Life Care Plan
In 1981, Paul Deutsch and Fred Raffa introduced the term life care plan (LCP) into the health care literature. Life Care Plans provide an organized plan for the current and future health needs of a patient with chronic health care needs or has experienced a catastrophic injury. Unlike plans of care, which focuses on planned interventions, the life care plan projects the patient’s needs in the future. The LCP is developed using a comprehensive assessment, data analysis, standards of practice, and research. Life care plans are used by multiple disciplines and each one must adhere to standards of practice for their individual profession. In addition, each professional must provide direction and assure accountability for the
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Patients may have spiritual needs to reach their life goals, but have not realized it. The planner must have knowledge of the patient’s cultural/ethnic background, which can allow for appropriate questions regarding spirituality. In order to prevent potential harm to the patient, the life care planner has to have knowledge of alternative words used to refer to spiritualty and respect the patients’ preferences. The life goals assessment explores the patients’ desires for achieving goals in their life (National Cancer Action Team, …show more content…
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We as health care professionals need to work side by side with the families to provide the best care and decisions that are right by our patients. We have to be mindful of the cause and effect our course of treatment depicts for our patients. No individual wants to live in pain or misery, we all want to be healthy and happy and are willing to go great lengths to achieve this goal. Death is the final stage of life, but as we live and get older we start to prepare for death as to not fear death but accept it. Health care professionals may benefit from the opportunity to acknowledge, normalize and integrate death and dying into the continuum of life, both for themselves as well as their patients. (Sinclair, 2011) With advancements in technology and medicine we are living longer and fuller lives, and given time quality of life will only continue to improve.