Nurse preparations & Responsibilities
What are two of the approaches for preparing the nurse for exploring palliative care with Victoria?
What is?
- Upstream Orientation
- Engaging in Self-Assessment
- Reviewing the Illness Trajectory
- Addressing Knowledge Gaps
- Preparing Effective Communication Strategies
What are the four tools described in our presentation?
- LEAP Course
- Serious Illness Conversation Guide
- Spiritual Health Liasion
- Palliative Care at Home Binder
Patients and families may confuse palliative care with this type of end-of-life care, prompting nurses to clarify the differences.
What is hospice care?
Managing nausea, pain, fatigue, and dyspnea requires both pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, a key concept from this module.
What is symptom management?
This type of early, proactive discussion helps patients understand their values, fears, and goals before the final stages of illness.
What is an upstream palliative care conversation?
This member of the healthcare team provides emotional and spiritual support, helping patients explore meaning, grief, hope, and existential concerns.
Who is the spiritual health liaison?
Because doctors may use complex terminology, patients sometimes jump to worst-case assumptions due to this barrier.
What is medical jargon?
Victoria’s fear of “being forgotten” and “not being ready to die” are examples of this type of grief, which occurs before an actual loss.
What is anticipatory grief?
This emotional hazard for nurses must be checked before entering difficult conversations.
What is compassion fatigue (or burnout)?
This training program strengthens skills in advance care planning, essential conversations, symptom management, and self-awareness.
What is the LEAP course?
Nursing care in this model emphasizes compassion, human dignity, and transpersonal connection as part of healing.
What is Watson’s Human Caring Theory?
Remaining present for patients experiencing fear, anger, grief, or confusion aligns with this BCCNM standard, which states nurses must not abandon clients.
What is the Duty to Provide Care?