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Providing comfort and care for someone at the end of life can be physically and emotionally exhausting. If you are a primary caregiver, ask for help when you need it and accept help when it's offered.
Nurses are obliged to provide comprehensive and compassionate end-of-life care. This includes recognizing when death is near and conveying that information to families, surrogates, or health care agents.
End-of-life care focuses on the patient’s and family’s psychosocial and physical needs. Nursing care for end of life aims to provide support and comfort during the dying process, help ensure a dignified death, improve the quality of the patient’s life, and provide emotional support for the family.
End-of-life care generally refers to patient care before death, either while undergoing curative treatment or after deciding to focus on comfort rather than cure. With some serious illnesses, prognosis is uncertain and it is unclear if the care provided is end-of-life or life sustaining.
In this article, we’ll explore the essential components of end-of-life care, including hospice care and nursing care plans. What is End of Life Care? 1. Promoting Effective Coping Abilities. 2. Decreasing Tolerance to Activity. 3. Providing Emotional Support and Assisting in Grieving. 4. Managing Pain. What is End of Life Care?
Learn how nurses provide end-of-life care, including procedures, support strategies, and insights to enhance their compassionate approach.
Nursing care is crucial for creating a peaceful end-of-life experience. Family—a term that includes all significant others—is an important part of end-of-life care. The goal isn't to optimize care by using the most cutting-edge, advanced treatment because this frequently results in overtreatment.
There are many areas of concern at the end of life for both the dying patient and their family members. These areas are communication, cultural considerations, plan of care, ethics, pain and symptom management, and termination of care. The discussion of these areas of concern below summarizes the existing literature.
Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know is a comprehensive book about caring for patients and families at the end of life. All areas and ideas related to nursing care at the end of life are included.
End-of-life care is the term used to describe the support and medical care given during the time surrounding death. A loved one may need care for days, weeks, or even months before breathing ceases and the heart stops beating. Other times, death comes suddenly.