Each answer you write should have a literature connection and amount to about 100 words. In your answers, you should link two optional care science concepts to palliative care.
QUsttion 1:
From personal experience, nurses have asked patients if they can pray for them regardless of which religion they belong to. The patients went through an existential crisis and had enormous death anxiety. What I experience is that the nurses tried to calm and give the patients extra compassion and support through their personal faith. But:
Is it professional and okay for a nurse to mention her own personal beliefs without the encouragement of a patient, during a meeting with a palliative patient who has death anxiety and is going through an existential crisis?
Qustion 2:
IAHPC ‘s proposed definition differs from the WHO’s definition when it comes to palliative care and what it should focus on / mean. IAHPC focuses on the severe suffering of a person with a serious illness while the WHO focuses on the diagnosis of life-threatening illness. Who really decides what is suffering? The person himself who is ill or those who are carers / relatives / viewers?
