Narrative Palliative Care: A Method for Building Empathy
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Anesthesia and Analgesia - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 12
Abstract
Palliative care can be provided in acute care settings, hospice, patient’s own home, ambulatory clinics etc and aims to provide dignity, respect and humble care to the sick with objective of managing pain, understanding their needs, emotions, requiring careful understanding and observation skills. Patient’s needs are acknowledged and utmost holistic care is provided with optimistic attitude and hope. Active listening is an important skill as it enables to understand what the person is saying and to comprehend about their feelings through empathy. Patients develop selfawareness and selfconfidence by externalizing their feelings, thoughts and emotions, thereby leading to decrease in their emotional discomfort and suffering. This review article describes about palliative medicine, narrative palliative medicine, empathic process and compassion in brief.
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Lalit Gupta
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- DOI 10.21088/ijaa.2349.8471.51218.23
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