How do you think caring for a terminally ill patient will impact on you?

How do you think caring for a terminally ill client will impact on you?





Psychologically? will it change our feelings about death? WIll you be sad or dipressed? anyother potential feelings???How do you think caring for a terminally ill patient will impact on you?
As a healthcare provider who has done this for a longtime....it depends on so many individual things. Is it a relative in the home....is it your job or profession.....how much background and knowledge do you have on the process of dying and how to best care for this patient....what is your past experience.....


The best recommendation I can make if you are considering this situation is to get as much information and training in hospice are as you can. Not only for your own well-being, but for the most important person in this scenario: the person dying. It can't help to impact you....but like everything else in life.....it will be what you choose it to be.How do you think caring for a terminally ill patient will impact on you?
I've been taking care of terminally ill patients for ten years. There is no easy way to do it. What does help is to know that you're going to make their final days fillrd with dignity, and respect. If they hadn't had family, I would hold their hand, in their final moments, why so because noone should die alone. It's not a job for everyone, but I think it makes you respect living, as well as death.
It is one of the most selfless acts on this earth, and I admire anyone willing to go through it.





I did.





Its stressful and changes your entire outlook on everything that you do.





I witnessed the most profound love from people. It brought out a realism that heightened everyones' consciousness, to the point that it was almost like a glow that surrounded all of us.





Its not something that someone should have to endure, but because its a fact of life, everyone will face this one time or another. Its inevitable.