NURS103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Palliative Care, Capacity Building, Professional Responsibility
16 Dec 2017
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Ex. home care nurse doing palliative care. Professional relationships: build network of relationships and partnerships, involve the individual and family, community, population in decisions, developing relationships with other professions and people, because trying to help people connect with resources. Capacity building: build a capacity in the community (connect with community agencies to build their own program, work with individuals, families, community, population to determine needs, strengths, available resources. Professional responsibility and accountability: making decisions using ethical standards, use evidence based practice. Epidemiological data: study of the distribution of health related states or events in specified populations (stamler, yiu & dosani, 2016, p. 202, key measurements: **document, measurement of risks and rates. Crude mortality rate total deaths from any cause in a given year in a population. Total deaths from a specific cause in a given year in a population. Total deaths of infants in a given year in a population.
