19. When a patient discovers that they’re terminally ill, they may get depressed or even see no reason to continue living. They may stop eating or reduce the amount of food they eat because of their anger, depression, or just ultimately feel as if nothing will help their situation. In my nutritional care, I would encourage the family to continue supporting the patient through their difficulties. They should motivate him to stay positive during these hard times. I would personally encourage the patient to remain optimistic. 3 questions I would ask is: What does he usual eat while home? Does he usually finish his meals. Being the family of this patients what wishes or concerns do you possess?
20. Unintended weight loss related to malnutrition as evidence by his usual body weight severely decreasing
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Mr. Seyer’s nutritional intervention will have to occur after his surgery. They can attempt to get him off his tube feeding. He can consume soft (non-spicy foods). Avoid juice or foods with high concentrations. If necessary, he can take tube feeding through the mouth.
24. Factors you should monitor for is Mr. Seyer’s weight and fluid levels to make sure he’s weight is stabilizing and his becoming more hydrated. His lab values should me monitor to ensure they’re normalizing.
25. A side effects of radiation is dysphasia. With individuals having trouble swallowing, it would be necessary to place a feeding tube in the patient to provide the adequate nutrients that would be loss due to a lack of completely consumed meals.
26. Mr. Seyer’s weight should be monitored to make sure he doesn’t continue to suffer weight loss. Fluid, caloric intake, and protein should be monitored in order to assure adequate nutrition is being supplied. Also, his lab values such as albumin, pre-albumin, and protein should be monitored to ensure he has limited amount of muscle wasting. Lab values such as RBC, HGB, HCT, should also be monitored to prevent
Thanks in part to the scientific and technological advances of todays’ society, enhanced medicinal treatment options are helping people battle illnesses and diseases and live longer than ever before. Despite these advances, however, many people with life threatening illnesses have needs and concerns that are unidentified and therefore unmet at the end of life, notes Arnold, Artin, Griffith, Person and Graham (2006, p. 62). They further noted that when these needs and concerns remain unmet, due in part to the failure of providers to correctly evaluate these needs, as well as the patients’ reluctance to discuss them (p. 63, as originally noted by Heaven & Maguire, 1997), a patient’s quality of life may be adversely affected. According to Bosma et al. (2010, p. 84), “Many generalist social work skills regarding counseling, family systems, community resources, and psychosocial assessments are relevant to working with patients and families with terminal illness”, thereby placing social workers in the distinctive position of being able to support and assist clients with end of life decisions and care planning needs. In fact, they further noted that at some point, “most social work practitioners will encounter adults, children, and families who are facing progressive life limiting illness, dying, death, or bereavement” (p. 79).
The Public Health Imperative measures the quality of life of an individual during times of severe chronic illness. This health imperative is characterized by: the potential to prevent suffering caused by the illness, major impact, and high burden. In the recent past is has become evident that care for older people, who have potential to become terminally ill, must be focused on. The types of patients may also lose the capability to make some of their most important decisions which include actions made by health professionals that are related to their end of life situation. Luckily actions were made to identify certain priorities pertaining to the public health and end of life issues. These priorities were established by the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors and the Healthy Aging Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These end of life health priorities which address short-term, medium-term and long-term needs are also called advanced care planning. It can be concluded that communication between professionals and among families about the patient can enhance the effectiveness of advanced care planning.
