Palliative Care Practice in New Zealand

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Palliative care practice
5/27/2019

SOCIOLOGY
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1. Palliative care in New Zealand aims to optimise an individual’s life quality until the time
they approach to their death, by addressing various s health needs. These needs include
physical, social, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and psychological wellbeing. To discuss
about the current framework that guides the practice of palliative care in the region the
“National Professional development framework for palliative care practice in New
Zealand” has been established back in the year 2008. The framework is founded, to
determine the skills, abilities or competencies required by nurses in order to provide
palliative care practice in health care settings (Oliver, Wilson & Malpas, 2017).
This framework provides adequate support to the health workforce of New Zealand
promotes and collaborates with the staff to ensure effective palliative care to people. In
context to the given word, i.e. Whare Tapa Wha defines the Maori health, through a holistic
model, applicable to any health issue, involving the aspects of physical or psychological
wellbeing (New Zealand Medical Association, 2018).
2. To explain or define the palliative care, it means providing care to the people with any
life-limiting illness, especially in older age. It has been found through palliative care in
New Zealand not only promotes the role of nurse, rather ensures their development.
Therefore, it forms the base of effective care for the patients. Under the established
framework in palliative care, holistic care to the patients has been considered as important
element (Östlund et al., 2019).
For providing holistic care, health care communities focus on population-based approach
to provide health care. Pain and symptom management acts as one practice trend in the
palliative care approach and helps patients to manage their health in context to end-of-life
care. Moreover, in palliative care approach the health professionals must focus upon the
patient needs, and ensure that they have access to palliative care for their chronic illness.
Thus, palliative care approach helps patients and families to relieve from the stress, and other
symptoms of the illness, and leads to positive health outcomes (Wong & Zhukovsky, 2017).
3. Under the palliative care approach or end-of-life care, nurse or professionals play a major
role in encouraging patients towards their life quality. Therefore, two major aspects i.e.