based upon the person’s wishes in his/her current medical condition. Any section not completed [by the patient/decision
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End-of-Life Decision: Culmination of Our Life (Draft) “…Most people just want to be able to decide. If they know they have the means to end their life tomorrow‚ they’ll wait until tomorrow and see if things are better” states Judy Schwarz‚ patient support coordinator of Compassion & Choices‚ Inc. (Gross‚ 2009). Many factors in a person’s life determine their perceived notion of exactly when and how their life will end. These aspects of their life place an identifiable definition to their life
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Supporting individual’s at the end of life: Outcome 1: Understand the requirements of legislation and agreed ways of working to protect the rights of individual’s at the end of life. When caring for a patient at the end of life‚ it can be very challenging and it requires consideration towards not only the patient but to the patient’s family too. When reaching end of life care‚ legal requirements are put in place to ensure the wishes of the individual and how they are cared for after death
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nursing care‚ yet many nurses lack the comfort or skills to assess and intervene in this dimension. Spirituality contains features of religiosity‚ but the two concepts are not interchangeable (Puchalski‚ Lunsford‚ Harris‚ et al.‚ 2006). Spirituality refers to “one’s relationship with the transcendent questions”. For most people‚ contemplating one’s own death raises many issues‚ such as the meaning of existence‚ the purpose of suffering‚ and the existence of an afterlife. Goal of End of Life
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Ethics of Taking a Life Maria Rozo Ethics and Moral Reasoning Jarrod Brown 10 November 2014 None of us have the same ethics believes. How do we decide if taking a life is ethical? Can we all come to one conclusion? The answer is no. As an individual we are allowed to make any type of decision we wish to ourselves‚ but we are not allowed to make decisions for others. We also did not grow up with the same ethic and moral thinking. For some of us it may be okay to take someone’s life
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Bartling had the right‚ over the objection of his physicians and the hospital‚ to have life-support equipment disconnected despite the fact that withdrawal of such devices will surely hasten his death. When he entered Glendale Adventist Hospital in California in 1984‚ he was known to be suffering from emphysema and diffuse arteriosclerosis‚ coronary arteriosclerosis‚ abdominal aneurysm‚ and inoperable lung cancer. At the end‚ He had to use mechanical respiratory and chest tube to assist his breathing in
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The right to end one’s own life Euthanasia is described as the intentionally killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit. Euthanasia is frowned upon by society because it is deemed unethical to intentionally take one’s own life regardless of what life has to throw at them. In today’s society‚ individuals have now started realizing that deciding to take one’s own life is a personal choice they can make and should not be restricted by moral or social laws from
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plagiarism did take place in the writing of this paper‚ I understand the possible consequences of the act/s‚ which could include expulsion from Wesley Seminary. Issue: What is the role of the pastor in advising the dying and/or their families with end of life decisions? Introduction This paper considers the full scope of scripture concerning our issue by looking at texts from the Old Testament and then the New Testament. Finally‚ I will conclude with remarks concerning our direction as the 21st
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