Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Corso di laurea in infermieristica - Sede di Modena
| Thesis Title | Family conference in palliative care: nurse's role. |
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| Name | Ferri Vittoria |
| Supervisor(s) | Laffi Patrizia, Vacondio Paolo |
| Academic Year | 2018/19 |
| Thesis type | Non research thesis |
Abstract
This report will analyze the nurse role in palliative care, a medical environment that nowadays, in Italy, results as not well established as hoped. Nevertheless, nurses play an essential role in assisting terminally ill people. Palliative treatments are defined by the WHO (2002) as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. From this definition, it is undeniable that nurse plays a fundamental roll since he/she spends most of patient’s time and that mainly find him/herself again to deal with patient’s physical, psychological and spiritual problems. Furthermore, this definition involves the patient’s family in the treatment process and because of this the report will talk about the family conference. The family conference concept refers to the encounter between the patient, his/her relatives and the medical team with the intent to share the therapeutic approach and to agree upon treatment purposes during a palliative care situation. A bibliographic research has been made together with a literature review. From this research it came out that there’s a lack of bibliography and protocols regarding the “family conference” topic, even though the few studies conducted have considered this tool as extremely effective. What now becomes necessary is having more and in-depth studies so that this tool could be better known and used by palliative care professional.