Principles of Palliative Care, Chronic and Complex Care

Introduction Ageing and dying is a normal process and body goes through several changes in whole life. Palliative care is a kind of health care. It is offered to those whose illness cannot be cured. It helps people to live as well as possible while they manage their illness. This assignment discusses the principles of chronic, complex and palliative care. It will also looks at the assessment and management strategies in chronic, complex and palliative care. Furthermore, this will look at case study of 70 year old man diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the right lung. The topics to be covered in this case study are nursing history of the client, nursing assessment, assessment tools and list of care priorities on key issues that associated with the nursing care of the client.

Principles of Palliative Care, Chronic and Complex Care

The Quality of life is most important principles of palliative care. According to The standards of Providing Quality Care for all Australians (2006) palliative care offers to all who have a chronic and life limiting disease, with slight or not vision of cure and for whom the main treatment option is to increase the quality of life. Alber et al ( 2010, p.18) states that the symptom and pain management, spiritual care, psychological care and social support can be used to advance the quality of life of patients for whom there are no any other option of treatment.. If the client has a clear understanding of his diseases trajectory he will be able to make clearer choices. Parker & Arandra (2009, p.157) believes that most people with terminal illness will want to keep on living as long a quality of life is reasonable. Alber et al (2010, p. 19) also believes that to improve the quality of life in cancer patients, palliative care is one of the important treatment for them. Therefore, when measuring quality of life, diseases, and treatment related symptom physical functioning and psychological emotional wellbeing and social interaction

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