Essays on End Of Life

End of life or palliative care is complex, demanding, and comprises of various ethical and moral issues for both the patients, provider, and family members. Palliative care may involve 3 ethical principles, i.e. beneficence, autonomy and veracity (Houser 2015).

Describe the ways the subjects were vulnerable.

In the article, the author provides an ethical and moral issue on how Josh, a 11-year old boy was not informed and consented for his lymphoma and palliative care. Josh was vulnerable since his parents decided to not disclose the line of treatment services that would be offered to him (Stringer 2013).

Is there any conflict of interest?

In Josh’s case, there is clear conflict ...

Abstract

A nurse is likely to face different worldviews constantly in their line of work. Such worldviews are often shaped by different religious and cultural beliefs. The question of euthanasia for patients with terminal illnesses lends itself to different worldviews and interpretations. George’s condition of ALS has forced him to consider euthanasia. From, a Christian standpoint, this choice is wrong because only God the Creator has the authority over life and death. Also, Buddhism does not favor euthanasia. The question of the causes of sickness also lends itself to religious interpretation. Christian interpretations are varied. One view is that ...

Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma: Euthanasia and Its Ethical Implications

Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma: Euthanasia and Its Ethical Implications There has always been debates on euthanasia and the giving of assisted suicide to patients experiencing severe, hopeless cases in their state of health. Euthanasia is said to be applicable in cases wherein the patients experience excruciating, intractable pain and suffering. However, pain has not always been the only thing important when coming to a decision on whether or not the family should apply euthanasia towards a living patient. As it was seen in the case of Terri Schiavo, who was brain-injured and relied mainly on feeding tubes to ...

Life is so precious and sacred, but after life, there is death. Many people would not like to dies, but death is inevitable. Besides, many people have different views and opinions about the end of life, and the article by Robert A. Krieg (retrieved from http://americamagazine.org/issue/609/other-things/perfect-end) about Catherine Mowry LaCugna gives various insights about the end of life which will be discussed in this paper. People must accept that there is death after life, just like LaCugna who always prayed for her to die perfectly. Again, Christians should remain faithful in God both in health and suffering, because all ...

Introduction

A brief description of death and the play: Death is the most feared concept on earth and humans would do anything within their power to avoid it. A brief summary of “Everyman” play: The play’s protagonist “Everyman” is used by the author to represent people on earth. The author also uses other virtues and vices as the other characters beginning the play with God sending Death to earth. Thesis Statement: In “Everyman” play "death" is used to portray the way people live on land and when it summons, every individual account for his or her actions in life.

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Quantitative research article

Empirical research in bioethical journals. A quantitative analysis by Borry, P., Schotsmans, P., & Dierickx, K.

Background/Introduction

The background of the research was to analyze the nature and evolution of the published empirical research in the fields of bioethics and medical ethics (Borry et al., 2006). This was prompted by an intense debate about the relationship between the normative and empirical perceptions of bioethics. By that time, there were only two studies which had described the nature and evolution of published empirical research in the field of bioethics and ethics and this study paper had to carry more research on this ...

Summary

According to philospher Justice in Swerissen and Duckett article a good death is about how individuals wish to die and reasons on the cause of good death. It makes pain life experiences to these people and family responses to the issue of terminating his life to avoid more pschological and cycological stress. The communirty at large has arole to play in ensuring that these patients are highly protected and care. Education and setting good standards for health services ensures that good life ending for these patients and their preferences maintained. A good death is one where an individual decides ...

The administration of proper medication is essential to the treatment of a health complication. As such, medical practitioners need to enforce proper measures in the issuance of medicine to enhance the betterment of patients (Bojesen et al. 375). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the value of medicines through the utilization of a case study. This study will be in line with the code of conduct for Oncologists since the medical practitioner in this scenario deals with cancer patients. Since the maintenance of confidentiality is essential to the success of the medical practice, the practitioners’ and patient’ ...

Introduction

The novel ‘The Book Thief’, by Markus Zusak is an exceptional work of fiction that has a very specific historical context. The novel is based on the experience of a nine years old girl, Liesel, who lives in Germany during the span of World War II. The most brilliant aspect of the novel is that the entire plot of the novel is narrated by death, which uses the life and experiences of Liesel to explain the atrocities and vagaries inflicted upon the people during the war. In terms of the characters in the novel, Liesel is definitely the protagonist ...

