How can you provide dignity and respect to a patient?
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M7: Journal Reflections
Due No Due Date Points 60 Submitting a file upload
Assignment header
This assignment will be comprised of four Journal Reflections. You will complete the journal entries and submit your answers within this assignment. This assignment should be completed in ONE document, and your answers should be separated by Journal Reflection # headings (4-7). Please contact your instructor using Canvas Messages with any questions you may have.
Please read the article and respond to questions below. (Links to an external site.)
Journal Reflection #1-3
Discuss your thoughts about the article, who should pay the cost of care for preemies, and why. (150 words, 10 pts)
Should cost of care be considered in determining value of life-saving treatment for patients? (250 words, 10 pts)
Should an individual’s level of function be considered in determining life-saving treatment for patients? If so, who determines what “level of functioning” should be? (250 words, 10 pts)
Journal Reflection #4-5
Palliative care and hospice care provide dignified and supportive care during chronic illness and the dying process. Palliative care focuses specifically on providing supportive care for patients during chronic illness. This could include, but is not limited to, pain and symptom management, family support, art and music therapy, etc. It is ongoing comfort care for both patient and family in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Hospice care is more specifically targeted for end-of-life care, typically during the last six months of life. Hospice care is most often delivered at home, allowing the family to care for their loved one in the home until death. There are inpatient hospice facilities; however, patients typically residing in this type of facility have very little time remaining.
The goal for both palliative or supportive care services and hospice is to provide comfort and dignity during chronic illness and death. Not all patients who are a part of a palliative care program will be a part of a hospice program. With today’s rapidly advancing medical developments, many people live long lives with chronic illness. Hence, the true-shared purpose for both palliative care and hospice is supporting the patient and family. Medical professionals have the privilege of sharing the most difficult and vulnerable times with their patients. To do this well, a medical professional must seek to understand how to provide dignity and respect to every patient, every time.
How can you provide dignity and respect to a patient? (150 words, 10 pts)
What does it mean to die with dignity? (150 words, 10 pts)
Journal Reflection #6
When discussing death and dying issues personally or professionally, there is great potential for disaster. This is because everyone views death, dying, dignity, value, and life differently based on their worldview, culture, and presumptions about life. As a medical worker, you must be able to set your assumptions aside and seek to advocate for your patient’s preferences. In the inpatient setting, an ethics consult can be helpful during times of disagreements between medical staff, family members, or staff and family.
Ethics consultations should be initiated when an ethical problem exists in the care of a patient. Communication can be very difficult during these times; an ethics consult can help by bringing in an outside, third-party perspective about the situation. If a communication breakdown is not the issue, there can be a true ethical decision that needs made. Actual ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, or justice can be debated. For instance:
Should a patient unable to breath on her own or who has been “trached” and ventilator-dependent be allowed to die?
Should a patient have a feeding tube placed to sustain life when no signs of continued neurological development exist?
Should a patient be allowed to refuse chemotherapy and radiation, knowing the cancer will grow and end his life?
Should a pediatric patient be transplanted against his will?
We could discuss endless types of circumstances where ethical decisions can be difficult to make. Ethics consults can be helpful in bringing clarity to the issue at hand, protecting the patient, and providing all possible outcomes to the situation. It is not the role of an ethics consult to make a decision. Instead, their role is to help clarify the question, problem, and all possible outcomes. An ethics consult can summon one person, an expert in ethics, to help with the ethical dilemma or it can summon an ethics committee. Ethics committees are multidisciplinary groups, including physicians, nurses, social workers, psychiatrists, educators, lawyers, administrators, and other people who have undergone advanced ethics training and education. Anyone can ask for an ethics consult.
Protecting patient’s autonomy is a primary role for the nurse. How can initiating an ethics consult protect a patient’s autonomy? (150 words, 10 pts)
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Rubric
M7: Journal Reflections
M7: Journal Reflections
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeContent
15 to >12.0 pts
Distinguished
Prompts are addressed correctly, accurately, and appropriately (in sufficient detail)
12 to >9.0 pts
Proficient
Prompts are addressed correctly and accurately; lack of detail present at times
9 to >6.0 pts
Developing
Uneven in the answer accuracy and level of detail
6 to >3.0 pts
Minimal
Significant problems with providing sufficient content and/or answering accurately
3 to >0 pts
Absent
Content is inaccurate or greatly lacking in detail
15 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeEvidence
10 to >8.0 pts
Distinguished
Relevant and important information from the module systematically utilized and integrated; evidence clearly supports points
8 to >6.0 pts
Proficient
Evidence is provided, including support for all major points, although priority is not given to the most important ideas / terms
6 to >4.0 pts
Developing
Uneven in how often the evidence from the module supports statements
4 to >2.0 pts
Minimal
Limited use of evidence from the module for positions, or poor sources selected
2 to >0 pts
Absent
Fails to provide evidence for positions from the module
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeWriting
10 to >8.0 pts
Distinguished
Highly attuned to appropriate language, level of formality, and appropriate tone of writing Few to no grammar or language problems
8 to >6.0 pts
Proficient
Engaging tone with appropriate level of formality and audience awareness Some minor errors but they do not occur throughout the paper
6 to >4.0 pts
Developing
Uneven tone, level of formality and/or audience awareness; or, minor errors throughout the paper; or, some major APA or writing concerns at times
4 to >2.0 pts
Minimal
Either: inappropriate tone or level of formality, frequent major grammar/language/APA errors throughout the paper
2 to >0 pts
Absent
Lacks awareness of audience, appropriate tone and level of formality; Major errors in conventional use of grammar / language that interfere with paper readability
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeEvaluation
10 to >8.0 pts
Distinguished
High quality evaluation; thoughts are carefully considered and carefully explained
8 to >6.0 pts
Proficient
Acceptable quality evaluation; thoughts are fairly well-considered and explained
6 to >4.0 pts
Developing
Evaluation is attempted; some articulation of writer’s thoughts but lacking sufficient detail
4 to >2.0 pts
Minimal
Minimal evaluation present; surface level evaluation with minimal detail
2 to >0 pts
Absent
Evaluation is absent
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFollows Prompt
15 to >12.0 pts
Distinguished
Fully addresses all questions in the prompt
12 to >9.0 pts
Proficient
Addresses nearly all aspects of the prompt
9 to >6.0 pts
Developing
Unevenly addresses prompt
6 to >3.0 pts
Minimal
Significant problems with addressing prompt
3 to >0 pts
Absent
Prompt is not addressed
15 pts
Total Points: 60
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