This is important as an individual could have more pain down the left side of the body in which case laying them on their right to make it more comfortable for them to sleep or even just to sit. Carry out agreed measures to alleviate pain and discomfort. Some individuals pain is so severe that it can only be treated with medication others have pain relief gels or can be repositioned and made more comfortable. Carry out required monitoring activities relating to management of an individual pain discomfort. It is important to monitor someone's pain or discomfort as if you can see it getting worse and they are already medicate to the highest dosage then the GP may be able to change to medication to something more
Unit 4222-212 Provide support to manage pain and discomfort (hsc 2003) Outcome 1 Understand approaches to managing pain and discomfort. 1. Explain the importance of holistic approuch to managing pain and discomfort. Using a holistic approach is important because it gets to the root of the problem and the reason your having pain to begin with or Pain may be coming from another part of the body and when you try to find out where the pain originates from this can help you to decide the best way to treat it. When you know the cause and you can resolve the problem more accurately and Pain maybe emotional pain if they are concerned about something or it may also be due to anxiety or you worry about what may happen to them.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down The barrier of communication that results from cultural collusion is one of the most commonly-seen obstructions in providing timely and appropriate medical care for the patients. The cost is doubtless immense not only to the health of the patients themselves but also to the professional ethics of the hospital staff involved if delay or mistreatment occurs due to cultural difference. Therefore, it becomes extremely important to understand the difference between cultures so as to ensure quality medical treatments to all patients and ,in some extreme cases, prevent treatable illnesses from becoming life-threatening ones. The book" The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down " vividly illustrates the difficulties, brought about by cross-cultural misunderstanding, in providing medical treatment to a child from Laos, Lia, who is diagnosed with epilepsy, who, unfortunately, belongs to a religion that asserts epileptic attacks are perceived as evidence of the epileptic's ability to enter and journey momentarily into the spirit realm------hence the title "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down". In chapter 3 of the book, it reveals that Lia began having epileptic seizures when she was about 3 months old.
Difficulties in Post-operative care due to drowsiness, rushed interactions and absorbing status post information The preoperative area presented the most concerns by the patients by lack of emotional and informational support by the healthcare staff. To ensure quality of care information should be given to patients concerning long wait times. Relatives and or caregivers should be present in the post-operative phase to ensure information concerning diagnosis or information can be relayed later in time. Radiology relationship to this article stresses the need for education and divulgence of information to the patient in a timely
Pure emotions that cannot be seen or expressed in many ways such as empathy can all of a sudden be exposed with the correct use of rhetoric. The importance of such feelings being made apparent can be understood when examining the way doctors speak to families in moments of fear, confusion and sadness regarding a sick family member. With proper rhetoric doctors can transform a traumatic experience into a seemingly manageable situation. Doctors may not always be able to cure or fix the problem but they can ameliorate some of the fear for both the patient and family, simply by being able to verbalize their empathy and unyielding support. Without such skills doctors cannot succeed in making their patients comfortable and more importantly trust them with their
The primary concern is to ensure that the patient is as comfortable as possible and that any emotional and psychological needs are being addressed. “For many, hospice is a frightening word because it is associated with end of life. But really the confusion is due to not understanding what hospice is and how it can help people who are sick and their families. Often, the biggest myth surrounding hospice care is that the family has given up and hospice is a final surrender. But hospice is a way for people to prioritize the wishes of the patient and the family and is in no way "giving up."
Counseling Session Counseling session Counseling is somewhere where we can deal with our troubles when they feel they are taking over and getting out of hand. We may see a counselour for issues such as grief over a loved one, feeling out of our depth or swamped with issues at work, problems with our relationships, drug or alchol dependency or just feeling generally anxious or distressed. This list is endless as people have different are complex and the difficulties they are experiencing are also complex. Counseling provides a time and a place where we can take a long and honest look at whats distressing us, this is a place where we can explore our issues, raise our awareness, develop powers of self-reflection and feel encouraged to generate new understanding. With the help of a counselour we can find ways to accept and make peace with things we can’t change and make positive changes where we can.
This assignment will critically analyse the concept of supportive and palliative care critiquing the emerging definitions and philosophies. The perceive facilitators and barriers to supportive and palliative will be evaluated and clinical experiences of supportive and palliative care given to Mrs Majore, An 80years pancreatic cancer patient cared for in the community will be reflected on. Finally recommendations for the development of optimal supportive and palliative care will be looked into. Patients name has being disguised to maintain confidentiality. Palliative care had been defined by so many authors in different ways.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) (2002), palliative care is the total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment and includes control of pain, other symptoms, and psychological, social and spiritual problems. Palliative care is not limited to patients at the end but applies earlier in the course of illness, provided in conjunction with active treatment. Patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) are especially appropriate candidates for palliative care as defined by the WHO. Patients who have irreversible kidney failure face certain death unless they receive active treatment in the form of renal replacement therapy (RRT). Even with RRT, patients live with the reality of a shortened life span.
a patient who has cancer, a transplant patient’s family is often reatly affected by the patient’s ability to receive treatment. Accumulated hospital bills and the time spent waiting for the possibility of a transplant often weigh heavily on the family. Despite the high demand for transplants, there are not enough donations for the number of patients in need of tissue or an organ. Without needed transplants, many people will die. In my own community, several people have needed transplants in order to live.