Palliative Care Approach: Nursing Role in Grief and Bereavement Care

This report provides an overview of the palliative care approach, focusing on grief and bereavement. It begins with an introduction to palliative care, defining its role in patient care, especially for those with serious illnesses. The report then examines the National Palliative Care Standards, highlighting their importance in providing compassionate, patient-centered care. It delves into palliative nursing care in grief and bereavement, emphasizing the common experiences of loss and grief encountered by nurses. The nursing role in palliative care is explored, detailing how nurses provide support to patients and their families, addressing practical needs, and offering bereavement consultation. Nursing interventions for grief and bereavement are also discussed, including assessing grief, providing comfort, and assisting patients and families in coping with loss. The conclusion summarizes the importance of palliative care and the crucial role of nurses in providing holistic support to patients and their families during difficult times, emphasizing the mental and emotional support provided by nurses.

PALLIATIVE CARE
APPROACH

Table of content
 Introduction
 National Palliative Care Standards in grief and bereavement
 Palliative nursing care in grief and bereavement conditions
 Nursing role in palliative care for grief
 Nursing intervention to grief and in palliative care
 Conclusion
 Reference

Introduction
 Palliative care is detailed medical patient care that is for the
people who are living with a serious illness or ailment for
instance, cancer or any cardiovascular diseases such as heart
failure.
 Palliative care patients medical care efficiently receives patient
care for their symptoms, and other palliative care. In addition,
they provide treatment which is intended to cure the disease of
the patient with serious illness for impairment.

National Palliative Care Standards in grief and
bereavement
 The National Palliative Care Standards chiefly entails the vision for compassionate and appropriate
palliative care under the supervision of the specialist. The standards majorly considers and recognises the
importance of palliative care that is actually patient centred and very age-specific in accordance with grief
and bereavement support. The major three standards of the National Palliative Care Standards and they
include the under mentioned:
 Standard 1
 Standard 2
 Standard 3

Palliative nursing care in grief and bereavement
conditions
 Loss, suffering, grief and bereavement are the common domains
that are encountered by the nurses who are working in the
healthcare settings in palliative care.
 Loss is considered as the condition in which one individual feels
deprived of something that was unexpected and sometimes
expected. Grief is detailed as the deep psychic distress which may
arise from the loss of loved ones.

Nursing role in palliative care for grief
 Nurse is the major part of the healthcare settings which efficiently
provide a patient care that requires efficient professional knowledge a
d skills to mange their role and play their responsibilities in providing
aid and support to the family and the members of the family.
 This also includes addressing the practical needs of the patient and the
consultation that is required to tackle the bereavement in the patient's
family members.

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 Nursing palliative care involves and offers a support system to the family and the
members of the death person.
 The nursing team can efficiently help their patients to actively take the
responsibilities as possible until the demise of the patients. Palliative care is
explicitly a nursing care that is considered as in the domain of human right to
health of each individual.
 This can be more efficient in their role playing by satisfying the needs of the
patient and their family by recruiting themselves with efficient and major role and
responsibilities within the health acre settings.

Nursing interventions to grief and bereavement in
palliative care
 Nurses are the major aspect and domain that is looked after the loss of
the loved ones as they are efficient in efficiently working with the team
that is required within the health care settings.
 The nurses should assess and determine each and every aspect of the
grief that is associated with the loss and demise of the patient.
Grieving to fully understand the needs of the family members and
relatives that is the most effective role of the assistance that they can
provide to the members of the family and the other relatives.

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 Nurses mainly draws attention to providing comfort and care to the family and the associated relatives after the
death of the of person. Nurses majorly reports the scene to the authorities and bring forth honest conversations
with the patients and their loved ones who helped them in assessing the process of their emotions. They efficiently
assists the patient and the loved ones in coping the situations with their grief and the anticipatory grief. By
educating them about what the expected to include in the stages of the sorrows and griefs. In addition, some of the
normal feelings as well as other major resources that can be helpful in the intervention process of the
intervention.

Conclusion
 From the above discussion, it can be conferred that the palliative care is referred to as the total care that is required by the patient
and the family to efficiently practice them in their profession. Palliative care can be provide to any one who requires patient care
and is advisable to be treated well with the of nurses. Nurses are efficient healthcare professionals who are efficient in their role
of providing patient care to their patients and the associated members of the family after they are required to. Grief and
bereavement with the patient is associated and also affects the health and physic nature of the other family members. Nurses
plays vital roles in providing palliative care to the patient and the family members post the death of the patient. Nurses majorly
plays an important role in providing mental and emotional support to the relatives of the dead person. They also plays a vital role
is assisting their roles in the process of reporting the situation to the authorities chiefly.

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