Moving forward, people should be able to be put out of their misery of their terminal illness. This is something that without a doubt will tear a person to shreds. This type of news, “can trigger feelings of depression, in both patient and loved one. These feelings can be severe or mild and can often be just one of the stages that a person goes through when learning of catastrophic news” (Terminal Illness). Some terminal illnesses this time is also very stressful with decisions that one can make. Although depending on what the patient has, the illness can be brutal and
Assisted suicide is a very controversial topic. Some people believe it is morally wrong to end someone’s life, while others think that if someone is terminally ill and suffering, they should be given the option to die on their own terms. The Death with Dignity Act is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1997 in Oregon; soon Washington and Vermont followed after, and now California has passed this law but it still has not went into effect. This is a movement that offers patients the right to die with dignity rather than allowing the illness to kill them slowly, and painfully. More specifically it gives them the freedom to an option. It can be from either physician assisted suicide or euthanasia. Although both words are used interchangeably
Introduction This lab will evaluate the body composition of the subject. This lab includes measuring BMI, girths of the body, skin folds, and hydrostatic weighing. BMI or body mass index is important to measure because it categorize degree of obesity of the subject.(Adams and Beams 273) As BMI and the degree in obesity increase so to does the risk of chronic disease. These disease include hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and metabolic syndrome. In this lab girths around the body will be measured and put into ratios.(Adams and Beams 281)
Some additional information that is needed to determine James’ intake and whether or not he is failing to meet his nutritional needs are his physical activity level and an example of what James typically consumes on a daily basis. It says nothing about his physical fitness within the medical record, although it does state that “he was functionally independent” (Bernstein & Munoz, 2016). This is something that is important to know because it affects the amount of calories James needs to take in on a daily basis, and is also necessary for tools such as the DRI calculator. While it says that his diet is low sodium, it is also important to have an example of what James consumes in a given day (Bernstein & Munoz, 2016). With this information, we can compare that to what he actually needs on the Supertracker. This would allow us to deduce if he was meeting his nutritional needs or not.
Dr. Murray, the chief resident who arrived around 8:00pm, charted Lewis’ heart rate as normal and noteds a probable ileus; however, nursing documentation at the same time recorded a heart rate of 126 beats per minute (Monk, 2002). Subsequent heart rates at midnight and 4:00am arewere charted as 142 and 140 beats per minute respectively without documented intervention (Monk, 2002 ). On Monday morning Lewis noted that his pain suddenly stopped after being very constant and staff charted that they were unable to get a blood pressure recording in either arm or leg from 8:30-10:15am despite trying multiple machines (Monk, 2002; Solidline Media, 2010).
...concerns appropriate interventions were assigned to each one. For the priority concern of the family’s ability to cope and their risk of depression commendation and interventative questioning were the chosen interventions. For the priority concern of Gilberts care giver burnout and risk for compassion fatigue commendation and encouraging respite were chosen. The Grape family is a fitting example of the complex difficulties a family can have when they are faced with the difficulty of dealing with a chronic illness and tragedy. This paper demonstrates the importance of assessing and creating interventions for a family in a way which includes every member of the family not only the ones with complications. Raising the question should patients who are suffering from chronic illnesses better off to be treated as an individual or as a member of a functional family unit?
The first component of the MUST involves measuring the patient’s height and weight to establish their Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI is the’ relationship b...
they measured the patient's height, weight (first asked them to answer and then compared weight from six months ago to now) (Correia & Ravasco, n.d., 2014)
Assisted suicide brings up one of the biggest moral debates currently circulating in America. Physician assisted suicide allows a patient to be informed, including counseling about and prescribing lethal doses of drugs, and allowed to decide, with the help of a doctor, to commit suicide. There are so many questions about assisted suicide and no clear answers. Should assisted suicide be allowed only for the terminally ill, or for everyone? What does it actually mean to assist in a suicide? What will the consequences of legalizing assisted suicide be? What protection will there be to protect innocent people? Is it (morally) right or wrong? Those who are considered “pro-death”, believe that being able to choose how one dies is one’s own right.
disease that Stephen Hawking has) 5 years ago. This is a condition that destroys motor nerves, making control of movement impossible, while the mind is virtually unaffected. People with motor neurone disease normally die within 4 years of diagnosis from suffocation due to the inability of the inspiratory muscles to contract. The woman's condition has steadily declined. She is not expected to live through the month, and is worried about the pain that she will face in her final hours. She asks her doctor to give her diamorphine for pain if she begins to suffocate or choke. This will lessen her pain, but it will also hasten her death. About a week later, she falls very ill, and is having trouble breathing.
Assisted Suicide. Pain. That's all he feels most days. No matter how many pills they give him.
" ... I didn't do it to end the life. I did it to end the suffering the patient is going through. The patient is obviously suffering. What's a doctor supposed to do, turn his back?
Context as well as process is important. Communication difficulties include lack of involvement of the patient in discussions, inadequate provision of information to the patient and family, and the physician's discomfort in sharing information, particularly about prognosis. Individualised assessment of needs and expectations is recommended as few characteristics of the patient predict his or her need for information. Information about prognosis should respect individual coping styles of patients and relatives and has been reported as important to families of patients in palliative care. A qualitative study of informal caregivers of patients with terminal cancer recommended an individualised approach to address needs for information about the illness and