Objective Data

On April 28, 2016, I cared for a terminally ill patient, S.G., along with a group of nurses. The 84-year-old Caucasian female was admitted for heart failure and failure to thrive. She had a medical history of myocardial infarction, hypertension, and renal insufficiency, had not eaten since two days, and had gained 3 pounds in one week. Although alert to time, S.G. showed decreased consciousness. Her blood pressure was hypotensive (96/56), heart rate was tachycardia (120 beats/minute), and the respiratory rate was tachypnea (24/minute). Physical assessment revealed cold-to-touch lower extremities, crackles over all the lobes, and hypoactive bowel sound ...

The advancements in modern medicine in the last few decades are responsible for new treatment methodologies in treating deadly diseases. However, there are some areas of the human body that still remain a mystery. The human brain is one of the more complex organs and there is no forseeable outcome irrespective of the infirmity. The medical community faces hard choices whenever they encounter a difficult situation involving brain damage. The chances for recovery from a severe brain damage are slim. Hence, during such times, a hospital staff will request the family for consent to withdraw specific medical treatment or ...

English

Euthanasia has always been a controversial social issue in the cultures around the world. It is associated with ethical issues as well as social consequences. The term Euthanasia itself means, mercy killing. It is the process of ending someone's life based on that person’s own wish. When a person wants to end his life because he is suffering from a terminal disease or some other weakening condition, Euthanasia is often recommended. In most of the states of the United States, euthanasia is considered illegal. However in many states including California, physician-assisted suicides are legalized based on the requirement ...

Introduction

Detering, Arnold, & Dizon (2014) describe advance directives as the documents, which an individual completes while still having the decisional capacity regarding the way treatment decisions ought to be made on his/her behalf in the event he/she losses this decisional capacity. Thus, advance directives allow an individual clarify his/her decisions regarding end-of-life care in advance. According to Thomas & Lobo (2011), advanced directives failed in achieving their goals, which are giving the ill people and their family more control over their care and ensuring that their wishes regarding the rejection of treatment were recognized, even though they were not capable of ...

Is this a quantitative or qualitative research article?

Rome, Luminais, Bourgeois, & Blais (2011) article is based on qualitative research with a particular inclination on review of literature and descriptive statistics to explore the aspect of palliative care within the context of end of life. There is no primary data or any form of experimentation within this study (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015).

What are the problem and purpose of the research article?

Rome, Luminais, Bourgeois, & Blais (2011) indicate that palliative care is an essential component of the nursing process. For patients in end of life care, there is s tendency for patients to die in suffering and pain especially with the notion that death should be treated as an ...

Research Paper

Research Paper Chronic and terminal illnesses are familiar concepts in the healthcare industry. Different patients have different reactions to diagnoses with chronic and terminal illnesses, which requires the healthcare professionals to be comprehensively prepared to provide relevant care for each patient. Every patient is entitled to an autonomous right, and have the right to choose the type of care that they can accept. Physicians and healthcare professionals are ethically required to honor the rights of the patients while observing dignity and respect of every patient. When a person is diagnosed with terminal illness, he/she can choose to either receive ...

The current debate on whether to adopt or reject a law that aims at legalizing physician-assisted death has been met both with positivity and negativity in equal measures. While it is important to respect the decisions of patients in palliative care units, nurses are under an obligation to making sure that the decisions they make concerning this grave matter are supposed to be in line with the reasoning perspective and following the set-out laws and regulations, rather than from emotive and polarized positions. There is the need to take into account different perspectives of the issue at hand with ...

Introduction

Palliative care is associated with two major components. The first component is related to the emotional and psychological care of the patient and family members. The second component is based on the identification of pain and utilizing pain relief interventions based on current evidence. Palliative care is mainly provided by healthcare providers with a support from a team of experts trained and experienced in palliative care (Kwon, 2013. p. 910). The main objective of palliative care is relieve the patient from pain and pain symptoms. Palliative care and effective pain management are the cornerstones for a terminally-ill patient. The ...

A theory is a set of interrelated propositions that are used in guiding practice or explaining certain phenomena. Theories in the nursing profession play a crucial role in this regard. Theories help in explaining phenomena and organizing knowledge in the nursing practice. Additionally, theories help in predicting, explaining, prescribing and describing some aspects in the nursing profession. Through these roles, the theories provide guidance to the profession and help in improving practice and patient outcomes. This paper thus aims at describing, evaluating and discussing Katherine Kolcaba’s theory of comfort.

