Hospice Patient Observation

During hospice process, patients start to forget things and they need someone to remind them of the date, or the name of someone. Most family members place photo frame of patients’ husband, grandchildren, and an important events that had taken place in their lifetime at their bed side as a reminder. Helping patients look through their wedding photos help them remember the time they were excited to get married. Some people have a calendar and watch place around the house for patients to remind them of date, and time. As people age, their memories start to fade, they do not remember some of the events from their past, and they constantly ask for the same thing multiple times. In hospice’s patients (P), how does reflecting on old photos (I) compare

The article was qualitative research, level five of evidence because the study interviewed participants to find a solution to psychological issues which hospice patients faced. The study recruited nine British volunteers from ages 21 to 84 years old. The study also had more female participants than males, and the participants had many years of volunteering experience (Elliott & Umeh, 2013). The volunteers talked to researchers face to face in a private area about their personal experiences in working with patients. The participants gave their permission to the researchers to record the interview. Since the interview was based on the participants’ experiences, qualitative design was used to collect data on things they thought were an essential aspect of volunteering. This gave them an opportunity to speak about several things they found helpful for their patients. Grounded theory was an act of a framework based on data instead of limited pre-existing literature. The authors used this theory to analyze the volunteers’ experience in the hospice care to eliminate any assumption people may have about the study since it was qualitative research (Elliott et al.,

This will make patients feel happy and relax because it gives them an opportunity to talk about their grandchildren. Nurses can also use the information from the article as a reminder when they are caring for hospice patients at the hospital to provide emotional support. This article helps nurses understand that assessing patients’ spiritual and emotional are extremely essential, and it is part of a holistic view. They need to focus more on patients’ psychological wellbeing and help them reminisce on things they did when they were younger. Listening to patients tell story about their past experience does not only make the them feel happy, but it opens a door for the nurse to learn intriguing things that you did not know about the patients before, and that may help the nurse view the patients in a different way. This article can be useful in the health care practice, nurses can encourage patients to talk about the things they had done in their lifetime, and also apply it in their field to improve patients’ mental