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Hospice Care, 2002.
An examination of the integrated clinical judgment model of hospice care.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper examines and addresses the integrated clinical judgment model of hospice care. This model shall provide a detailed examination of the aspects of this clinical model that distinguish it from other models of hospice care, with an emphasis on the aspects of this model that are most highly recommended when utilizing the hospice model. The strengths and the weaknesses of this model are also discussed.
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Hospice Care, 2007.
This paper discusses whether hospice care is the way to the future.
1,813 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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This paper seeks to better understand what hospice care entails in Canada. It reviews some of the barriers faced by patients, families and palliative nurses with end of life issues. It discusses how quality of care at the end of life has many significant issues. The writer notes that countless citizens who could benefit from palliative care do not receive it or obtain it during the last few days or weeks of their illness. The author touches on strategies for overcoming the existing barriers in community based hospice care as well as how nurses can be leaders in ensuring that appropriate palliative care is received.
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"Hospice care is not only for the patient; but for their family and friends as well. Emotional, spiritual, physical and social needs are addressed by the palliative team. Hospice provides tailored services in a caring community where patients and families attain the required groundwork for a death that is satisfactory to them. The nature of dying is one of a kind so that the goal of the hospice team is to be responsive and receptive to the special needs of each individual and family."
"Although hospice-palliative nurses bring expert knowledge and skills to the delivery of comprehensive and empathetic care to persons and families living with advanced illness, studies reveal that due to enormous barriers in end-of-life care in nursing homes and patients' residences, unnecessary suffering occurs at the bedside."
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Hospice Care, 2005.
An overview of the history and present concepts hospice care.
1,616 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 52.95
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This paper delves into what the word 'hospice' means and the history of the program. It looks at the current concept of the program, costs involved, and the statistics relating to hospice care in the health industry. The author of the paper also uses personal examples.
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"Hospice care is not just for the patient; it also includes the whole family. Emotional, spiritual, physical, social needs, and practical care are provided following the patient's wishes and family needs (Aupperle, MacPhee, Strozeski, Finn, & Heath, p.430). Hospice provides personalized services and a caring community so that patients and families can attain the necessary preparation for a death that is satisfactory to them. The nature of dying is so unique that the goal of the hospice team is to be sensitive and responsive to the special requirements of each individual and family. Hospice provides continuing contact and support for caregivers for at least a year following the death of a loved one. Most hospices also sponsor bereavement groups and support for anyone in the community who has experienced a death of a family member, a friend, or similar losses".
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Hospice Care in America, 2004.
An investigative paper on hospice staff, volunteers, and hospice patients.
1,450 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper presents an introduction to hospice care in America. The paper examines the hospice services provided and their successes. A personal observation of hospice care is portrayed. Through a survey of hospice volunteers and staff, the paper succeeds in offering a clearer understanding of hospice care.
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"There are very few critics of the Hospice organization, and rightfully so. Who could criticize such a helpful, vital organization? Indeed, if Hospice wasn?t available to provide their pivotal services, then who would be there? A key reason for the value of the Hospice group is that there is a general acceptance among thoughtful people that Americans do not handle death very well. And when death hits someone in his or her family suddenly, or even when there is a long-term illness in the family, leading inevitably to death, most families are not prepared. Hospice delivers humanitarian care and nurturing to not only the terminally ill, but also to their loved ones, before and after the passing."
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Hospice Care and Culture, 2006.
A discussion regarding the team effort required by the medical staff caring for a terminally ill patient.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses how the hospice situation involving the care of the terminally ill patient, requires the team effort on the part of all those involved in order to provide quality care at the end of life. The paper further discusses how, with regard to nursing, this requires managed care that does not lead to cures, but that provides for the comfort and care of the patient in the immediate future.
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Home Health Care and Hospice, 2002.
This paper examines the topic of the management of chronic pain in home health care and hospice care.
2,442 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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There has been a massive shift in thinking about chronic pain and pain management, from seeing pain as a secondary characteristic to the disease, to seeing pain as a primary problem. The writer explores the issue and the surrounding controversy. The paper looks at the ways in which financial cutbacks in home health care and hospice have led to fewer employees and a stronger reliance on pain medication.
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"In an article in the Columbian (Oregon leads quiet revolution, 1999), a graphic example of one of the ongoing problems in the management of chronic pain was illustrated in the story of a man who hurt his back in 1988. Although in chronic pain, his doctors hesitated to provide him with narcotics for long-term pain relief because of the fear of drug addiction. Despite the fact that things are changing, pain management in home health care and hospice has often been shaped more by politics than by scientific knowledge about the effects of pain and its management. Both doctors and patients still exhibit resistance to appropriate pain management, fearing addiction, acting from ignorance, or feeling that patients should simply be more stoic. In the following pages, the intention is to explore this issue in more detail."
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Hospice Services, 2004.
An overview of hospice services and evaluation of the advantages of setting up a program in Egypt and Morocco.