Theorists name and background

The theory of comfort is a mid-range theory that ...

An investigation into whether polypharmacy in hospice and palliative care patient population can be reduced, thereby affecting quality of life

Introduction Polypharmacy simply refers to the use of several medications by patients. Sometime patients are prescribed several medications than what is clinically allowed or a patient may be given too many pills of drugs despite being clinically indicated. In addition, sometimes the drugs given to patients may not be evidence based but their use is only based on the speculations. Polypharmacy has been described to have a lot adverse effect on patients despite the patients being on medication. Instead of improving the quality of life, polypharmacy may sometimes prove to be adverse on patients. Common consequences of polypharmacy include negative ...

Introduction

Learning conversation Summary Reflection and follow up Abstract

This document outlines a face to face interview with the Team Manager; leader of the Patient Care whose designation allows her to hire a BSN prepared nurse in hospice specialty. The interview culminates in a request for mentorship as well as a reflection and follow up section.

Introduction Besides she performs duties of a resource and mentor for staff as it relates to clinical issues, documentation, team problem solving and appropriate customer service behavior. Evaluating, staff and volunteer schedules, along with sequencing territory assignments is a mjor responsibility. This ensures that ...

“ARE RIGHT AND WRONG CONVERTIBLE TERMS, DEPENDANT UPON THE POPULAR OPINION”? : A famous quote by William Lloyd Garrison poses a critical question to each one of us. Certain questions carry a lot of dimension to look through and in such cases there are enough supportive reasons to justify the rightness of each dimension. One such question stands whether it is ethically justifiable to use narcotics to speed up the end of life. Right from its inception the question has been a cause celebre and continues to exist as one. Effective pain relief especially at the end of life has always ...

The elderly population, beyond the age of 65 has tremendously increased, and current projections indicate that this population will continually increase in the coming years. The healthcare settings have not gone free of these changing demographics, and there has been a need to develop policies that cut across all healthcare settings to facilitate quality care for the aging population (Bennett & Flaherty-Robb, 2003). Different literatures have addressed the issue of care for the elderly population in various ways. While many recommendations exist at technical level, the primary idea is that the healthcare sector needs to adopt policies that facilitate quality ...

This paper will give summary of the main ideas in part III. Thee many facts that are discussed by eth authors are also summarized here. In the book, the chapter talks about this thing. In the chapter, the author argues that the flattening if the world created two billion consumers and not competitors alone. This flattening of the world has made the consumers to demand for more energy. With all these demands, the author argues that there is a need to have additional clean and renewable energy. These additional needs have affected energy and food prices. The environment and global ...

Introduction

Quality of life and functioning relates to fulfillment of low level demands for life as outlined in Maslow’s hierarchy of basic human needs theory. It is the ability to acquire and enjoy fresh air as well as breathe efficiently. Also, it is to articulate one’s existence into self-actualization, which is the peak of successful living (Maslow, 1954 ). Therefore, in discussing this case study regarding the quality of life to be envisioned by a community health nurse for this distressed family it is imperative that strategies be designed to intervene for total well-being of all involved in Mrs. Thomas’ ...

End of life palliative care can be a stressful, even traumatic time for not only dying residents, but also for families and the medical staff working with them. Fortunately, there is much staff can do to alleviate stress. In my own experiences as a Health Care Assistant in a nursing home, I have helped residents, families, and other staff members deal with this difficult segment of life through palliative care, and I have learned much from them as well.

Working and Interacting With Others in Palliative Care

Making sure that dying residents and their family have as stress-free an experience as possible is extremely important as a Health Care Assistant and ...

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Introduction. The traditional model of end-of-life (EOL) care is not adjusted to the needs of patients with life-limited conditions other than cancer. By presenting a case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patient, Taylor (2011) develops representation of common patterns of dying in terminal stage lungs disease, and focuses on such patients’ needs to elaborate the optimal care model. This paper discusses the case presented in the video by Taylor & Trotman (2011) summarizing its key points and concepts. Legal Considerations. ACP made by hospice team together with Martin, under New Zealand’s common law, should be logically followed by ...

