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    Critical Incident Reflection: When I began my current position as a program manager at my organization in 2016‚ It was a bit of a culture shock being that I am now working predominantly with a population of At-Risk High School students with social-emotional challenges‚ a lot if not most of my students come from unstable households and dysfunctional families. Part of my role is student advisement‚ I wanted to avoid the “bull in a china shop” approach so I first observed and spent a lot of time taking

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    equated palliative care with death. After all‚ donʼt all palliative care patients die? And how else would a naive clerk define death? I equated it with defeat. Had I not just spent two years learning how to help people live? I saw palliative care as a failure: everything about it was negative: no‚ we are not going to resuscitate; no‚ we are not going to offer curative treatment; no‚ this patient will not live. My attitude towards palliative care was only reinforced by a certain incident during

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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

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    1. What is Palliative Care? (150 words) Palliative Care is a care provided when someone is living with‚ and dying from a fatal chronic condition where the primary goal is maintaining quality of life. It provides special supportive care for anyone who is suffering a life-threatening condition approaching the end of life. Palliative care is for any age‚ those with cancer or any other terminal diagnosis‚ people of any ethnic or cultural background‚ whether they may live in the countryside or the

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    Point of View : HOSPICE CARE IN THE PHILIPPINE SETTING When you meet a nurse‚ the last thing that comes to your mind regarding his or her specialization would be hospice nursing. It is no surprise why only a few have fully understood this new aspect of health care delivery. Hospice nursing is a specialized degree of nursing. The duty of hospice nurses covers a lot of responsibilities; from assessing the elderly’s condition‚ observing the health but still working altogether with the physician

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    assignment the writer aims to identify and explore in depth the role development of the specialist palliative care nurses in the community setting‚ and in particular how their role has evolved over the last 5 years. The writer aims for the first part of the assignment to provide the reader with a brief background into the development of palliative care and a history of how the traditional role of a palliative care nurse has expanded from a more generalist perspective to that of a position of specialism.

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    life. Health beliefs may be strongly tied to a person’s cultural background and spiritual or religious affiliation. Palliative care is the active holistic care of terminally ill patients which demands to maintain the quality of life addressing physical symptoms as well as emotional‚ spiritual and social needs. This very nature of the palliative care poses challenges to health care workers when addressing a culturally diverse population. Australia is the most multicultural country in the world where

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    Palliative Care and Hospice Care: The Principles and Goals They Set The principles of palliative care and hospice care have similar goals that may often come together in an effort of providing the best care for a patient. Palliative care is holistic care of an individual with a chronic life debilitating condition whereas hospice care is for those with a terminal condition who have been diagnosed with 6 months or less to live. Palliative care usually will begin prior to the hospice care and continues

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    Antonia Giannini Phil B12 T‚Th 2:35-4:00 Final Paper Palliative Care vs. Active Euthanasia You may ask‚ what is palliative care? Palliative care is the use of medications to reduce consciousness for the relief of intolerable and refractory symptoms in patients with limited life expectancy. (Hauser & Walsh 577) Active euthanasia is physician participation in the administration of drugs that will result in death. Active euthanasia is banned in all states. Only Oregon and Washington have

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    Palliative care for a dying patient needs to be well planned and managed to ensure that all aspects of care giving are taken care of. The plan provides a reference for nurses and other practitioners who are involved in giving care to the patient. This is so as to ensure that they all know what needs to be done and does not. The plan also includes the relatives or family of the patient who need to be involved in the process not only to give emotional support but also physical support to the patient

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