Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Exercise 10

According to the World Health Organization, palliative care is an approach that improves quality of life for patients and their families who face problems associated with life-threatening illnesses.From the list below, identify the specific goals of palliative care (select all that apply).
A) Regard dying as a normal process.
B) Minimize the financial burden on the family.
C) Provide relief from symptoms, including pain.
D) Affirm life and neither hasten nor postpone death.
E) Prolong the patient's life with aggressive new therapies.
F) Support holistic patient care and enhance quality of life.
G) Offer support to patients to live as actively as possible until death.
H) Assist the patient and family to identify and access pastoral care services.
I) Offer support to the family during the patient's illness and their own bereavement.