NURS 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dietitian, Facial Expression, Active Listening
9 Dec 2016
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Palliative care goals: provide comfort and supportive care during dying process. Improve quality of remaining life: help ensure a dignified death. Who is palliative care: physicians, nurses, social work, spiritual care, Role of nurses in palliative care: structure and process of care, physical, psychological, psychiatric aspects, social, spiritual, existential, cultural, ethical, legal, care of imminently dying patient. Palliative performance scale: gives a snapshot of pt"s functional status and rate of decline, suggests present and future needs. In sympathy, by sharing the emotion, the therapeutic effectiveness is lost: real listening occurs when we have the intention to understand someone, enjoy someone, learn something or want to give help to someone, key to listening is intention. Intention occurs when focusing w someone in order to move w purpose in our responses and interventions: active listening, highly developed skill, active process involving: Energy, concentration, attention to total message (verbal and nonverbal) Focusing on other person"s needs: active listening tools:
