From words to acting: nursing care as an integral part of palliative care pf cancer patients

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  • Brigita Skela Savič

Abstract

Palliative nursing care is included in all aspects of palliative care of cancer patients. The central role in palliative nursing care always belongs to the patient and his family and their related needs, and not the prognosis of his illness. Nurse should be able to understand the process of comprehension and coping with progressing disease, as well as the impact of the patient’s condition of his family. The basic standpoint of palliative care is interdisciplinary team approach. Palliative nursing care is based on supportive model of nursing care which is most prominent when caring for a patient in hospice. The model was developed on the basis of analysis of work of nurses when dealing with pain. In hospital work the fact that palliative medicine, palliative nursing care and palliative care in the widest sense of the world, are, along with surgery, radiotherapy and system therapy, the fourth professional field of oncology which should be acknowledged, researched and developed. Postgraduate specialist education of physicians and nurses would be required. Specialist education would enable the integration of this specific field of patient car, which also represents a mirror of every developed society, in the work of health institutions on all levels and into wider community.

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Published

2005-12-01

How to Cite

Skela Savič, B. (2005). From words to acting: nursing care as an integral part of palliative care pf cancer patients. Slovenian Nursing Review, 39(4), 245–253. Retrieved from https://obzornik.zbornica-zveza.si/index.php/ObzorZdravNeg/article/view/2560

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