Palliative Care Approach to Wound Management: Principles, Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Therapies

To promote best practice and
demonstrate your
understanding of the
palliative care approach to
nursing students will create a
professional development

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Identification of the issue.............................................................................................................4
Target Audience and Rationale for Resource..............................................................................5
Importance of wound management.............................................................................................5
Principles of palliative care.........................................................................................................6
Palliative care approach with Pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic
intervention for wound management...........................................................................................7
Ethical consideration while managing pain in wound assessment..............................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Palliative care is the approach taken for improving the quality of life for the patients and
their family which are associated with a life threatening illness. This care helps in providing
relief of suffering by the early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain
and other problems. This identified issue in palliative care for this project is about wound
management in palliative care. In this project the discussion about the Palliative Care standards
and principles will be done.
MAIN BODY
Identification of the issue
The wound management in the palliative care is focusing over the suffering and also
improving the patient's quality of life when the patient is no longer in the condition to respond to
or tolerate they would and its curative treatment Welsh (2018). In palliative care the main aim of
the nurse is to provide the care to the patient which is in a life threatening illness Voumard and
et.al., (2018). Nurses are not able to provide the care properly if they cannot manage the wound
which can be due to the addressing problems of infection, pain, wound and the decrease in
quality of life. In the pathophysiology of the wound care management of palliative care the four
basic phrases of healing are discussed. Haemostasis, inflammatory, proliferative and remodelling
or maturation Ahluwalia and et.al., (2018).