Palliative Care Flashcards
What is palliative care?
- preserving quality of life
Who is able to be placed in palliative care?
anyone with a ‘life limiting illness’ with the expected death be a direct consequence of specific illness
What is Holistic Care involve?
- spiritual care
- emotional care
- physical care
- cultural care
- social care
What is a needs assessment tool?
- determine level of palliative care required at current stage of illness taking into consideration persons preferences
What is an advanced care plan?
instructions a person makes about future medical treatment in event they lose capacity to make decisions
What is ‘dying with dignity’?
person dying can control their own end of life care
What happens physiologically when dying?
- fatigue
- nausea
- pain
- insomnia
- breathing issues
What happens psychologically when dying?
- anxiety
- depression
- isolation
- feeling of loss of dignity
- fear of suffering or death
- disappointment and remorse
Define ‘Loss’
something to which one has an attachment to is now gone
Define ‘grief’
a range of reactions to the experience of loss (physical, emotional, behavioural, cognitive)
Define ‘bereavement’
a period after a loss in which grief is experienced
