Nursing

Personal Essay

Personal Essay

Introduction

As a medical practitioneer and a nurse, I had an experience of clinical placement with a dying patient at the Hospice. The aim of the experience was to reduce the suffering of the patient through extraordinary care and sensitive measures. Few studies show that providing extra care to the individuals through individual attention provided to the patient would reduce the anxiety of the patient. It may also reduce the worries of the patient for a fair while, and that is the motive of such care and attention.

Besides learning about how the patient reacts to my attention and care, the other main purpose of the experience were to learn from real expenses that would help me gain knowledge, so I can teach post registration, and postgraduate palliative care. The experience will help understand the affects of such treatment on patients. Since the patient is nearing death, it is more likely that the relatives of the patient may not like such treatment. For them, medical treatment that is dealing with the patient's problem is more significant than any emotional attachment or care to the patient (Amoah, 2011).

The fundamental idea behind such practice is ease the suffering, and reflective practice. My experience and analysis say that the hospice is ideal under threat with the medical gaze on symptom management under the rubric of specialized palliative care, and the inadequacy of this approach to respond to suffering. Hospice may become a special treatment in the future. Hence the main aim of my study and experience was to learn about the effectiveness of such treatment on patients.

Experience

My experience with The Patient gave me a chance to learn and experience what I was trying to learn. The Patient was nearing death, and she needed meticulous care, and attention. I had ...