COPD

COPD

Critical Care Nursing

Introduction

Due to the rise in the mortality rates as a result of terminal illnesses and life limiting diseases such as cancer, AIDS etc, there is a need for research about the views and opinions of end of life care among specialist palliative care nurses in order to improve palliative care. Cancer is the leading cause of death around the world. The WHO estimates that 84 million people will die of cancer between 2005 and 2015 without intervention. In 2007, there were 7.9 million deaths. The research study at hand presents a detailed review of the exploration regarding the experiences of critical care nursing in context of rendering services to the patients at the final stage of their illness. The report further facilitates the reader to have a clear idea and an in-depth insight to the functions, performances and experiences obtained by the nurses in their entire professional lives. A proper research, beneficial to the study, is carried out and illustrated in a legible manner. The field of critical care nursing has now been one of the oldest in the aspect of medicines and clinical practices. It refers to giving a proper focus and extreme care and attention to the patients with unstable health and critically ill condition. The nurses involved in the occupation of critical care can be seen providing services to the nation in various types of environment and specialties, which include, for instance, intensive care units of hospitals and emergency departments.

Contemporary Nurses and Nursing

The nurse can manage and coordinate the nursing tasks by department health nurses and in the delegate's absence. The nurse let their actions control of long-term goals or plans, based on their experience and intuition which means that one can focus directly on the current problem. Nurses can develop department standards, instructions and procedures. The certified nurse can engage in interdisciplinary collaboration and interdisciplinary problem solving (Green 1996, pp. 231-246). The nurse can abstract from the usual problem-solving methods and be able to describe the latest methods. They have the ability to see “what is possible” and can describe clinical episodes in which the expert's efforts can make a difference. Is aware of its nursing and personal identity consciously and have completed certified training of at least diploma level (Coyne 2010, pp. 36-59). Also, Participation in clinical quality and research to the extent that tasks are part of a known competent practice. It is also important to have completed the introduction course on GCP and clinical drug research for nurses. The nurse perceives situations as a whole and sees the situation, meaning in the context of long-term goals. The nurse can analyze and discuss clinical problems. The nurse engages in leadership and coordination of nursing tasks in cooperation with the sister and the delegate. The nurse can help to develop the department's standards, instructions and procedures through evidence-based knowledge (Patronis 1996, pp. 101-123). The nurse can make with its mono professionalism in interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue contribute to interdisciplinary problem ...