Palliative Care Nursing
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Palliative care:
- provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms;
- affirms life and regards dying as a normal process;
- intends neither to hasten or postpone death;
- integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care;
- offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death;
- offers a support system to help the family cope during the patients illness and in their own bereavement;
- uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counselling, if indicated;
- will enhance quality of life, and may also positively influence the course of illness;
- is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications.
Source: World Health Organisation
At present, there are about 50,000 people living in Australia with some sort of life-threatening illness that will not only shorten their lifespan but sharply reduce their quality of life. They need palliative care.
Keeping this in mind, Nursing Links Universal has a team of highly skilled and qualified palliative care nursing staff who have experience working in palliative care.
The palliative care nurse and nursing assistants provide expert pain and symptom management as part of any ongoing treatment as well as other practical support services for the individual and their families.
Pain can be very stressful on families and an experienced support system goes a long way. Our palliative care nurses provide palliative care in the home, aged care or other residential care facility and hospital or hospice settings.
Find out more about how out palliative care nurse can bring a breath of fresh air and some support methods which makes living more enjoyable in stressful situations.
Call now on 02 9427 2252.