Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hupcey, Judith E.
• Kitko, Lisa
• Alonso, Windy

Titel

Palliative Care in Heart Failure

Ist Teil von

• Critical care nursing clinics of North America, 2015-12, Vol.27 (4), p.577-587

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The number of patients with heart failure is growing; the associated morbidity and mortality remains dismal. Advance care planning, end-of-life conversations, and palliative care referrals are appropriate, but do not occur regularly. Palliative care focuses on patients and families from diagnosis, to hospice, death, and bereavement. It is delivered as basic palliative care by all providers and by specialty-certified palliative care specialists. Nurses are well-positioned to provide basic. Nurses are also instrumental in initiating referrals to the specialized palliative care team as the patient’s needs become too complex or the disease progresses and the patient approaches the end of life.