Palliative and Hospice Care - Assignment
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Role and Responsibilities of nurse working in hospiceand palliative care1
ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................5CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................72
INTRODUCTIONPalliative care is specialized the medical care of patient and family members those whowillingly living with the dangerous illness. This type of care must be focused on the providingthe best services by nurse and other specialist so that patient feel relief from the stress andsymptoms of illness. The primary goals is to improve the stress level, life of patient and itsfamily members. The palliative care provides by the trained doctors, specialists and nurse thosewho work together with different patients and support within extra layer of care. It is based onthe requirement of patient, not the prognosis. Palliative care is an appropriate at any stage andage in the serious illness. This documentation will describe the roles and responsibilities of nurseworking in hospice and palliative care. It will discuss that how palliative nurse provide thesupport of patient those who will face changes. MAIN BODYOverview:Palliative care plays important role in the long-term benefits and advantage of healthcare. For every patient who experience the symptoms of serious diseases such as pain, aging etc.In this way, it provides the palliative care which help for relief the pain of patient and alsoimprove the living quality (Barnett, Martin & Garza, 2019). The palliative care is helping forreduce the level of symptoms that causes discomfort to the patient. There are some commonsymptoms generated regarding the illness such as Parkinson’s, Cancer and diabetes etc. it canlead the patient to seek health care. Apart from that it requires the support of nurses which makestransition process. It become easier for every patient and their family members, who will faceproblem related health. palliative care generally concerns on relief the symptoms and curingdangerous disease. Roles and responsibilities to the Nurses in terms of Palliative/hospice care. Nurses plays important role in terms of palliative and hospice care. It can be identifiedthe conventional responsibilities for recording and observing symptoms. They can provideemotional help to ill patient and their family members. Nurses are considered the supporterswhich guide patients by using effective therapy and process of communication. Wheneverpatient can verbalize their own feelings (Beckstr and& et.al., 2019). Nurse always try to guidethem of giving wisdom which would alleviate their own sufferings. The patients have such hopethat require uplifting the actual aspects of life where many nurses sacrifice themselves to impart3
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