Introduction

The definition of physician assisted suicide is slightly different from the general term definition of euthanasia. Although some may equate physician assisted suicide with the blanket term, the distinction between euthanasia and physician assisted suicide is that the latter is done with both the patient’s and doctor’s intent to end the patient’s life by unnatural means (Tamayo-Vela´zquez, Simo´n-Lorda, and Cruz-Piqueras, 678). The doctor assists the patient in committing suicide, usually by administering an injection or pill that contains a lethal substance. A doctor may also administer a relaxant to help keep the patient calm during the ...

Introduction

In the entire world, the palliative care has become fundamental in relieving spiritual, mental, social and physical anguish in many people suffering from ailments (Catherine & Karen 2010). Numerous studies have looked at diverse ways that District Nurses effect on quality of life of their attendees. Such effects imply that compassionate care that embraces good communication and holistic approach is paramount right from the beginning of care giving. Notably, there are apparent lack of formal work based support availed to DNs that would help them to cope with emotional demands associated to this provision. Previously, then, needs to palliative address ...

Personal Ethics

Personal, cultural, and spiritual values contribute to your worldview and philosophy of nursing and their influence on my nursing practice Nursing provides an opportunity to help other people who are in need or are sick. An individual’s dedication to work mainly depends on their level of passion. A dedicated individual can be committed to providing the best quality service. This then translates to performing duties ethically. Performing duties ethically ensures that the safety and life of a patient is not placed at risk due to negligence or incompetence. Being ethical also implies that duties are performed excellently even ...

- Introduction End-of-life care is important for patients with advanced cancer. It entails palliative care, and friendly discussions with care givers and loved ones. This study will compare cancer patients who receive palliative care and those who do not receive end-of-life care in their last days I. Patients who receive end-of-life care live better compared to those who do not receive palliative care. From this source, profound information was gathered about cancer and ways to manage it in all stages. Physicians posit that cancer is a dreadful that requires great intervention. Notably, despite advanced medication and early treatment, the ...

Sibling Support in End of Life Care

Clinical Question P (problem/population) - siblings of actively dying patients I (Intervention) - sibling preparation and involvement at patient’s end of life C (comparison) - compared to no preparation and involvement

O (outcome) - impact grief response of the siblings

Target population – siblings aged between 3 and 21 years of incurably ill kids at end of life of patients. Sibling Preparation: This refers to the age and support information on the patient’s end of life status. It provides various opportunities for the sibling to hold, ask questions, and visit. It also refers to the participation of kids in activities that make memory ...

Introduction

Euthanasia is the act of providing assisted, voluntary or involuntary death to a patient, mostly terminally ill patients (ANA, 2013). Euthanasia can be administered by the physicians and nurses on request of either the patient, the relatives of a patient who is not in a position to make a request or by the physicians and the nurses depending on the condition of the patient. Euthanasia is an issue that has raised questions not only in the health care system but also in the legal system (ANA, 2013). It is surrounded by moral, social, cultural and religious challenges and finding a common ground to accommodate ...

A thesis in support of physician-assisted suicide

- Introduction:

My Thesis for this essay is “The Right to Die.”

The “Right to die” is fundamentally the decision of if a person has the right to choose to die when her/his life could be extended by life support. Through this thesis, I attempt to make an argument for this issue. I believe that a person must have the right to make this choice, legally and ethically. For the purpose of supporting my thesis; I will explain the historical and current system on the topic, the laws regarding euthanasia, real-life examples, and my recommendation why euthanasia should be legalized. - The History and Present of Physician-Assisted Suicide: Over ...

Introduction

There has been a rise in the concern relating to how human activities are affecting the environment. Over the last number of years, issues relating to environmental destruction and pollution are a concern of almost every nation in the world. The increasing use and exploitation of natural resources are resulting in the development of unwanted consequences such as increasing waste, which is affecting the lives of many individuals. As such recycling is aimed at reducing the amount of waste products that is discharged into the environment. According to Hill (2003), recycling is the process of changing waste products into usable products. ...

Political issues in nursing

Introduction Healthcare reform is built on the existing health insurance system and aims at providing more people with the coverage of health insurance. It also seeks to establish protection of customers legally and educate them how to buy insurances. The legislation proposed on health reform is intended to change how health care gets delivered, organized and financed. However focus has been put on the responsibility of federal government; impact of loweringMedicare spending growth rate; provision to pay physicians plus other practitioners who are qualified and collection of information about procedures for end of life care. The policy shows ...

