During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is impossible to have end-of-life person-centric treatment at home and in care homes. Visors and facemasks users find it challenging to read or hear soft vocal sounds and crucial instruments for empathic communication. The pandemic has put a tremendous burden on the resources of treatment. In connection with the change of operations, the excerpt describes the end–of–life caring regarding the COVID-19 victims, which falls under the community based on district nursing teams.
District nursing teams adapted to the pandemic with tremendous versatility, ingenuity, and pragmatism, prioritizing end-of-life treatment and quickly extending their workload to satisfy home-care demand. While practical guidance and advice are not missing, providing palliative care in the community during pandemics is driven by minimal research data (Wynne et al., 2020). General practitioners and palliative care professionals can proceed to mostly remote appointments. Any primary health care worker or general practitioner visits a home on camera to allow collaborative evaluations (Hancock et al., 2019). To promote patient and expert nursing examinations, including face-to-face professional assessment where appropriate, comprehensive local programs should be implemented throughout the pandemic.
The number of people who die at home has risen dramatically over a couple of months. Medicines should now be digitally administered, and directions sent electronically can assist the district nursing teams (Cavallo et al., 2020). As the teams await the creation of new treatments to avoid viral infections, all dying patients must continue to receive specialist treatments. Consequently, the medical squad must be flexible, creative, and open to new approaches and realistic models to adapt to the challenge.
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Hancock, S., Preston, N., Jones, H., & Gadoud, A. (2019). Telehealth in palliative care is being described but not evaluated: A systematic review. BMC Palliative Care, 18(1), 114. Web.
Wynne, K. J., Petrova, M., & Coghlan, R. (2020). Dying individuals and suffering populations: Applying a population-level bioethics lens to palliative care in humanitarian contexts: Before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Medical Ethics, 46(8), 514−525. Web.