NURS 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Palliative Care, Chronic Kidney Disease, Congenital Disorder
5 Apr 2020
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Symptom management: increase the qol of individuals by treating physiological and psychological symptoms such as nausea or pain. Supportive care: services and resources provided to patients and their families to meet their palliative care needs, and uses a multidisciplinary approach. Comfort care: to provide care that alleviates suffering and uses symptom management. End of life care: given to patients who are not being medically cured and are usually receiving comfort care during the end of life. Hospice care: when a patient decides they do not want any aspects of medical curing as they have a terminal illness, which can last for long periods of time depending on the person. Hospice palliative care: aims to relieve suffering and improve the quality of living and dying entirely focused on terminally ill patients. Why do we need hospice/palliative care? there are more chronic diseases than sudden deaths chronic diseases are increasing are holistic.
