Introduction: Nurses are essential to interdisciplinary palliative care and make an important contribution to meeting the needs of people with a life limiting illness. Nurses need to be responsive to these needs by integrating new models of care and practice knowledge and skills whilst negotiating their scope of practice with other health professionals. (100-150 words)
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to explore the philosophy of palliative care and the contribution nursing makes in caring for patients with palliative care needs.
Clinical context – Describe your practice setting and your role in providing palliative care. Outline the model of care and how palliative care is delivered in your practice setting. (500 words)
Palliative care Philosophy (3-400words)- Explore the philosophy of palliative care and how this is integrated into your practice setting including factors such as:
Challenges, issues, barriers (2000 words. Main part of this essay. Identify the challenges and discuss how we could improve)
Identify and critically analyse the challenges in providing palliative care in your practice setting and discuss recommendations to improve patient outcomes. Consider: