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- Title
Patient Safety in Palliative Care at the End of Life from the Perspective of Complex Thinking.
- Authors
Bittencourt, Nair Caroline Cavalcanti de Mendonça; Duarte, Sabrina da Costa Machado; Marcon, Sonia Silva; Chagas, Marléa Crescêncio; Telles, Audrei Castro; Sá, Eunice Maria Casimiro dos Santos; Silva, Marcelle Miranda da
- Abstract
Actions for patient safety at the end of life must be aligned with the principles of palliative care, such as promoting comfort and quality of life. Faced with this complex process, health professionals need to seek the central relationships of the concepts of safety and palliative care to the end of life, in line with the wishes and expectations of the person and family members/caregivers, as well as with available resources and the capacity of services but, above all, reinforcing the importance of a non-reductionist care approach, which encompasses the various aspects inherent to humans. Hence, we present a new vision of patient safety in palliative care at the end of life based on the complex thinking of Edgar Morin, scientific evidence, and health policies in the global context. We discuss the deficiencies and disjunctions in thought and practice of palliative care at the end of life and patient safety, as well as the challenges for the conjunction of these complex themes, to finally present potential ways to apply complex thinking in the safe care of the patient at the end of life. The problematization of different aspects for the interposition of knowledge about patient safety in palliative care at the end of life portrays the existence of intersubjective connections and the multidimensionality that permeate the guidelines, actions and relationships that sustain the disciplines.
- Subjects
NURSING; HUMAN comfort; CRITICAL thinking; HEALTH literacy; PATIENT safety; PALLIATIVE treatment; HEALTH promotion
- Publication
Healthcare (2227-9032), 2023, Vol 11, Issue 14, p2030
- ISSN
2227-9032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/healthcare11142030