Nurse Roles and Preparation
Nurses use this approach to better understand patients and families understanding, values, wants, and beliefs around death and dying.
What is a non-judgmental approach?
This approach focuses on prioritizing patient comfort while remaining present and supportive to both the patient and the family.
What is patient and family-centered care?
This BCCNM standard guides nurses to collaborate and coordinate care with other health care professionals according to the patients needs.
What is Client-focused provision of service?
This assessment requires a detailed investigation of the patient’s physical, emotional, and functional suffering.
What is an in-depth pain assessment?
Family may express fear, grief, anger, or uncertainty during the meeting. The nurse should respond using this supportive approach.
What is non-judgmental communication and/or validation?
This BCCNM standard requires nurses to provide safe and competent care despite any personal judgments related to the situation.
What is the duty to provide care?
Ensuring Victoria’s dignity, ensuring informed decision-making, and supporting autonomy are part of this nursing obligation.
What is the nurse’s duty to advocate?
This communication technique allows space for emotion, reflection, and processing during difficult conversations.
What is therapeutic silence?
This tool helps healthcare providers assess functional decline and care planning.
What is the Palliative Performance Scale
This important action ensures patients’ needs are met by bringing together the palliative care team, MAiD clinicians, and appropriate healthcare providers.
What is promptly involving the interdisciplinary team?
If Victoria asks, “What will happen if I stop eating and drinking?” the nurse should provide education about this type of care plan.
What is comfort-focused symptom management?
Refusal or withdrawal of treatment differs ethically and legally from this end-of-life option, which requires a separate assessment process in Canada.
What is MAiD?
This skill involves understanding how symptoms develop and how to control them effectively.
What is an extensive knowledge of symptom etiology and management?
Families may mistakenly think that refusing food, fluids, or withdrawal of treatments can cause this outcome for the patient.
What is starvation or accelerated death due to food/drink refusal?
These services help families cope with grief and provide emotional support during and after end-of-life care.
What is bereavement/family support?