Terminal care

Symptomatic treatment reduces and eliminates the symptoms of cancer.

• It must be complex.
• Pain relief has a dominant importance.

As the disease progresses, symptomatic treatment passes smoothly into terminal care, in which also includes nursing care and mental health care (in addition to symptomatic therapy).

• Ordinary inpatient departments are usually unable to provide this, which is why special asylum facilities are being set up, where a dignified dying is ensured – a hospice.
• Hospices are specialized programs that aim to provide care to the patient at a time when neither curative nor palliative therapy is possible.
• It allows you to live the rest of life with dignity, without unnecessary suffering.
• Hospices are either in separate buildings or operate in the form of home comprehensive hospice care (the patient is at home, but is cared for by a healthcare professional).

Links

External

• End-of-life decision-making from the nurse's point of view - interactive algorithm + test

Source

• BENEŠ, Jiří. Studijní materiály [online]. ©2012. [cit. 25. 4. 2012]. <http://jirben2.chytrak.cz/materialy/onko_JB.doc>.