patient’s family or guardian may exercise the patient’s rights when the patient has been determining to be incompetent to exorcise those rights. In this paper I will elaborate on patients’ rights and the ANA code of ethics in relation to advocacy for hospice patients. Provision 7 of the ANA code of ethics mandates for nurses to participate in advancement of the profession to continue to educate themselves and to contribute to practice‚ administration‚ and knowledge development. Nurses must also help
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2013 First Interview Western Governors University Nursing Program Interview Form Candidate name: Jaclyn Dunn‚ RN Candidate ID number: Name and title of the interviewee: Kim Goff‚ RN MSN Describe the specialty area of the interviewee: Hospice Clinical Director The interviewee belongs to the following category: Educator Administrator Clinical Specialist Staff Nurse Nurse Researcher Date of interview: April 18‚ 2013 In person: Via phone: X | 1. How would you describe
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the largest group of healthcare personnel in the United States. There are approximately 3.6 million registered nurses (About ANA). Organizations exist at the national and state levels as well as numerous specialties‚ from emergency medicine to hospice. Each organization can have multiple functions but all serve to represent nurses and maintain high standards of clinical practice in the United States. The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a nationwide organization whose primary mission is
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recommended that he is in the hospice program because the physician stated to John and his wife Mary that there isn’t anything medical that they can do for them. Terminal lung cancer is “to spread to more than one area in the other lung‚ the fluid surrounding the lung or the heart‚ or distant parts of the body through the bloodstream. Once released in the blood‚ cancer can spread anywhere in the body‚ but it is more likely to spread to the brain‚
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starts having feelings of depression and discusses physician assisted suicide. This is a scary thought because no one wants to think that they may lose someone close to them. There are many alternatives to physician assisted suicide. The first is hospice care‚ end of life care that treats not only the patient‚ but the family‚ as well. Second is palliative
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References: Assisted Suicide: Hospice Care as a Merciful Alternative. (2008). Hospice Foundation of America. Retrieved March 20‚ 2008‚ from http://hospicefoundation.org. Assisted Suicide: Laws Around the World. (March 1‚ 2005). Assisted Suicide. Retrieved March 20‚ 2008‚ from http://www.assistedsuicide.org
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discussed in this paper focus on the aspect of how hospice nurses care for their patients. Watson’s theory looks at the relationship between the patient and the nurse with her interpersonal caring. Interpersonal caring is a spiritual interaction between patient and nurse. She theorizes the need for the patient and nurse to have a “caring moment.” In some fields of nursing it is hard to find time to have a caring moment‚ but it can be done. In hospice‚ nurses are fortunate enough to have many opportunities
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According to Asera Care‚ the hospice team provides medical‚ emotional‚ practical‚ and spiritual support to people with terminal illness‚ and their families. The hospice nurse provides many things for the patient and the family. As a hospice nurse‚ some tasks you would do are providing nursing assessments‚ plan and care for the patient’s comfort‚ and you would be with the family until the patients’ last day. Some of the transferable skills needed to go into the hospice field is being structured‚ independent
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prewriting; otherwise‚ the content of your piece will not be accurate. Topic: Alesha Monk working at a hospice center Attitude/Point: That it takes a special person to work at a facility with terminally ill people Audience: Families that have terminally ill family members Purpose: To Inform Topic Sentence: It takes a special person to work at a facility for terminal ill people‚ because the goal in a hospice center is to make the patient as comfortable as possible for the remaining days on earth. Brainstorm
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equal access to health and health care services. This type of community is located in rural and urban areas. A clinic may also be considered as an underserved. I remember when I volunteered to be helping hand at Aventura Hospital’s hospice center with VITAS Innovative Hospice Care. Before starting‚ I had to attend a workshop and training session. I became a little skeptical and wondered if I would be able to handle people that know that they are at the end of their lives. This was before I wanted to
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