Introduction

Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory, which is a middle range theory, is a holistic theory based on patients’ needs (Kristen, & Swanson, 1991). It is a theory on comfort management or palliative care where seriously ill patients and families are given specialized healthcare for them to have improved quality of life (that is, by reducing or eliminating the patients’ pain, anxiety, etc.). Comfort management is a core part of Kolcaba’s theory especially in nursing practice that seeks to ease discomfort, relieve pain, alleviate symptoms and assuage stress in patients with chronic diseases such as cancer. In comfort management, comfort or palliative care may be ...

1970-1980’s (Newman, Parse, Watson, Rogers) iv. Development of the metaparadigm per Fawcett

v. Development of paradigms 1. Simultaneity and Totality 2. Particulate-Deterministic, Interactive -Integrative, Unitary Transformative III. Discuss knowledge development in nursing (10 points) a. Carper’s Ways of Knowing b. Emancipatory Knowing c. Ways of unknowing d. Role of research e. Role of the socio political environment IV. Application/Synthesis for Advanced Practice (10 points)

Describe how the new advanced knowledge, in the course to date has informed and influenced your own perspective on nursing:

i. Philosophic a. What philosophy is most congruent with your own personal philosophy and why? ii. Paradigm of Nursing a. Discuss the congruence between your nursing philosophy and your nursing paradigm b. Describe ...

The Australian healthcare system is one of the most efficient healthcare systems in the developed world. According to a comparative health study of six nations funded by the commonwealth fund and conducted in 2005, Australia ranked the highest in quality healthcare scoring either the first or the second position in all the indicators used (Davis, 2007). Both the private entities and the national government through the ministry of health provide the Australian healthcare services. The ministry of health oversees the delivery of national health policy through the state governments. The government provides subsidized healthcare services through various initiatives including the ...

The question of paper versus plastic bags has long weighed on the environmentally-conscious. Determining what type of bag to use-- which type causes the least damage to the environment-- is a question whose answer could potentially change the way the world works. However, until relatively recently, the question of paper versus plastic remained unresolved. Through an analysis of paper and plastic bags, however, it can be seen that there are indeed benefits to using one over the other. To consider which type of bag is better for the environment, careful consideration regarding the manufacture, transportation, longevity, reuse, and disposal of ...

Hospice is a multidisciplinary approach to family-centered and holistic care for persons nearing the end of life. As such, patients receiving this type of care have terminal illness and are certified to have a life expectancy of six months or less (Crozier & Hancock, 2012). The focus of hospice care is to enhance the patient’s quality of life through symptom management and comfort measures. The patient, caregiver, and family also benefit from psychological and spiritual care, education, coaching, and grief support (Batchelor, 2012). Because of their life stage, pediatric patients have hospice needs unique from adults. Thus, pediatric hospice aims to ...

In regards to ethics, nurses have an obligation to fulfill the principles of beneficence, benevolence and non-maleficence. Not only are we required to do no harm (non-maleficence) but we are required to do good for our patients (beneficence). Yet our code of ethics goes beyond this. We are also required to fulfill the principle of benevolence which means providing aid when we know a patient needs assistance. When nurses help family members prepare documents naming a healthcare proxy or medical directive it can be difficult to do no harm which can occur if we seem to be discouraging of a prohibition of ...

Euthanasia has been one of the most controversial issues discussed in philosophy and medical fields. The term euthanasia refers to the deliberate actions of medical practitioners to end one’s life for benevolent reasons such a relief from suffering and pain (peter Odianosen on Immanuel Kant’s Moral Theory). Therefore, the controversy arising is the right to die at one’s own choice. There several ways through which euthanasia is performed. Voluntary euthanasia involves termination of a patient’s life at the patient’s instructions to the person other than the patient. It thus involves the termination of a terminally ill person, ...

Introduction

Palliative care focus principally on preventing, anticipating, diagnosing and managing symptoms suffered by patients with a life-threatening illness and assisting families create medically significant decisions (Lynn, 2005). The literature discuses the importance of providing age appropriate palliative care and nursing care using a palliative approach for a patient with neurodegenerative disease.

