Hospice Care Case Study

Maryland mostly Baltimore are surrounded by historic buildings providing visitors a little of history. The city of Baltimore has much to show besides history. However, Baltimore is no longer a good place for children duo the increase number of violence and drug related crimes. On the contrary, they are not saying that the state of Florida does not have those problems, but citizens can live in peace because Florida has a calmer surrounding. It is the place for retired people and vacations.

Recommendation-hospice to evaluate. Palliative care will continue to

The hospital is located in West Miramar, West of I-75, so residents that live in East Miramar will have a long commute to get there. Memorial Hospital Miramar has the opportunity to expand to accommodate the growing population in Miramar. It currently has a global health policy, where it provides personalized coordination of specialized and emergency medical services for adult and pediatric international patients (Memorial Hospital Miramar, n.d.). It has the opportunity to grow in its global health policy, especially with the many awards it received, and coordinate care to more international patients.

What is Hospice? What do we as people think of when we mention the word, Hospice? “Bereavement” in other words that is not always a true statement. I now been with Hospice going on three years; June 17 2016. I have taken care of most of the patients I have had since day one as yes’ there are long term patients not short term.

When a patient is at the end of life it is very important to value the patients self dignity and their decisions at the mere end of their lives. The end of life care is to relieve the weight of the patient 's shoulders physically and mentally. I approve of end of life caring. Basic end of life care is summarized by improving the care of quality of life and dignity of the ill person. The important themes to good ethics of end of life care is a combination of human rights,respect,dignified care,and privacy.

Social workers have several responsibilities. They have to provide service, justice, and dignity to a client. They have to possess integrity, competence, and patience. Social workers need to possess knowledge of human rights, and how to perform scientific inquiry. Social workers occasionally have cases in which problems ensue and a solution is not found within a certain time frame.

In studying Registered Nursing one will find that they have to be compassionate and want to care for others. Registered Nurses assist physicians with suffering patients of any medical condition. They help to decide the patient’s medicine, treatment, recovery, and educate the them and their families on post-medical treatment. They need to have bedside manner, and be able to prepare patients for surgery. Registered Nursing careers range anywhere from critical care, oncology, mental health, to an everyday school nurse.

Over 40 museums are located in Baltimore itself, and the National Aquarium is located in Baltimore. Baltimore has mild weather year-round, cool summers and slightly cold winters. Overall, the state of Maryland is pleasant, and a great place to live. Despite the expensive overall fee at Johns Hopkins University, and the requirements on standardized test.

Undoubtedly Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) have preserve their number one spot in Chicago. Northwestern Memorial hospital have implemented an essential commitment to remain at the fore front of healthcare. In order for NHM to continue to be the leader the organization applied precaution such as strategic planning. Furthermore, the organization understands its product life cycle, its strengths, weakness, opportunity, and threats (SWOT).

Nurses lack of education, training, and lack of comfort in providing care was also seen as another barrier to good end of life care. Lack of knowing the patience preference or wishes regarding their care and treatment also created another obstacle for end life care. To make changes to these factors one of which that was made was the effective opening of communication, both with their team and with the patience family. Related to this is the use of a family care model and family involvement in clinical decision making. Nurses ability to act on previous experiences and their ability to support one another was also recognized as a positive factor to providing quality end of life care.

Hospice care covers a wide range of services that is focused on the person dying and their family, contrary to that of hospital care which is primarily concerned with treating the disease. Patients are able to receive hospice care in

SDLA 4: Activity 1 Palliative care continues to evolve in providing better end-of-life care and so does nursing care. Thus, nursing practice is enhanced to satisfy the demand of the palliative care. A nurse provides complex care and fulfils the needs of the patients. Nursing involves in caring work, which focus on patient experiencing agony in palliative and haematological cancer care. Nurses worked in a taxing environment, that can be highly stressful, and often they experience physical, psychological and spiritual exhaustion.

It brought to my awareness both the limitation and the capacity of medicine. Although there was no medical intervention that could cure the diseases of those terminal patients, their quality of life was improved  by an outstanding team of doctors, nurses and volunteers. This awareness helped reconcile myself to the fact that certain things, such as death and terminal illness, can not be avoided or changed. By viewing death as a natural part of life, I will be able to offer my dying patients the best care possible while also understanding my limitation as a physician and a human being.

(2008) Preliminary report of a palliative care and case management project in an emergency department for chronically ill elderly patients. Journal of Urban Health, 85 (3), 443-51. Montefiore Medical Center created a program in their Emergency Department that identified chronically ill, elderly patients. They found that these patients were more likely to need palliative or home care, and later on hospice care. This preliminary report and case management pilot project made connecting patients to such services and ultimately allowing patients far more accessible options to these types of care.

Introduction: As a first year student I have very specific goals in mind that I hope to achieve through my work in college. My main hopes for the future are that I pass all of my exams in the coming years, graduate and receive my honours degree in general nursing, become a registered nurse and finally get a job as a nurse. Throughout this essay, I have detailed my strengths and the opportunities that will help me finalise these goals along with my weaknesses and the threats that will hinder my progress. Strengths: