Palliative care Nursing

Modern medicine can alleviate many of symptoms people with cancer suffer, but all too often it can't reverse the disease process. However, the relief of these symptoms requires close clinical assessment in order to prescribe the right treatment. Palliative care is aimed at minimizing such symptoms, often for significant periods of time. However, even with the best palliative and supportive care, patients often suffer from loss of control which means being too weak to get up by himself/herself, to feed himself/herself, to go to the bathroom himself/herself, to bath himself/herself, or do much other than wait for the end [1].