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Narrative Palliative Care: A Method for Building Empathy
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Palliative care can be provided in acute care settings, hospice, patient’s own home, ambulatory clinics etc and aims to provide dignity, respect and humble care to the sick with objective of managing pain, understanding their needs, emotions, requiring careful understanding and observation skills. Patient’s needs are acknowledged and utmost holistic care is provided with optimistic attitude and hope. Active listening is an important skill as it enables to understand what the person is saying and to comprehend about their feelings through empathy. Patients develop selfawareness and selfconfidence by externalizing their feelings, thoughts and emotions, thereby leading to decrease in their emotional discomfort and suffering. This review article describes about palliative medicine, narrative palliative medicine, empathic process and compassion in brief.
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Palliative care can be provided in acute care settings, hospice, patient’s own home, ambulatory clinics etc and aims to provide dignity, respect and humble care to the sick with objective of managing pain, understanding their needs, emotions, requiring careful understanding and observation skills. Patient’s needs are acknowledged and utmost holistic care is provided with optimistic attitude and hope. Active listening is an important skill as it enables to understand what the person is saying and to comprehend about their feelings through empathy. Patients develop selfawareness and selfconfidence by externalizing their feelings, thoughts and emotions, thereby leading to decrease in their emotional discomfort and suffering. This review article describes about palliative medicine, narrative palliative medicine, empathic process and compassion in brief.
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This page is a summary of: Effect of Oral Clonidine Premedication on Perioperative Haemodynamic Response and Postoperative Sedation for Patients undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy, Indian Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia, January 2018, Red Flower Publication Private, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.21088/ijaa.2349.8471.51218.23.
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