Ethical Issues With Palliative Care

Palliative care is also known as comfort care is focused on delivering comfort care to a patient when there is no more hope of recovering. Palliative care ensures patient diagnosed with incurable illnesses received quality care. Patients received good quality care from palliative care because it treats the symptoms and side effect of the disease. Palliative care aim is to improve patients, and family symptoms such as satisfaction with care, patients also received assistance with decision making, overall patient wellbeing and effective communication with the physician involved in their care. Palliative care can also be delivered in the comfort of patient homes. Some chronic illnesses that patient can be diagnosed with and would benefit from palliative are metastatic cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder and a lot more (Meffert, Gaertner, Seibel, Jors, Bardenheuer, Buchheidt, & Becker, 2015). This paper would examine the ethical issue of palliative care, patient impact, and

This confusion sometimes led patients to refuse palliative care for the fear that their life would be ending soon. However, the treatment goal of palliative care is improving the quality of life of a patient with the incurable illness. For instance, if a patient is diagnosed with incurable cancer. Healthcare professionals are always concentrated on the treating and curing the disease. The patient psychosocial and spiritual distress are ignored. These place more stress on the patient and family. The goals of Palliative care is to address patient psychological and mental problems including pain, spiritual anxiety, depression, fear, and a lot more. Palliative care focused on improving patient quality of life while the patient is still receiving medical treatment. (Meffert et al.,