Ethics and Pain Alleviation in Palliative Care

As a hospice nurse, you are involved with pain control on a regular basis. Many of the medications prescribed for the management of pain also depress respirations. Determine a protocol for the use of these medications, keeping in mind that the purpose of hospice is to promote comfort. Support your decisions with ethical theories and principles.

PICOT: Effectiveness of teaching caregivers about palliative care VS informing patients about palliative care services
he chief executive officer (CEO) of Silver Creek Hospital (SCH), Natasha Beranger, wants to ensure that all of her staff members know the importance of ethics. She has asked you, a member of SCH’s ethics committee, to describe and define ethics. Additionally, Ms. Beranger wants you to define and discuss 1 of the principles of ethics (e.g., autonomy, justice, nonmaleficence, beneficence) and describe a situation in a health care setting that will challenge that principle.
Pain alleviation during labor and delivery
Can a Continuous Service Readiness program focused on patient pain assessment/reassessment increase a hospital’s HCAHPS pain scores and ensure that nurses assess and reassess their patients’ pain?
Steroids are often given for severe inflammatory pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis. For acute surgical pain, however, these drugs are rarely used, even though inflammation is probably the major cause of postoperative pain. Explain the rationale for the contrasting approaches and include references
Orem’s Theory & Palliative Care – Orem’s Self-Care
Evidenced-based journal on End of life care (palliative and hospice care)
Nursing Continuous Service Readiness program focused on patient pain assessment/reassessment increase a hospital’s HCAHPS pain scores
A quantitative study about pain might examine patient’s experiences and feelings about pain
The use of data on pain assessment before and after given pain medication

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