Question

What are some ways that greater incorporation of Palliative Care can serve to improve the patient experience?

Discuss what safeguards are needed to ensure that care is not unreasonably denied to patients.

Answer 1

The ways of greater incorporation of the palliative care can serve to improve the patient care are:

* understanding the advanced illness: the nurses must understand the illness completely with the last stage signs and symptoms. Requires the collaborative care in order to provide the holistic acre to the patients.

* training of the health care professional the providers must be trained in enable to handle the complies cases with judicial judgement and offering the best individualised approach to the patients.

* screening the need: identifying the patients and family who are in need which includes all the domains such as physical care, emotional support pastoral care and son on.

* extending and expanding services wereby the proper holistic care can be delivered

* monitoring the services the review and the audit has to take place routinely in order to improve the health care services which would be increasingly provide the best palliative care.

The safeguards need to ensure that care is not unreasonably denied to patients are taking the informed consent, maintaining the confidentiality, training and development of ethical principles.