Dignity is defined as “the quality or state of being worthy, honoured or esteemed” [Merriam Webster, 2010] Dignity places value on an individual. Particularly, in the end stages of life promoting dignity aims to provides the client and their family with choices and considerations that are fundamental to end of life care. End of life care involves more than nurses routienly attending nursing care and relieving symptoms of pain, Nursing care of the dying client encompasses the physical, psychological, social, spiritual and existential aspects of the patient’s end of life
It also reduces any anxiety that the family members may be feeling if the patient has their wishes laid out for them to follow. Many elderly patients prefer to die at home and should be given the option to do so. Hospice care can assist these families with caring for their loved ones. During this time, when the treatments for a person’s disease may stop, the care the individual needs will continue. The primary concern is to ensure that the patient is as comfortable as possible and that any emotional and psychological needs are being addressed.
In addition to identifying and following advanced directives, practitioners are also faced with the legal and ethical implications in end of life treatment and care. Palliative care and comfort care measures are another area that significantly impacts the health care provider also today. As we have made so many advances in medical care, we must also look at the quality of life that remains when we have prolonged someone’s life. As terminal conditions continue to progress, health care providers continue to have an ethical and legal obligation to promote the best possible care for the patient. Sometimes this means not aggressively treating a terminal illness and allowing the patient to choose to die with dignity and as comfortable as possible.
Physician assisted suicide should not be legalized for the simple fact many would give up and take the easy way out. There is currently a pervasive assumption that if assisted suicide and/or voluntary euthanasia (AS/VE) were to legalized, then doctors would take responsibility for making the decision that these interventions were indicated, for prescribing the medication, and (in euthanasia) for administering it .Richard Huxable remarks “that homicide law encompasses various crimes, so prosecutors can choose charges to suit the circumstances. Yet one thing is clear: mercy killing is still killing, equally, murder is murder” Physician assisted suicide is nothing more than cold blooded
Claude Noel Yamgueu Prof. Landrus EN102 09/16/2013 Euthanasia Exploratory According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, euthanasia is the act or practice of intentionally ending the life of someone who is very sick or injured in order to prevent any more suffering. The 20th century was a time that saw the development of the modern hospital system, a development that contributed in the emergence of the euthanasia debate. Regardless of whether or not a person is in favor of euthanasia, many people do want a dignified death for themselves and their loved ones. However, the debate encompasses many interesting sides about whether or not humans have the right to die. The three main views of this issue include the pro-euthanasia, the con-euthanasia
Being compassionate is one of the most important traits a CENA must have. In the work place, a CENA may work in many saddening settings which may include working with the terminally ill and the elderly. In order for the aide to give the most effective care to the resident or patient, he or she must want to help. They would treat the patient as if it was their own family in this kind of predicament. They must have the passion to help others to get back to their everyday lives or for some, help them learn to live with their illness.
As a health care provider emotional support should be provided by listening, focusing, responding from your gut and leaving hope in tack. It is important to recognize that some depression is normal although, when it begins to interfere with activities of daily living the patient or their family member may need to be referred to a psychiatrist for psychotherapy and anti-depressants. If a patient reaches the acceptance stage the health care provider is able to help select treatment options that best suit the patient and family members as well help them gain access to needed health care providers and or appropriate care settings. Aide in any funeral arrangements they may want to make. Assist with saying good-byes
In the reading, “Brock grants that voluntary euthanasia, whether active or passive, is the deliberate killing of an innocent person” (164). In a sense, he states this may not always be wrong and also explains that when actively killing someone who wants to die really is not different from just allowing a patient to die, on a moral basis. He argues, on the premises of permitting euthanasia, that the potential good consequences outweigh the potential bad
Although many people feel that doctors must do everything possible to keep their patient alive. In this paper I am going to explain the different legal aspects of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. There are two sides to this controversy, and their basic ideas are of the following: terminally ill patients should
From a patients perspective : Since this hospice provides care for those that are in their last days of living from terminally ill diseases. Their objective is to enable their patients to “die with dignity”. While at the Hospice patients are going to through many emotions like stress and anxiety. The patients are told what is happening at every stage of their care. The hospice provides patients with the treatment and care they specifically need.