Palliative care for a dignified death. A case study
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Introduction: This study shows the experience of a nursing student while performing an intervention plan focused on palliative care, highlighting some issues related to the importance of quality-care and case addressing.
Method: A patient diagnosed with the Patau Syndrome was selected to receive palliative quality-care. Nursing diagnoses were based on the PES format (problem, etiology, signs and symptoms). A nursing attention process (PAE) was implemented. The assessment was based on the basic needs format of the Virginia Henderson model.
Intervention plan: Once the patient care objectives were established, palliative care was provided with the focus on improving the patient ́s quality of life. The patient ́s basic needs were adequately satisfied.
Conclusions: The palliative care-quality will determine our patient ́s quality of life, as it the consequence of the timely nursing interventions. All people have the right to a human and scientific care, and therefore, receiving an end of life attention should not be considered a privilege but an authentic right.
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