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NURS 4521 - Introduction to Palliative Care

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Education Intervention Community Health Nursing (NURS 4521)

   

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NURS 4521 - In this assignment, we discuss Palliative care; Palliative care can be explained as specialized medical care services provided by the responsible authorities of the community to take care of those people who face serious illnesses in their life. Grieving; Grief can be termed as an expression of loss. And it also tells about The process of Griefaccording to Worden's Four Tasks of MourningTheory.

NURS 4521 - Introduction to Palliative Care

   

University of Houston

   

Education Intervention Community Health Nursing (NURS 4521)

   Added on 2020-03-07

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INTRODUCTION TO PALLIATIVE CARE1
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What is Palliative care:Palliative care can be explained as specialized medical care services provided by theresponsible authorities of the community to take care of those people who face serious illnessin their life (Levy et al. 2016). Palliative care considers the importance of background in thetreatment of the persons who are suffering from serious illness. The aim of these care servicesis to help the sufferer so that the sufferers and their families could get a better life to live.Government of respective countries are now focussing on the palliative care services in orderto provide and promote comprehensive community development approaches and services tothe communities. Palliative care services follow the social models of health and social carepractices (Gherman et al. 2017). This kind of services treats the symptoms of the illness thatcan cause distress among the sufferers. Palliative Care services follow multi-dimensional approaches in terms of application. Itinvolves the contribution of kind of professionals and networks in delivery of effectiveservices. Palliative services are provided by the health and social care services of respectivecountry (Hui & Bruera, 2016). Health and social care organizations should understand theimportance of palliative care while dealing with the problems of the society. Palliative careservices include the participation of GPs, specialized doctors, nurses, support workers,psychiatrist, social workers, legal practitioners, police officers and other professionals inorder to provide relief to the sufferers and their families from illness and related problems. In this essay, the effectiveness of palliative care services will be discussed and evaluatedregarding the treatment of grief and depression in the society (Ash & Yates, 2016). Thegrowing importance of palliative care services in the contemporary society attracts theattention of the service providers in these days. The features of these care services differaccording to requirements of different communities and nature of the illness. Many scholarsare working on developing different and versatile approaches related to the palliative careservices of the concerned community. What is Grieving:Grief can be termed as expression of loss. Loss of someone or something which are importantcan cause individuals to grief (Banerjee, 2017). Individuals can experience the bitterness ofgrief for different kind of situations in life. The reasons of grief can be the death of close2
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ones, the breaking of relationships, the failure in career or educational achievements etc. Thenature and severances of grief varies according to the severances of lose and the capacity ofthe individuals to cope. Grief is an integral part of our everyday life. People have toexperience grief in different stages of life (Brown, 2016). Continuous grieving can affect thequality of life. Individuals can access palliative care services in dealing with distress.What is Bereavement?Bereavement can be understood as a process of grieving. It is a state of loss (Stroebe et al.2017). The loss of someone or something individuals love or care for leads to the process ofbereavement. Bereavement is often accompanied with another loss like deterioration of healthor mental condition or break of a relationship or failure in education or profession etc. Onemust understand that grief is a natural way of coping with distress in life and understandingof bereavement process can help an individual to cope up with grief. To understand thesymptoms associated with bereavement, individuals need to explore the field of humanbehaviour (Norman et al. 2016). Worden's Four Tasks of Mourning:According to the results of different significant research, there is no specific duration of griefand bereavement process. This duration depends on the capacity of the individual and thenature of the circumstances; the process of bereavement can take time years, months, weeksor days (King & Woods, 2017). The Four Tasks of Mourning has been developed by WilliamWorden which enlightens us regarding the consequences of distress or bereavement. Healthand social care organizations and professionals should use this theory in the delivery ofpalliative care services to the community. Task 1: To accept the reality of the lossThe sense of unreality is often accompanied by the situation of loss. Individuals mayunderstand the reality but they are unable to accept the reality sometimes. Individuals oftencrave for the touch or voices of the dearest ones they lose (Watanabe & Suwa, 2017). Theirmemories often hunt in their sub-conscious and conscious mind. They put their effort torelate with the person they lose. They often hallucinate the face and figures of their dearestones who died. Partially they can understand that their efforts cannot bring their dear onesback, yet they make unrealistic efforts to link with the gone ones they love. These efforts of3
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