Nursing 4400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Palliative Care
19 Dec 2017
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Palliative care part i: nursing concepts within palliative care. Ability to delay death, technologies, more comorbidities , inevitably the body fails. Ward room can have little privacy, tend to assault our senses. Give flowers because then it doesn"t smell. 1 in 2 canadians get cancer in their lives, comes on more abruptly for deterioration. Die from not enough o2 to brain not enough glucose. Rich countries die from heart disease, smoke, resp. Poor countries die earlier from resp probs, hiv/aids, diarrhea. Current landscape: home, hospital deaths 56, nursing home 20% of deaths happen here, hospice/pcu 10, street/shelter no good number. Pain control 2. 5 million people die every year form pain. Less than 8% in need have access to hospice/palliative care. Client care: loss vs. regret: we can grieve loss providers) Access r/t size & population density a challenge e. g. access to services. When people receive palliative care services, they report fewer symptoms of their illness, a better.
