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Palliative Care | Mindfulness Assignment

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Algonquin College

   

The Healthcare Sector (NSG3111)

   

Added on  2020-02-24

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The following document highlights Palliative Care, and we'll go over some issues based on subjects like mindfulness, the right to choose is a vital precondition that permits everyone to act freely, and the advanced care planning process.

Palliative Care | Mindfulness Assignment

   

Algonquin College

   

The Healthcare Sector (NSG3111)

   Added on 2020-02-24

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Running head: PALLIATIVE CARE AND END OF LIFE PALLIATIVE CARE CASE STUDYName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note
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PALLIATIVE CARE AND END OF LIFE1Table of ContentsAnswer 1..............................................................................................................................2Answer 2..............................................................................................................................4Answer 3..............................................................................................................................6References............................................................................................................................9
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PALLIATIVE CARE AND END OF LIFE2Answer 1Mindfulness is known as the process that helps a person to maintain consciousness, unitehis thoughts, physical sensations, feelings to generate a positive vibe that affects the surroundingenvironment positively. This is a way to accept and pay attention to the thoughts and feelingswithout being judgmental. Mindfulness allows people to neglect the rights and wrongs about anysituation and let them sense their real feeling about that moment rather than past or future(Williams & Kabat-Zinn, 2013). Mindfulness is a useful tool to help people suffering fromchronic and non-curable disorders. Due to their illness and fear to loose social connections,patients develop stress and hypertension that deteriorates their health condition and pace theirhealth degradation. Mindfulness in this situation, help them to calm their stress and sense theirreal feelings (Goodman & Schorling, 2012). Hence, in healthcare mindfulness is important forhealthcare professionals as well as for stressed patients. In the case study of Ling Ling (65), she is suffering from colon cancer stage four. She isbeen admitted to hospital, however due to her stressful family conditions, she herself diced to bedischarged from the hospital. She has three sons and two of them are suffering from severehealth issues. Her elder and second son are suffering from chronic renal failure and both are ondialysis. Ling Ling’s husband is works as an odd job worker and does not involve himself in anyhousehold decisions (Ndubisi, 2012). In this case, she is only one to win breads for her familyand take important decisions for them. Ling Ling used to work in the Oncology department ofthe hospital she has been admitted after the onset of the disease. She was referred for thepalliative care, which she stared to avail after her pains becomes worst (Burton et al., 2017).
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PALLIATIVE CARE AND END OF LIFE3Due to her depression and stressful health conditions, she should be aware of the conceptof mindfulness to reduce the stress level and the pain she is suffering from. As she was the onlyone to take decisions about her family, she become depressed after hearing about her elder andsecond son’s health complications. She wanted to be with her family in this adverse conditionand wanted to celebrate the last Chinese New Year by cooking food for her family. Thesesituations are due to stress, hypertension and due to her high emotional behavior, she was unableto understand her health complications. Hence, a hospice team was appointed for her to providecare at her home. According to the concept, mindfulness has the ability to change her thoughts and calmher emotional outflow as these two things affected her health adversely. Her vulnerability thatmade her discharge herself from the hospital could have been controlled with the concept ofmindfulness. She was suffering from colon cancer; however, she wanted to cook for her familythat describes her priorities in life. She wanted to serve for her family until death and evenwanted to die in her own home with her family members all around. Mindfulness practices couldhave helped her to control these emotions. She flowed with all the feelings and emotions of herlife and after the death of her elder-son she broke completely. However, the healthcare workersused their mindful behavior and let Ling Ling perform all the events she wanted to complete inher short lifetime without judging her actions. As Ling Ling was standing at the end of her life, mindfulness was the only way to attainpeaceful and calm death. However, she was bound with all the responsibilities of her home andshe was the only one to take care of her two severely ill son, hence she did not wanted to bedistracted from her family. Hence, she self-discharged herself. Furthermore, if Ling Ling was to
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