End-of-life care

implement especially in end-of-life care. I am reflecting on the Charlie Gard case where a healthy baby boy was born and it was soon discovered he had a rare genetic mutation that affected his brain, his musculature and most other major organs. The health care team reviewed the potential outcomes for this baby and decided that the best option was to allow him to “die with dignity”, remove life support and not pursue any untested experimental treatment. This could have been the end…

Standards of care are the legal requirements for nursing practice that describe minimum acceptable nursing care (Potter, Perry, Stockert and Hall, 2013). Nurses took an oath to take care of the ill in any way they can to fulfill their responsibilities. I have high respect for caregivers because of their passion of doing their duties and not just a job. This tragic case was very unfortunate for that patient to experience such things, that I would have done the same thing that the author of this…

John DeLeonibus Marist College Ethics in Healthcare Delivery PA 601 10/23/2016 Ethical Issues in the Care of Terminal Patients Dealing with patients who suffer with devastating, life-threatening disease is, unfortunately, a common and especially scary job for health care professionals who must bring together the principles of professional behavior, informed consent and end-of-life decision-making with their own expectations for the health, well-being and survival of such patients. The…

tools nurses can use in facing ethical dilemmas in their everyday practice. There are many ethical issues surround the end-of-life care that nurses play an important role in helping to resolve these ethical dilemmas. Nurses need to understand the difficulty patient and families have to face in making end-of-life treatment and always respect the right of autonomy. The job of health care professionals is to provide detailed information about the benefits, limitations and drawback of different…

or no relatives, relies on social security, cannot stand or walk without walker, has no car and she depends on meals on wheels and suffers from hypertension, heart disease and she was diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease. There are two options for her case, first is dialysis, second is palliative care. This case is analyzed according to four different ethical principles which are beneficence (promote good), nonmaleficence (to not cause harm and pain), justice (what is due) and respect for…

contention and results in a frequent practice based issue. End of life decisions often present themselves within the hospital and it is one of the most prevalent settings for this issue. When these end of life decisions occurs, the patient should feel a sense of control and autonomy over their care. The research question that will be assessed in this paper is how do healthcare professionals describe dying well for patients when facing end of life in a hospital setting? The purpose for…

article I chose addressed Spiritual Care at the end of life. In this article it shows the difference it can make in addressing the person’s spiritual needs. In approaching the last stage of life, the patient and their family can go through different emotions, and when spiritual needs are not addressed, it can lead to feelings of isolation and distress (Wynne, 2013). In turn, this spiritual distress can lead to a poor recovery which then leads to a reduced quality of life (Wynne, 2013). Prigerson…

patient care should be patient-driven. Apparently, Mr. Jones’ goals do not align with the perceived goals of the medical facility and nursing staff. There is nothing to suggest that Palliative Care interventions are welcomed by Mr. Jones. Clearly, Mr. Jones’ goals did not constitute a Palliative Care consult. Mr. Jones’ goal is to receive aggressive care and treatment of his medical condition. He is “adamant about not wanting to talk about Hospice or Palliative Care. He only wants his care…

discusses various perspectives on fear of death among terminally ill people as well as their family members. The video focuses on the Zen Hospice Project, which provides hospice care to people dying of cancer, AIDS, and other serious illness. The primary goal of this project includes fostering more transformative approaches to end-of life issues. The project follows the principle that death is a time for important psychological, emotional, and spiritual transition. Mostly, evidence presented in…

one, writhing in pain and in end stages of their terminal illness. Krakauer (43-48), an author of the medical journal Health Administration Press, states that “few people would aspire to end their lives in intensive care units, on various forms of life support, in pain and isolated from loved ones”, but unfortunately for those who are in the end stages of a terminal illness, this is often what they face; there are very few desirable options of how to make the suffering end. In an attempt to…