palliative care
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Ensure your referencing is correct – intext and at the end of the essay a reference list is attached - i think your uni guidelines said “Harvard system”
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Introduction
The World Health Organization (2003)[1] defines palliative care as:
“An approach that improves the quality of life of individuals and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual”.
WHO (2003) further states that palliative care:
• provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms;
• affirms life and regards dying as a normal process;
• intends neither to hasten nor postpone death;
• integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care;
• offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death;
• offers a support system to help the family cope during the patient’s illness and in their own bereavement;
• uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including
Submit on time
Use references that are recent
No errors or spelling mistakes
Meet university requirements – title page, format, etc
Meet wordcount
To set up your essay, you may use headings such as “introduction”, “Communication strategies” “Conclusion” etc. If you want. Or you can set it up so that each paragraphs are structured and there is good flow.
You may use direct quotes – but you need to reference these correctly including with page numbers, which i have done...
Ensure your referencing is correct – intext and at the end of the essay a reference list is attached - i think your uni guidelines said “Harvard system”
Other nice ways to get extra marks = include a diagram or table that provides good summary of what you discussed – in this case, maybe something for your communication strategy or approach? If you can think of something nice, it would be good.
I’m happy to go over your final draft and edit if needed (charges may apply if it takes more than 10mins)
Introduction
The World Health Organization (2003)[1] defines palliative care as:
“An approach that improves the quality of life of individuals and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual”.
WHO (2003) further states that palliative care:
• provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms;
• affirms life and regards dying as a normal process;
• intends neither to hasten nor postpone death;
• integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care;
• offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death;
• offers a support system to help the family cope during the patient’s illness and in their own bereavement;
• uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including
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