Palliative Care Heart Failure Nurses
Palliative Care Heart Failure Nurses provide supportive and
palliative care services to patients with advanced heart
failure.
Palliative care means improving the quality of
life of patients facing the problems associated with advanced
illness, and their families and preventing and relieving
suffering.
This is done by quickly identifying, assessing
and treating pain and other problems, whether physical,
psychosocial or spiritual, and the organisation of appropriate
clinical and social support services.
A carer’s testimony…
“I can't begin to express to the difference my
husband's BHF Heart Failure Nurse made to our lives in the last
year. I think without her we probably would not have coped and we
would not have had the quality of life we did achieve, very poorly
though he was at the end. She gave us huge support and comfort all
the way through and her visits to us were always a joy. My husband
was so fond of her and it all gave me great confidence. She was
always so approachable and contactable.
“When the time came to introduce the
palliative care team, our BHF Nurse did it with great sensitivity -
without her and the lovely community nurses, I am sure my husband
would have needed a hospital bed or residential care. That we
achieved his remaining at home is a great comfort to me at the
moment as I go through the dark tunnel of bereavement.”
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