Question

Describe briefly how to identify needs of the person, family or carers during the palliative approach to health care in terms of holistic assessment.(30-40 words)

Answer 1

The holistic assessment for palliative approach: the holisitic common assessment process offers an opportunity to explore the individuals wider needs and identify what action should be taken to meet them, ther is a strong focus throughout on supporting choice and decisionmaking and on helping people identify and achieve the outcomes they want for themselves wherever possible, the individual remains at the heart of the assessment, symptoms relief in palliative care is dependent on the nurse underrtaking a holisitic general and symptoms assessment and integrating these finding into a logical plan of care that can be evaluated against a set of goals and also establishment and maintenance of the therapeutic relationship can help the nurse to relieve distress, restore hope and enable the patient and family to achieve a good quality of life, careful attention to the fundamentals of nursing practice coupledwith effective communication will be shown to enhance the prospect of the patient their family and the nurse feeling valued and enriched by encounters associated with symptoms relief.