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Nearing the End of Life Dare to Care by Nancy Joyner
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Nearing the End of Life Dare to Care by Nancy Joyner
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Outline:
- An Inexact Art & Science
- Illness and dying trajectories
- Frailty
- Dementia
- Prognostication and prognostic scales
- When to refer to palliative care or hospice (disease specific)
- Essentials of Care: Comfort, Communication, Choices, Control
- Comfort Always
- Morphine: Still the gold standard?
- Pain during the final hours of life
- Drug misuse: How to avoid it
- Opioids for dyspnea
- Thirst vs. xerostomia
- Medical marijuana
- Complementary and alternative therapies
- Emotional distress interventions
- The role of spirituality
- Palliative sedation
- Communication: Everyone is Involved
- Advance care planning: More than just a form
- The terminology matters
- Your role in these critical conversations
- How much can we share?
- Truth vs. hope
- Code status discussions
- DNR does not mean do not treat
- Addressing concerns and needs of the family
- Thanatophobia: Is it fear of dying or fear of death?
- Premortem surge
- Near death awareness
- The dying process
- Choices: Shared Decision-Making
- Nutrition & hydration choices
- Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED): Benefits & burdens
- Life-sustaining treatment
- Non-beneficial treatment choices
- Faith-based influences
- Ventilator support
- Dialysis or renal palliative care
- Devices to extend life
- Hastened death request: Why not humanely euthanize?
- Allowing Control: Patient-Centered Care
- Reframing hope
- What do family members want you to consider
- Who makes the decision
- What about family dysfunction…
- Is the focus quality or quantity?
- Decision to withhold or withdraw care
- Challenging decisions: Honoring patients’ wishes
- Cultivating Moral Resiliency
- Moral resilience–preserving/restoring integrity
- Personal vs. professional grieving
- Enabling character and honorable action
- Ethical Competency
- Comfort Always
