Medical Care and Spiritual Care in the Practice of Hospice Care / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Due to the complicated symptoms and predictable death, patients with advanced cancer are the main group of the hospice care service. With the pain and need of physical, psychological, mental and social when death approaching, individualized strategies should be developed according to each patient's condition, to help to alleviate their pains, provide spiritual care and improve the quality of life effectively. Through the analysis of the clinical practice of hospice care for a breast cancer patient, this article summarized the nursing experience in order to provide reference for the localized hospice care.