Week 3 Journal Entry
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Week 3 Journal Entry
What are your upcoming week’s specific learning goals and objectives?
My upcoming week’s specific learning goals and objectives will include working toward identifying the end of life care in hospice patients. I will learn about the end of life care and how it serves hospice patients. What services are covered at the end of life care? How does end of life care improve patients’ quality of life?
What is your upcoming week’s detailed schedule at your community practice experience placement?
During the week, I will be visiting at least three patients in hospice care. I will interact with them and learn to get acquainted with their needs.
Were there any placement items/issues that occurred this week that you feel your instructor should be aware of that are private and are more appropriately shared here than in the discussion board with your classmates?
Up to this point, there has not been any element or issue with the placement that happened this week that the instructor should be aware of. All things have gone as planned, and I am hopeful that they will continue to do so for the remaining sessions.
Give a brief description of an objective you worked on this week. Make sure to cite at least one reference showing how your objective relates to the public health knowledge you’ve studied during this course or the public health course.
This week, I was assigned to work with end-of-life care in hospice patients. The main objective was to identify when the end of life care is inevitable. In the busy daily nursing practice, end-of-life care is sometimes overlooked. I have recognized that as a nurse, I must accept that, regardless of intensive treatment, dying is inevitable in several illnesses (Wilmont, 2015). The best end-of-life care starts with an open conversation about illness development and prognosis. Hospice patients may gain alleviation of pain and other undesirable problems when nurses integrate their care with their families and palliative care, resulting in a decent quality of life throughout their last days (Nusrat, 2016).
Reference
Nusrat, S. (2016). Hospice Care–helping cope with the inevitable. Supportive Care in Cancer, 22(1), 145-152.
Wilmont, S. S. (2015). End-of-life care in critical condition. American journal of public health, 105(1), 58-61.