Nursing Palliative Care Assignment
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NURSING PALLIATIVE CARE CASE STUDY
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1. According to WHO (World Health Organization), palliative care is defined as theapproach to improve the condition of patients and their family who are facing problems relatedto life threatening disease by providing treatment related to pain and other physical orpsychological problems (WHO Definition of Palliative Care,2017). Similarly, in case of Moira,she was also given a palliative approach by nurse practitioners. Early she was facingemergencies once or twice in a year but due to this approach she was feeling better than before.Hence, Moira would benefit from Palliative care as patients are able to overcome depression andfeelings of anxiety that helps in improving the quality of life. Nurses provide Moira withmedicines for breathing problem and hospital bed that solved the problem related to herbreathing and lower body pain. 2.a)Three important domains are physical, social and emotional domains. Special needs fromeach of these domains are:Physical domain: The physical needs of patients suffering from last stage COPD is relieffrom pain caused due to swollen lungs. Emotional domain: Due to lungs-related problems the patients of these diseases usuallysit around one place and are not able to participate in other work. Thus, they startedfeeling lonely and suffer from feeling of depression (Scheewe and et.al., 2013).Social domain: Social needs of patients suffering from COPD is effectivecommunication and their spiritual fulfilment.b) Care strategies related to these domains are: Physical Domain: Proper pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical treatment helped themto come up with chest pain. Various Bronchodilators and Glucocorticosteroids are used toget relief from lungs related problems.Emotional Domain: Emotional distress like anxiety, depression, feeling of loneliness canbe eradicated by approach of proper palliative care (Nishino and et.al., 2015). In this1
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