SDLA 4: Activity 1 Palliative care continues to evolve in providing better end-of-life care and so does nursing care. Thus, nursing practice is enhanced to satisfy the demand of the palliative care. A nurse provides complex care and fulfils the needs of the patients. Nursing involves in caring work, which focus on patient experiencing agony in palliative and haematological cancer care. Nurses worked in a taxing environment, that can be highly stressful, and often they experience physical, psychological and spiritual exhaustion.
This video produced originally in 1981 follows three terminally ill patients during the end of their life, being cared for by family, at home. It is also the intimate portrayal of the family’s response to the fear, anger, and the overwhelming responsibility of caring for a loved one at home. I found this film powerful because I had a similar experience in my own life. My father cared for my mother at home for the last two months of her life. I remember the wide range of emotions in a manner that allowed me to process and understand the complexity of this kind of intimacy during death.
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The family is at the center of all ethical and life-preserving decisions. Grave diagnosis like cancer is concealed from the patient by the family with belief
Kaakinen et al. (2015) states that approaching family as a client is centered on each individual family members well-being that create the sum of a family. An example of this approach is well demonstrated by my family’s primary care provider (PCP). My mother, father, sister, and I all routinely see the same primary care provider. Near the end of 2014 my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and in early 2015 my father was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Being a caregiver is hard work, but Dr. Green and myself, set aside time to provide for those. After months of painful chemotherapy, her aunt decided that she no longer wanted to live with the side effects of chemotherapy. After the death of her aunt, three months later her uncle was diagnosed with
In this assignment, I am going to be focusing on a teenager who has a terminally ill parent and how they would cope within the situation and what key issues you need to focus on in order to make the transition/change a success. The age group I am focusing on would be 16 – 18year old's. This is going to be a very difficult time in the teenager’s life so it is important that the correct support and planning is put in place to help make this experience easier. There are many key issues that you need to focus on when it comes to a young adult dealing with a close bereavement such as a parent, however there are going to be two key issues that I am going to be focusing on and that will be planning and the overall effect it has on the young person. I think this is important because " every year around 0.3% of all families with children under the age of 18years encounter parental cancer, and 3.1% of minors and 8.4% of young adults have a parent that has been diagnosed with cancer" (ncbi.gov, 2012)
Care givers: caring for a family member or friend with a physical or mental illness can be stressful, exhausting, both mentally and physically, and creates a physical and psychological strain for the care giver over a period of time. The psychological well-being such as depression and stress, are frequent consequences of caregiving. The age, socioeconomic status, and the availability of informal support that caregivers have access to greatly affect their own health and well being. Caring for a family member with a mental illness can differ from caring for someone suffering from a physical illness. In addition to the medical care and long term treatment of a family member, an open and liberal view of mental illness is almost an essential in being able to care for someone who is ill.
Mesothelioma treatment and sex life: an imperative connection Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that affects mainly to those who have been in contact with asbestos, but is not until 20 or more years that the symptoms start to appear. Patients with cancer are usually cautious in regard to sex life: they avoid the topic from their doctors and the doctors do not make questions or suggestions for the same caution. Some may think that this is due to the fact that when a person is diagnosed with cancer this person’s mind does not have room to worry about this topic, but truth be told, it is more important than it seems. Most people diagnosed with cancer tend to forget about the emotional effect that their partners have in their lives; therefore,
This study found that caregivers experience uncertainty in similar ways to patients who have life altering
In all my experiences as a nurse, I’ve realized the importance of communication, providing holistic care to an individual and empowering them with the knowledge to manage their health. When an illness strikes a person, it affects not just his body, but also his mind and spirit. The art of communication is invaluable to patient interaction and establishing a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship, that facilitate coping mechanisms for patients, moreover it prepared myself as a nurse to meet their individual needs. Furthermore, there is at the moment an insurmountable demand for survivorship care as a result of the advancement in technology and medicine, which made living beyond life expectancy possible for increasingly more people. Living after cancer treatment is not free of complications as there are acute and chronic side effects of treatment that requires constant monitoring and attention, and this information spurred me to shift my focus from palliative to survivorship care.
Participants noted the change in touch from their family and friends prior to diagnosis of their cancer. Some participants found comfort in the changes and some did not. Many participant’s noted a struggle between craving normalcy and familiarity from loved ones and still wanting to feel love and support. One participant reported not letting his mother touch him when he was gravely ill. Another participant noted that her family, particularly her mother and daughter, began to distance themselves from her after her diagnosis.
As cancer continued to become more prevalent, health care providers and researchers were forced to further investigate the biology, development, and treatment of cancer. The interaction of cancer outside the realm of molecular and cellular biology became apparent in the mid 1900’s and has since found importance in the fields of psychology, neuropsychology, and psychosocial oncology (Holland, 2002). The field of psychosocial oncology finally became established in the 1970’s, when the stigma of cancer shifted, and patients felt comfortable sharing their experience (Holland, 2002). Social workers and nurses were the first health care professionals to attend to the psychological needs of
Patients must continuously adjust to the threat to their own identity: at first, when they find out the diagnosis, and later, to the treatment, to various physical symptoms and to the emotional distress. This adjustment is considered by the Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation, where the patient with cancer is considered to be actively seeking and processing the information about the disease, building his/her own cognitive and emotional representations with regard to the disease and finally selecting and applying those coping procedures that will help him/her face the threat of disease [14,15]. If the adjustment efforts that focus on the problem or on the emotion are inadequate or inappropriate, individuals will experience fear or worry, according to Leventhal’s Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation, which originally did not include worry and risk perception; these concepts were later included in the extended versions of the self-regulation framework
It is easy to bypass family interactions and focus solely on the patient, but nurses are missing a huge amount of information that is relevant to the continued care of the patient when they do not take into account the family structure, context and other important variables. The care of the person managing chronic illness rarely falls on just the individual afflicted and the nurse misses what is happening outside of the hospital that play a huge role in the patient’s care. Chronic illness is ongoing and the successful management of such an illness may have far reaching impacts on many other family members. To help ensure the best possibly continuation of care and support for the patient and the family, the nurse must find ways to interview, assess and involve the family factors in the patient’s