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End of Life: Principles of Care and Support for the Adult Dying Patient
Section 1: Identify dying
Section 2: Plan of care for the last days of life
Section 3: Support carers
Section 4: Care after death
Learning Objectives:
- Recognise the signs which indicate the start of the dying phase
- Describe how to maximise comfort for the dying person, including the patient's family and carers
- Outline what key actions are required to meet the needs of the patient and their family/carers
- Detail who to contact for support in recognising dying and meeting the patient's and their family/carer needs
- Recognise the potential impact of caring for the dying on yourself and your colleagues
Resource details
| Contributed by: | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust |
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| Licence: | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International More information on licences |
| Last updated: | 24 October 2023 |
| First contributed: | 19 July 2023 |
| Audience access level: | Full user |
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