Hospice care is care for people who are no longer seeking a cure or treatment for their disease. The goal of hospice care is to provide the highest quality of life for a person for whatever time remains in their life. Generally a person who receives hospice care has been diagnosed with six months or ...
The main debate concerns situations in which patients, or in many cases their family members, request treatment at the end of life that many physicians feel to be of no real benefit to the patient. In other words, Steven H. Miles and Felicia Ackerman debate whether or not physicians are required or morally obligated in ...
Nurses are required to continue their education with the goal of improving their professional capabilities. Additionally, researchers continue to search for ways to improve the effectiveness of the nurses in the healthcare field and publish these findings in journals. Nursing researchers have several strategies they can follow when developing methodologies for superior nursing practices. Biology ...
What would be the impact if a patient had signed an advanced directive? According to Morrison (2009) family members who are making choices for their loved ones “often have a sizable stake in how treatment decisions go, and their interests influence the decisions making, the orthodoxy regards the process as morally contaminated” (p. 203). In ...
