The integration of palliative care in nursing practice In Aged Residential Care (ARC) facility
The integration of palliative care in nursing practice In Aged Residential Care (ARC) facility
Introduction: Nurses are essential to interdisciplinary palliative care and make an important contribution to meeting the needs of people with a life limiting illness. Nurses need to be responsive to these needs by integrating new models of care and practice knowledge and skills whilst negotiating their scope of practice with other health professionals. (100-150 words)
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to explore the philosophy of palliative care and the contribution nursing makes in caring for patients with palliative care needs.
Clinical context – Describe your practice setting and your role in providing palliative care. Outline the model of care and how palliative care is delivered in your practice setting. (500 words)
Palliative care Philosophy (3-400words)- Explore the philosophy of palliative care and how this is integrated into your practice setting including factors such as:
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Holistic approach to care including physical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual domains
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Focus on quality of life
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Patient and family as the unit of care
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Interdisciplinary practice
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Patient advocacy
Challenges, issues, barriers (2000 words. Main part of this essay. Identify the challenges and discuss how we could improve)
Identify and critically analyse the challenges in providing palliative care in your practice setting and discuss recommendations to improve patient outcomes. Consider:
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Model of Care…(800 words) challenges: complex needs for elderly people and diverse culture in NZ is the challenges. I suggest “integrated care model the bow tie model”, “parson and family-centred care model” and “New Zealand Maori care model” I discuss and explained integrated care model in ideal in aged residential care facility.
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Capacity and capability of nursing…(800 words) Challenges: lack of knowledge and skills, lack of communication, lack of leadership within multi-disciprinary term, lack of integrated care and service
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Advanced nursing roles….(400 words)… lack of education, training, lack of support
