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Palliative and terminal care (Nursing interventions (Maintain dignity and…
Palliative and terminal care
Palliative care
Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to specialized medical and nursing care for people with life limiting illnesses. It focuses on providing relief from the symptoms, pain, physical stress, and mental stress at any stage of illness.
Palliative care principles
Affirms life and regards dying as a normal process
Neither hastens nor postpones death.
Provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms.
Integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of care
Offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death.
Nursing interventions
Maintain dignity and privacy
Establish trust
Manage pain
Establish support
Manage dyspnea
Assist with activities of daily living
Respite care and readiness to learn
Malignant diseases
Include the leukaemia's ,occur in the elderly in the same way as in younger people, but the progression of the disease may differ. Treatment depends on the individual patient, their disease profile and level of functioning.
Terminal care
Refers to the treatment provided to a critically ill person in a situation where curative treatment has been discontinued.Dying patients are not left to cope with their condition even though the progress of their disease can no longer be influenced.
Pain control
Support patients with chronic pain caused by non-life-threatening diseases such as arthritis as well as terminal ill persons.
The side effects and risks of analgesics, such as constipation, dry and itchy skin and dry mouth can be managed through appropriate nursing observations and interventions.
It maybe appropriate in certain instances to have medication prescribed to relieve the side effects, but this is not normally accepted by pain, dehydration, infection or the analgesics and other medication being used for symptom control