2,726 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 81.95
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This paper examines how hospice is a much needed service that has revolutionized the care and treatment of terminally ill patients during the final months of their lives. It also looks at how Egypt and Morocco are faced with rising populations, tight health care budgets, and a need to care for the dying. It discusses how allowing hospice services to set up services in these nations would alleviate many of the current dilemmas being faced in the industry and how the large numbers of volunteers would reduce the cost to treat terminally ill patients. It also looks at how the education about dying would assist families to accept the inevitable and show them how to support the patient during this final transition of life. It shows how hospice is changing the way dying is viewed, and moving the organization into Egypt and Morocco would be an excellent start by providing a pilot program in the countries for other nations to observe and evaluate.
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"The medical care in Morocco has not progressed as quickly as the population needs it to. The past few years have seen budget problems nationwide when it comes to the needed medical care in the country<Healthcare & Medical Market in Morocco http://www.tradepartners.gov.uk/healthcare/morocco/profile/overview.shtml>. Implementing a Hospice service in Morocco will help alleviate some of that need as the Hospice organization depends heavily on volunteers. The use of volunteers and nurses to handle the care and education of the terminally ill and their family members will go a long way in cutting down the financial strain currently placed on the health field in that country."
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Community Health and Hospice, 2005.
An analysis of the nursing profession and hospice healthcare.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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The paper examines the subjects of nursing, healthcare and the nursing profession in a hospice environment. The paper discusses measurable outcomes of a hospice agency and how the outcomes influence the nursing profession. The paper further examines the collaborative environment in hospice healthcare.
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"Having had an opportunity to review Brad Kirkman-Liff's article entitled "Keeping an Eye of a Moving Target: Quality Changes and Challenges for Nurses" (2002, November-December) that which impressed me most was the importance the author placed on the need for a sound operations management program within the healthcare environment. Although Kirkman-Liff does not label his analysis of quality healthcare as an operations management program, all the components listed (demographics, technology, financing, care management) are basic considerations in the delivery of healthcare services to the medical consumer. "
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Living the Life of a Hospice Worker For a Week, 2002.
This paper presents an immersion essay about ?Alive Hospice?, an organization catering to the needs of the dying.
1,745 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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The following paper provides understanding of the organization, ?Alive Hospice?, an organization that provides care while the patient enters end stages of disease and then goes through the process of dying. The writer examines what its volunteers provide for the terminally ill patients that it serves.
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?In recent decades, medical science has advance to the point that people are living longer than ever before, and with that life comes a quality of life that is enjoyed well into the golden years. For those who are among the living the world is a beautiful place. However, for those whose lives are ending, the world can be a place filled with fear and uncertainty as one goes from doctor to doctor in search of hope and miracles. Then, when they announce the final curtain, that the patient is all out of options and the only path now is death, there are decisions to be made. Many people are afraid of dying in the clinical setting of a hospital, but they are not sure there are options. There are.?
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Living Wills, 2006.
Evaluation of options for end-of-life care, including hospice care and living wills.
764 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper examines different options for end-of-life care. In particular, hospice programs are described as well as different cultural attitudes toward euthanasia. The beliefs in the United States are compared to those in Europe and Japan. Living wills are discussed as a choice for one to advocate for his own care were he to become incapacitated. The paper ends with an example of a living will.
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"Although a good portion of the advances in health care made during the 20th Century surrounded the prolongation of life, it cannot be ignored that the last forty years have seen a significant increase in the amount of study and attention paid to issues surrounding end of life factors. There has appeared a more structured and linear approach to the management of terminally ill patients, as well as a greater acceptance and implementation of advanced directives. To add to this the greater availability of good quality palliative and hospice care, and death no longer becomes a passive and painful process, but rather a stage of life that requires certain steps and attendance to certain issues. This is not to say that end-of-life care is perfected. A good example would be to show that, despite the ready availability of hospice programs, they remain significantly underused by the patients who would qualify. It may be an issue of pride, but primary care providers are often slow to refer patients to hospice programs, and when it is done, then the length of time that service is provided until the time of death is often such a short time that the patients are not able to get the benefit that a full-spectrum hospice program could provide "
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Palliative Care, 2006.
A discussion regarding palliative care.
1,528 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper takes a look at palliative care, the union of medical, spiritual, and cultural considerations into a holistic, compassionate approach geared toward reducing the severity of symptoms. According to the paper, palliative care focuses on comfort and pain management rather than on curative measures and emphasizes care for terminal patients and their families. The paper reviews the video 'On Our Own Term: Moyer on Dying', part of a series called "A Different Kind of Care".
