How To Look After End Of Life Patient. Be prudent in deciding if intensive nourishment is in the interest of the patient. Providing a high quality of life should be your main focus which may be easier early on when you can still participate in a range of activities together.
Questioning spiritual or religious beliefs jobcareer choices or life goals. Around 500000 people die each year in the UK. When a patient is dying whether its on a hospital ward or on a community visit entering in to their environment can feel daunting.
Its important that you look after yourself at all times.
Feelings of anger guilt loneliness depression emptiness or sadness. This article aims to provide a brief and basic overview of looking after the end-of-life patient whether at home or in hospital by utilising a framework adapted from the 2016 International Association of Animal Hospice and Palliative Care and American Animal Hospital Association Guidelines IAAHPCAAHA. New guidelines to improve care for people at the end of life The guidelines aim to put the dying person at the heart of decisions about their care so that they can be supported in their final days in accordance with their wishes. Peer to peer support providing a supportive workplace using reflective practice supervision opportunities defusing and debriefing are all ways of dealing with these emotions.