Holistic Palliative Healthcare

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Holistic Palliative Healthcare
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How to provide the best possible holistic end of life care to a person while managing your
own beliefs and values
Palliative care is specified medical care for individuals suffering from chronic illnesses.
This kind of care is fixed on giving respite from the symptoms and strain of the chronic disease.
The aim is to enhance the quality of life mutually for the patient and their relations. Palliative
care is given by a specifically-trained group of medics, nurses and other experts who operate in
conjunction with the patient’s other healthcare providers to avail additional support. It is suitable
at any time of life and any phase in chronic disease, and it may be given together with other
treatment for the conditions. Therefore, it is a method that enhances the quality of existence of
patients and their relations tackling chronic diseases, in the course of the intervention and respite
from suffering through early detection and flawless evaluation and pain treatment and other
issues like physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems (Alliance, W. P. C., & World Health
Organization, 2014). Palliative care groups provide care for individuals suffering strain and
symptoms due to chronic diseases like kidney disease, cancer, Alzheimer ’s, congestive heart
failure (CHF), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD), Parkinson’s, and others. This kind of treatment takes care of agony, sadness,
exhaustion, nausea, not eating, insomnia, anxiety and other signs of strain.The group will aid the
patient with the power to go on with a healthy life. Thus, palliative care will assist in enhancing
the patient’s quality of life (Faull, & Blankley, 2015).
This essay will look at palliative health care in depth and how it can be made holistic. It
will study what it entails to provide all rounded care to patients with life-ending chronic illnesses
and why it is vital for it to be comprehensive. It will then look at how as a nurse you can manage

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to balance your personal beliefs while providing palliative care for patients with different views
from you while ensuring they get the best care from you.
Palliative care is gaining prominence around the world. It is because people are living
longer and also developing more chronic diseases as they age thus they require this type of care
more and more. They receive end of life care so that they can be comfortable in the last days of
their lives. Palliative care should be holistic caring for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs
of a patient (Faull, & Blankley, 2015). The patients in palliative care often, in addition to their
physical symptoms, experience emotional symptoms like being angry, anxious, depressed or
lonely. Hence, healthcare providers should be observant and notice these emotions in their
patients and structure the care they provide to deal with these issues. Also, it is essential to know
your patient's religious beliefs and rituals when taking care of them. One can find out about this
by talking to the patients or asking their family and friends. When you know this, you should do
your best to enhance your capability to react and respond to each and everyone’s individual
needs. By doing this, it ensures that the patients get excellent and respectful care thus improving
the quality of their lives (Wiener, et.al, 2013).
Holistic palliative healthcare can be provided in various ways. Some of these ways
include; first, the team should ensure they are in communication with the patient. By doing this,
they will know what the patient requires, how they feel and their treatment options and choices.
Once this is known, the team can then restructure the care they provide to match with your
needs. Thus this ensures that your quality of life is improved as you will get the best care
possible and be as happy as one can be (Bickel, et.al, 2016). Next is that the team should strive to
form a relationship with you, them and your family and friends who will are around you while
you are getting palliative care. By doing this, it ensures that the patient has a stable support