Palliative care for cancer patients in a hospice home
Chana, Nchamba George; Ngum, Miriam (2012)
Chana, Nchamba George
Ngum, Miriam
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2012
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201204164537
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201204164537
Tiivistelmä
The care of patients in their last weeks of life needs fundamental palliative care skills. The purpose of this study was to describe and stress the importance of palliative care for cancer patients in a hospice home. A systematic literature review was used to search previous studies on the topic and expert opinions on the care provided to patients during their last weeks of life. These included books, journals, current articles and web searches coherent with the study. An inductive qualitative analysis was then used to analyse the data.
During the search important issues such as; what the process of palliative care is all about, the need for effective communication, pain management, respecting individual spiritual beliefs, the role of the nurse in patients care and the importance of including the families in the care process were addressed carefully. An effective provision of palliative care to cancer patients in a hospice home requires the care giver to be able to provide care to the patients in every situation regardless of changes in the patient’s general condition, social policies, and limitation of resources or pressure coming from family members.
At the end of this study it was evident that there have been a lot of improvements in the domain of palliative hospice terminal cancer care. That notwithstanding there was some information which suggested that nurses believes/values, cultural differences, poor communication, fear of death, lack of time, poor pain management are some areas that needed to be improved on.
Although hospital and home deaths are still very common in our society, people are beginning to take the option of letting their loved ones die in the comfort of a hospice home. This stresses the importance and effectiveness of hospice homes.
During the search important issues such as; what the process of palliative care is all about, the need for effective communication, pain management, respecting individual spiritual beliefs, the role of the nurse in patients care and the importance of including the families in the care process were addressed carefully. An effective provision of palliative care to cancer patients in a hospice home requires the care giver to be able to provide care to the patients in every situation regardless of changes in the patient’s general condition, social policies, and limitation of resources or pressure coming from family members.
At the end of this study it was evident that there have been a lot of improvements in the domain of palliative hospice terminal cancer care. That notwithstanding there was some information which suggested that nurses believes/values, cultural differences, poor communication, fear of death, lack of time, poor pain management are some areas that needed to be improved on.
Although hospital and home deaths are still very common in our society, people are beginning to take the option of letting their loved ones die in the comfort of a hospice home. This stresses the importance and effectiveness of hospice homes.