- Palliative care explained
- What are the five stages of palliative care?
- At what stage does palliative care start?
- Palliative care at the Nursing Guild
Palliative care explained
What are the five stages of palliative care?
- Creating a bespoke care plan
- Giving emotional, spiritual and psychological support
- Enacting the care plan
- Transitioning to end of life care
- Supporting family and loved ones
Stage 1: Creating a bespoke care plan
- The expected progression of the illness
- An ongoing treatment plan
- Any medicines required for symptom relief, along with dosage and methods of administration
- The location where palliative care will be provided, e.g. at home or in a hospice
Making decisions for your loved one
- Resuscitation
- Being admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and ventilated
- Being admitted to hospital and given powerful intravenous antibiotics
- Oral antibiotics to treat a chest infection
Stage 2: Giving emotional, spiritual and psychological support
Stage 3: Enacting the care plan
- Pain
- Coughing
- Wakefulness
- Breathlessness
- Fatigue
- England – up to £30,000
- Wales – up to £36,000
- Northern Ireland – up to £25,000
Stage 4: Transitioning to end of life care
Stage 5: Supporting family and loved ones
At what stage does palliative care start?
Palliative care at the Nursing Guild
- Assessing care needs
- Supporting rapid discharge from hospital or hospice, enabling loved ones to be cared for safely at home
- Reviewing the home to meet changing needs
- Supporting complex care, no matter what those needs are
- Liaising with other healthcare professionals to ensure continued holistic support
- Managing breakthrough pain and any flare-ups to keep clients as comfortable as possible
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