Importance of providing age appropriate care reflecting a palliative approach

Age appropriate palliative care has benefits to the patient and family members of the patient. As people age, they are prone to various chronic health problems (Weissman, 2011). For example, Parkinson's disease, which is the degenerative diseases, is one of the diseases that mostly affect the older population. Therefore, age palliative ...

The story “The End of Life as she knew it” is about a lady, Joan Didion who suffered a devastating peril involving her family on the Christmas day of 2003. Her problems began on that fateful Christmas day when her daughter Quintana who had suffered flulike symptoms was booked to the emergency room at Beth Israel North Hospital in the city of New York. The untimely attack of Pneumonia and septic shock sent her to the intensive care unit and had her booked up to a respirator. Five days later and before she could even show signs of recovery, Ms Didion’ ...

Introduction

Through the years, theorists use a variety of theories in attempts to explain human development socially, emotionally, physically and intellectually. Among the most used theories are those of psychosocial development; the main contributor is Erik Erikson. His theory on psychosocial development is one of the most influential personality theories; he focuses on the belief that a human being develops in stages. The occurrences at every stage develop the person’s psychosocial abilities; Erikson explores the influence of social experiences throughout a person’s lifespan (Cavanaugh & Blanchard-Fields, 2006). The development of ego identity is a significant element in Erikson’s stages; ego identity refers ...

PART A

Whether or not the right to liberty should be protected and observed at the time of death is a matter of debate. Philosophically speaking, right to liberty at the time of death ought to be upheld because the ultimate quality differentiating human beings from animals is the capacity to make decisions. Right to liberty is essentially the right to make decisions. The debate revolving around the right to liberty is the foundation for the concept of The Legal Right to Die (Palmer 87). Over the years, various decisions have been made with regard to the legal right to die. The ...

One of the current disease epidemics of the 21st century is cancer. Cancer has grown to worrying levels, and it has led to huge loss of lives. Currently, cancer is the leading disease causing loss of lives in America and other countries. The effects of the cancer epidemic not only affect individuals, but their relevant countries as a whole. For instance, in the USA the economical cost of cancer has continuously increased over the past few years. The thesis of my essay is the economic effects of cancer. This is in relation to the country’s economy as a whole, ...

Suicide and suicide attempts in the western world have long been considered criminal and punishable. Ancient Romans and Greeks prohibited most suicide, or suicide among the healthy, and punished those who committed suicide by denying them proper burial rituals (Rosenfeld 24). In England and the American colonies, laws continued to punish individuals who committed suicide by denying them a proper burial and both English and American laws found anyone assisting in suicide potentially guilty of murder. In the last several decades, questions about euthanasia and, specifically, the legality of physician-assisted suicide have repeatedly found their way into the legal system ...

Introduction

Some of the most interesting ideas about afterlife come from the ancient Chinese culture and the Buddhist religion. The close relationship between Chinese culture and Buddhism provides some intriguing insights into heaven and hell. Although Buddhism was introduced into China from India, some of the values of the Indian culture were not easy to understand, and this facilitated the modification of teachings of Buddha to fit the Chinese traditions and practices. The end result was Chinese Buddhism that was unique in some aspects. According to the Chinese Buddhists, death does not signify the end of life rather it is a ...

End of life alternatives: physician assisted suicide and continue sedation

Introduction Today, many people are dying in hospitals due to chronic disease which often call for a decision regarding the end of life. Sometimes, these decisions lead to the shortening of life and have often roused immense debate based on ethical implications. “Physician Assisted suicide” (PAS) remains one of the most debated subjects in ethical circles. This is whereby the physician provides a patient, at their own request, with a lethal form of medication which is self-administered by the patient. On the other hand, Continuous Sedation (CS) when used at the end of life takes or reduces the patient’s consciousness ...

Health promotion is the science or art that enables people to discover the synergies between optimal health and their core passions, thus enhancing their motivation to achieve good health and assisting them in changing their lives so as to move towards an optimal health status. Therefore, in other words, health promotion can be further explained to be the process that enables individuals to increase control over their health status and its determinants, and ultimately improving on their health. Generally, optimal health is perceived to be the dynamic balance of physical, spiritual, social and intellectual health. Consequently, various life changes ...

