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This 9 page paper discusses the way in which hope sustains even patients who are terminally ill. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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of such care is to make the person as comfortable as possible during the dying process. This paper discusses the role of hope in palliative care. Discussion Many sources reveal
that even patients who are desperately ill have hope. Hope is sometimes part of the patients personality, and sometimes it is a result of a nurses care and concern. A
study by Buckley and Herth found that hope was a constant, and remained present "regardless of nearness to death" (2004, p. 33). They found seven traits or attitudes that fostered
hope, and three that hindered it; the first were "interpersonal connectedness, attainable aims, spiritual base, personal attributes, light-heartedness, uplifting memories and affirmation of worth" (Buckley & Herth, 2004, p. 33).
The categories that work against it are "abandonment and isolation, uncontrollable pain and discomfort, and devaluation of personhood" (Buckley & Herth, 2004, p. 33). While it is sometimes impossible to
do anything about people who feel they have been abandoned, clearly the nurse has a responsibility to the patient to treat them as an individual human being, not a collection
of symptoms. A Swedish study notes that there is a relationship between hope, hopelessness and fatigue; this is of concern because people who are fatigued often have trouble dealing successfully
with their illness. In this article Benzein and Berg note that "Hope, hopelessness and fatigue are important experiences for patients and family members in palliative care" (2005, p. 234). A
study of 85 patients was done in which they were asked to rate their level of fatigue; it was discovered that the "level of hope proved to be significantly lower
among the family members than among the patients" (Benzein & Berg, 2005, p. 234). For the families, there were correlations between "hope and age ... fatigue and hope ... hopelessness
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