End of Life Care

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Name of the Student
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Identification of the issues...............................................................................................................2
The goals..........................................................................................................................................3
Course of action...............................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
Reference.........................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The end of life care or EoLC means the health care that is provided to a person who has come in
the terminal stage of his life (Chan, Webster and Bowers 2016). The end of life care requires
different ranges of decisions including questions regarding palliative care, the patient’s right for
the self-determination, experiments regarding the medical condition of the patient, the ethics and
efficacy of the hazardous medical intervention (Shepperd et al. 2016). The given case study is
about a 55 year old aboriginal man. In the case study, it is shown that he has fallen down in the
bathroom and after that his wife and son took him to the hospital. I am his registered nurse. I will
identify the different issues that he is dealing with, establish the goals and prepare his care plan
so that he can get cured after some days.
Identification of the issues
The patient is already suffering from advanced lung cancer and also have multiple
metastases. In this incident, he has come to the hospital as he collapsed last night suddenly in the
bathroom. At present, I have identified the issues that he is dealing with are severe pain and
breathlessness and the man reason of this is the lung cancer. The metastases has spread
throughout the body. A person suffering from multiple metastases, suffers from body pain
(Curtis et al. 2016).. Tom regularly takes morphine, the doctor has prescribed him morphine as
he is suffering from severe pain of cancer but regular intake of morphine has side effects like
restlessness, watering eyes, nausea, sweating and severe pain in the muscles. Tom’s wife told her
son and also the nurses that Tom was very hot and was sweating a lot. Tom is an aboriginal
people and these people suffer from respiratory diseases due to lifestyles which are unhealthy
and inappropriate clinical services. Another important issue is regarding Tom’s daughter