Palliative Care Booklet for Critical Care Nurses

Palliative care is part of everyday practice for health care professionals. Moreover Palliative care provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms; affirms life and regards dying as a normal process; and intends neither to hasten nor postpone death. Also palliative care integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care; offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death; and offers a support system to help the family cope during the patient's illness and in their own bereavement. Therefore critical care nurses must be trained to provide expert and advanced care in critical care units.