Introduction

Wald, J. & Negulesco, J. (1948). Johnny Belinda. {Motion Picture] United States, Warner Brothers. The movie that I will discuss about in my essay is entitled, “Jonny Belinda.” The movie director was Jean Negulesco and Jerry Wald produced it. Jonny Belinda was produced in September 14, 1948. The screenplay writers of the movie are Allan Vincent and Irma von cube. The movie is based on a play written by an American, Elmer Harris. The movie is in the category of American drama film .The writer had lived long in Prince Edward Island where he came across the story of a deaf ...

The concepts of palliative care began with the hospice. Originally the hospice was a resting place for wary travelers in the 4th century. In fact the latin term for hospice means to conceal or alleviate symptoms without curing”. However, by the 19th century hospice’s religious areas established hospices as places for the dying in London and in Ireland (News Medical). End of life care is a “modern” idea that began in the 1950’s and was first written about by Dr. Cicely Saunders (Loscalzo, 2008). She described her feelings and ideas based on the feelings of dying patients. Dr. Saunders ...

An issue that was already decades old in a 1994 ethics article (Emanuel and Emanuel), the cost of end-of-life care is an issue that provides both an economic and actual definition of the limitations of medicine. Eventually, all patients die, but the question becomes what treatment and care should be administered to patients in their end-of-life stage. Therefore, this issue defines both limitations in medicine in that there are conditions that modern medicine have no treatment for, as well as limitations from the point of view of the inherent waste in spending limited medical dollars on treatment of patients so ...

Jeff Stephenson

The Debate of Quality of Life as it Relates to End of Life Decisions In 1990, Terri Schiavo had a heart attack that placed her in a vegetative state for over a decade. The debate that surfaced as a result of her ailment had an enormous impact on how Americans viewed clinical autonomy. Clinical autonomy is the ability to appoint a person the control of your treatment in case you are not able to. Unconscious and unable to even feed herself, Terri was considered a “vegetable.” Prior to having a cardiac arrest, Terri had legally appointed her husband as the sole person in charge of ...

The topic that is I chose is end of life ethical issues. In this topic the researcher employed both qualitative and quantitative research methodology to substantiate the claims of his research. The research adopted scientific inquiry which involved the observation of the behavioral patterns of both terminally ill patients and the dynamics of society and making inferences based on these behavioral patterns. The researcher digs deep in determining the need for patients to terminate their lives before they are actually dead. Most of the respondents and the research sample used in this line of research indicate that many patients ...

Introduction

Waste management refers to the process of collecting, transporting and disposing trash, sewage and other waste materials. There are different sources of waste including residential, industrial, commercial, institutional, construction and demolition, municipal, agriculture and manufacturing and all these waste products whether solid, gaseous, liquid or radioactive come under the realm of waste management. The EU Waste Framework Directive lays down a legislative framework for the waste management and also provides a definition for waste. Article 1 of the EU Directive provides the definition of waste as "any substance or object which the holder discards, or intends to or is required to ...

Medical Care at the End of Life: A Catholic Perspective by David F. Kelly (end of life issues)

In the context of this book various ethical principles are analyzed with respect to the medical care at the end life of people and the support that people deserve at their end life. The book is broken into sections which try to expound on the principles guiding the healthcare at the end life of people. In the context of chapter one, the issue of ordinary and extraordinary means has been reflected with respect to end life medical care ethics. This shows the dilemma facing the medical professionals and the health institutions with regards to end life ethics. This ...

No one can clearly articulate the feeling that one experiences at death. While many people have a fear for death, there are many people who have come back from experiences that are close to death. These people who have had near death experiences have told pleasant experiences of life after death. For many people who have experienced these near death phenomenons, they have an unquestionable and steady belief on the presence of life after death (Hoof, p. 132). However, scientists believe that near death experiences are merely hallucinations produced by dying brains that are comparable to vivid dreams. In my ...

Medicine

Pre hospital care – paramedic This document outlines an analysis of the film “A Good Death” filmed at the Dunedin Hospital New Zealand. It was produced by Dr. Taylor who had a passion for end of life issues in patients with respiratory failure. This story embraced the turmoil of one of his patients, Martin Cavanagh.

Key features of the case

Key features of this case embody preparing to have a good death experience. Mr. Martin Cavanagh’s struggle was not only physical, but emotional. This emotional struggle apparently was transferred to his family who day after day just witnessed his agony. It would appear that after a ...