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An Ethical Approach To Hospice Care Companionship

Posted on:2012-09-30Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:W W LongFull Text:PDF
GTID:1485303356469704Subject:Ethics
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The researcher laid out the dying phenomenon through his experience of interactions with patients with rare diseases in hospice wards. After clarifying the role of the interacting companions, it has been found that the presence of companions is related to the Chinese culture, but does not necessarily involve the dignity of death. In addition to professional health care, hospice service also involves the companions'basic human concept, which has a significant influence in dying fields. Hospice care has gradually gained recognition from the dying and their families in today's hospice team system. Therefore, clinical situation-based ethics has been adopted to explore its development context.In this study, the phenomenological contrast between life modalities was presented through dying patients admitted to hospice wards, presenting the problem of life and exploration of the dying patients'anxiety and fear. Attempts have also been made to clarify doubts and ease confusion related to the development context of the companions' services constructed by the hospice medical team. Through the phenomenological theories, it has been shown that the service process of medical technology attaches importance to innovation and effective medical culture, but overlooks the human needs underneath the cultural heritage. Under the impact of the hospice service-based clinical ethics hospice wards that promote situational care are indeed routes for valuable reflections and provide volunteer service companions sites and routes that deepen learning.Based on the interactive relationships among the companions, the ethics-related issues have been launched from the practical aspects of dying companionship. The "presence" and "absence" of companions have presented pluralistic significances in the field of clinical phenomena, in which the principles of secular ethics and the rigid doctrine of "I" have been adopted in patient treatment. It has often been found that the companions that are seemingly in harmony but actually at variance have been "absent" while they have been confronted with the tragic "faces" of "others." It cannot be avoided at the bedside that "I" must face the consequences, thus a need to become the source of specific ethics. The experience of the grace of student-teacher relationships has inspired another type of situational care ethics in patient interactions. Therefore, hospice wards must adopt situational care as the main claim in order to establish relationship layouts and interactions and guide the dying through letting go and acceptance. The companionship filled with love allows spiritual growth through communication and trust, which coexist to help the dying through the last stage of life.
Keywords/Search Tags:Companionship
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