Palliative Care

Palliative care is the attention, care and treatment, nurses and drug treatments given to patients in advanced and terminal illness in order to improve their quality of life and ensure that the patient is without pain. Palliative care doesn't anticipate or delay death but it is a real support system and integrated support for the patient and family.

 

The above paragraph I have just described is the theory, but in this blog I want off a bit of the protocol, theory and nursing procedures. I believe that if a subject has yet to be theoretical is more human than this.

 

As we have seen in the video, which for us are palliative care for the person is the last stage in this life. Therefore, if in all areas we must listen and treat them as humanely as possible, in this situation I think we should be even more so and we skip some protocol. In these final moments of the life of the person I think nothing better than to appeal to common sense and all naturally arises. With this, I mean to create a climate of trust, exchange of views, listen to the person and make him as comfortable as possible the last stage in this life. For this, we take care of all the details, both the patient and the family remaining in this life. At this stage nurses play a very important role because, as the video says, "the patient invites us to be your partner in this last stage of his life".

 

 

As reflected in the bibliography's article, I believe that whatever procedures are maintained and quality are good for the patient, but I think that, even if it means cutting corners and perform nursing procedures, what he really matter to the person is the humane treatment by the nurse at this stage of his life.

 

 

 

Bibliography:

• Scientific Electronic Library Online - SciELO. [Website *]. [Revised 14/05/2013, updated 09/05/2013]. Available at: http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?pid=S1132-12962011000100015&script=sci_arttext