Reply to this discussion post This was

Reply to this discussion post This was a personable subject to research about. Before I was in the healthcare field, my grandpa went through colon cancer, and we spent months in the hospital. I remember the members of the healthcare team having the conversation of hospice with my family. My mom is a nurse, so she knew where they were coming from, but the differential factor was that the patient was her dad. It really does make a difference when your loved one is the patient. If I were a part of the health care team, I would be torn. Because the power of attorney refused to participate in decisions, the next family member is the one who makes decisions. I would feel bad for the patient. No one should have to be kept alive if there is no treatment option to cure their condition. I would feel some frustration toward the family, not in a bad way but just because they don’t understand the things us healthcare workers have been through and seen. Like Angeline Dewey stated, patients and their families “cannot even begin to have the perspective we have acquired in dealing with the complex scenarios that confront us almost every day”. And I think that’s the contributing factor to why end of life care is such a sensitive subject. Dewey recommends ethics committees for times like these. They consist of nurses collaborating with physicians for ethic consults. When an ethics consult is performed, an interprofessional conference call is performed and a consensus is resulted within 24 hours. The AMA’s Code of Medical Ethics Opinion 10.7 has all information about ethical committees. Their sole purpose is to help in addressing ethical issues that arise in patient care and will facilitate the decision making that respects all participants’ values, concerns, and interests.

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