Outline:
On Our Own Terms
Hospice and Palliative Care
Spirituality, an Aspect of Palliative Care
Reflection
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"In most cases, death brings the terminally-ill patient toward spirituality; indeed, this is the essence of existence for the majority of people. Whether or not we have strayed from our religious backgrounds, most people when close to death seek to understand the big questions of life. As a nursing student from a Catholic university, I have studied a curriculum that encompasses many aspects of life, including spirituality. However, most student nurses at the developmental age of college students focus on careers and relationships which can distance them from spirituality, probably the most important issue for a terminally-ill patient. How can we, as nursing students, discuss spirituality with patients at the end of life when some of us are either too young for spiritual awareness or too old and cynical? More importantly, how can we use spirituality in our nursing practice if our training has concentrated on oxygenation, safety, nutrition, and other health issues?"
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End of Life Care, 2007.
This paper discusses end of life (EOL) care programs in the healthcare sector in the United States.
1,044 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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The paper examines three programs that dominate EOL care in the current healthcare sector in the US. These include the inpatient/ICU or hospital-based palliative care program, nursing homes and hospice EOL programs. The paper analyzes their efficiencies, explains the advantages and disadvantages of ICU palliative care programs and finally posits that among the three, both hospice and nursing home programs are determined as better options than the ICU program. The paper explains that this is primarily because these two programs provide the care, efficiency and satisfaction that the elderly need as they go through the end of life phase in their lives.
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"The argument for the ICU palliative programs is put forth by Imhof (2005), who recommended utilizing the ICU palliative programs provided in hospitals (hospital-based programs). EOL care services, as argued by the author, provide numerous benefits to the facility of the patient's care, that is, hospital-based programs "require limited organizational effort, pose minimal risk, and cause little disruption to the ongoing operations of the organization" (161). Apart from these advantages of the hospital's palliative programs, patients enjoy other services that come with the program, such as the provision of informational literature for the patient and his/her family, consultation services, palliative care rooms, and additional linkages with the community through collaboration with local hospice, home health agencies, and long-term care facilities and integration into the community (of the patient) (162)."
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Death In Pediatric Health Care Units, 2002.
Examines family and health care staff stress.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 44 sources, $ 119.95
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Examines family and health care staff stress. Emotional and psychological impact. Children's understanding of death and their special set of needs. Other environments for dying children than hospitals (professional home care, pediatric hospice). Psychosocial effects on families and on medical professionals. Issue of burnout in oncology staff. Need for end-of-life education.
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"This research examines family and health-care-staff stress in the context of death in health-care pediatric units. The plan of the research will be to provide an overview of the subject and then to present a review of relevant literature, with a view toward identifying major and subsidiary issue fronts relative to this topic.
That a child should predecease his parents is the most wretched of cosmic ironies. The subject has informed a body of popular literature, of which John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud, written in 1949 and taking its title from a sonnet by John Donne, is exemplary:
The impending death of one's child raises many questions on one's mind and heart and soul. It raises all the infinite questions, each answer ending in another question. What is..."
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Ending Care at the End of Life, 2004.
Examines options in and provisions for medical care of the terminally ill patient.
2,381 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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Everyone dies. Prior to that moment, there lies a need for comprehensive, compassionate care of the terminally ill patient. This paper examines three primary arenas for the provision of palliative care. Firstly, the paper examines the hospital setting with 24 hour staff, pharmacy and equipment, acute care and ready access to care. It then looks at nursing homes which provide similar benefits, but in a more comfortable, private surrounding. Finally, the paper looks at inpatient hospice programs which accommodate terminally ill patients in their own homes with the broadest spectrum of palliative care. Proper planning, through the establishment of advanced directives and communication between the patient, his or her family, and the attending physician, enables the implementation of the most desired and most appropriate level of care when needed.
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"For those individuals whose life expectancy and acuity level make the hospital setting impractical, another option exists in the form of terminal care in the nursing home. Approximately 20 percent of Americans will die in skilled nursing facilities. (Keay & Schonwetter 2). Grouping terminal patients in such a manner provides a unique opportunity to address their needs. With a more comfortable, private space for the patient, a staff present at all times, and ready access to medicines, the nursing home seems primed to provide a measure of care that could match or even surpass the hospital environment."
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Palliative Care, 2006.
A discussion regarding palliative care in patients with life limiting health conditions.
2,073 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper discusses palliative care, focusing on the ethical and practical considerations that must be taken into account. The paper also explores the ways in which individuals living with life limiting conditions, receive and experience palliative care services.
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Introduction
Statement of Problem
Background of Problem
Literature Review
Medicare Hospice Benefit
Barriers Associated With Receiving Palliative Care
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"According to Foley (2005) the terms palliative care and hospice care are often used interchangeably. In the United States palliative care was once known only as hospice care and it started at the grassroots level to enhance the quality of care for patients that were dying in their homes. Today hospices are often referred to as palliative care and it is a fully funded entitlement program that provides care for half of the people in America that die of cancer and 30% of those that die of a myriad of other chronic diseases (Foley, 2005). The new palliative care movement has been created in an effort to improve the care of those that are dying of a terminal illness. The philosophy of this new palliative care movement aims to improve the quality of life for the terminally ill and their families (Foley, 2005). "
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