The Clinical Effect of Palliative Treatment on Patients With Terminal Cancer

Doctors carried out health education for patients to avoid patients giving up their lives, encouraged them to actively cooperate with medical staff, and instructed patients on how to face the disease with a brave and strong attitude and actively fight the disease. Nurses conducted daily psychological counselling for patients, learnt their inner thoughts through communication with patients, and provided timely comfort and encouragement. An attention-shifting method can be used to alleviate the patient's attention to the disease, effectively improving internal depression and avoiding depression. For patients with anxiety and loneliness, family members were instructed to accompany and care.

Reasonable control of indoor temperature and humidity is necessary to ensure that warm, light conditions permit properly dressed patients to feel warm. Nurses need to ensure that patients are kept clean and tidy in personal hygiene. They would regularly assist patients in turning over while giving patients sufficient respect.

Clinicians should regularly evaluate the patient's physical pain and give reasonable analgesic drugs to patients. Nurses should closely observe the medication response of patients. At the same time, it is necessary to observe and record patients' physical pain daily and take effective pain control measures.

The clinical nutritionist formulated appropriate nutritional diets according to the nutritional status and personal preferences of patients, provided nutritional support for patients, and followed up with patients once a week after discharge to improve their nutritional status.

"Two nurses with psychological counselling qualifications in the team used the anxiety and depression scale to evaluate the psychological and emotional status of patients and referred to The Questionnaire Survey on Awareness of Palliative Care by the Department of Elderly Section of the union medical college hospital. The content mainly included the patient's medical history and general situation, the needs and awareness of patients and their families for palliative care, the choice of patients and their families for the final treatment plan, and the needs of families for grief counselling. Timely professional counselling and intervention were undertaken to alleviate the patient's adverse emotions."

The control group was given routine nursing intervention, strictly in accordance with a routine treatment process, monitoring the vital signs of patients, giving basic nursing, health education, diet guidance and so on.