Hospice care provides medical services, emotional support, and spiritual resources for people who are in the last stages of a serious illness, such as cancer or heart failure. Hospice care also helps family members manage the practical details and emotional challenges of caring for a dying loved one. The goal is to keep you comfortable and improve your quality of life. Hospice services usually include: Basic medical care with a focus on pain and symptom control. Access to a member of your hospice team 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Nursing homes offer care to people who cannot be cared for at home or in the community. They provide skilled nursing care, rehabilitation services, meals, activities, help with daily living, and supervision. Many nursing homes also offer temporary or periodic care. This can be instead of hospital care, after hospital care, or to give family or friend caregivers some time off ("respite care"). Another type of long-term care takes place in home-like settings called Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded.
Palliative care is defined as “a medical specialty that focuses on relief of the pain, symptoms and stress of a life-threatening illness and improving quality of life. It is appropriate at any time in an illness and can be provided at the same time as curative treatment” (www.cancer.org/hospice). During this time patients are surrounded by their love ones, and are still getting treated 24/7. They are still viewed as people not as death or burdens. The average patient is in hospice 59 days.
All over the world there are doctors and nurses. Did you know that there are many types of nurses? I’m going to tell you about Licensed Practical Nurses. They are the people who help elderly people with their daily lives. They are the people who bring you into the exam room when you visit your doctor, or maybe they help the mother who is in labor.
“Hospice care is a form of palliative care that is given to a person when cancer therapies are no longer controlling the disease. It focuses on caring, not curing. When a person has a terminal diagnosis (usually defined as having a life expectancy of 6 months or less) and is approaching the end of life, he or she might be eligible to receive hospice care” ( Author Unknown, 2010). “The goal of hospice is to enable patients to continue an alert, pain-free life and to manage other symptoms so that their last days may be spent with dignity and quality, surrounded by their loved ones. Hospice affirms life and does not hasten or postpone death” (Author Unknown, 2012).
Health care services user needs for example, when you are feeling unwell you go to see your G.P who will examine you and maybe give you prescription for medicine (primary care) refer you onto a hospital for specialist treatment or tests (secondary care). Health services also provide children health clinics to monitor growth and development of babies and young children. Health care services are primary concerned with diagnosis and treatment of illness and disease. Social care services provide help and support those service user’s in the community who are unable to cope because they are under stress, homeless, have a mental illness or because of old age no longer able to care for themselves without assistance with daily living needs. Social services enable people to live in after their own homes providing home care services such as meals and day care.
An interdisciplinary medical team, typically consisting of a physician and a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, cares for the patient in their home. They come to the patient’s home with portable diagnostic equipment and medical supplies, diagnose the patient’s health problems, design a treatment plan, provide medical care, arrange for any other needed health services and coordinate the
When a resident is observed to have a condition change, the nurse performs an assessment and makes a decision whether or not to notify the physician and the resident’s family or guardian. The most common symptoms that resulted in the transport of residents to a hospital emergency room were respiratory distress, altered mental status, gastrointestinal symptoms, and falls (Ackermann, Kemle, Vogel & Griffin, 1998). The changes in mental status could
Eye surgeries, colonoscopies, and other less invasive surgeries can be done in a hour or two and the patient can go home after recovery instead of staying in the hospital. This frees up hospital beds for the more critical patients. Quality health care also means quality staff; from the clerk who admitts you for your hospital stay or doctor’s appointments to janitor that cleans your room. Each individual is important to the treatment of a patient. A patient coming into a clinic to see the doctor for the first time expects the person at the desk to understand that they are there for a reason, their needs are addresssed in a professional manner.
In section 3 of the Mental Health Act a person can be admitted to hospital for treatment for health reasons, which include for their safety or for the protection of other people. This is done under the understanding that it cannot be provided unless you are detained in hospital. In section 4 of the Mental Health Act is where a person is admitted to hospital for an assessment of their mental health for a limited period of time (usually 48 hours) and requires the recommendation of only one doctor. Where there is no emergency then section 3 is applied. In section 5 of the Mental Health Act is used by a doctor or nurse, who believe that a patient has a mental health need, they can prevent someone leaving hospital who is an inpatient receiving hospital treatment.