Palyatif Bakım Hastalarına Bakım Veren Sağlık Çalışanlarının Yaşadığı Sorunlar ve Çözüm Önerileri

Year 2023, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 81 - 88, 28.02.2023

Tuğba Menekli

https://doi.org/10.57224/jhpr.1073872

Abstract

Palyatif bakım hizmeti multidisipliner yaklaşım gerektiren, birçok daldan sağlık çalışanının dahil olduğu bir takım çalışmasıdır. Deneyimli ve eğitimli sağlık personeli ve gönüllülerden oluşan bir ekip tarafından hizmet sunulur Palyatif bakım uygulamasında yaşanan problemleri; politika, eğitim, ilaç ulaşılabilirliği ve uygulamaya yönelik engeller olarak sıralanmaktadır. Sağlık çalışanları hem karşılaştıkları güçlükler yüzünden hem de güçlüklerle mücadele etme sürecinde ölüm kaygısı, stres ve tükenmişlik, iş doyumunda azalma, etik sorunlar, merhamet yorgunluğu yaşamaktadırlar. Çalışanların eğitilmişlikleri, donanımları, çalıştıkları branşla ilgili beklentileri ve düşünceleri verdikleri hizmetin kalitesini direkt olarak etkilemektedir. Çalışanların yeterliliklerinin sağlanması, eğitimlerinin standardizasyonu; Palyatif bakım uygulamalarına hakimlikleri açısından önemlidir. Palyatif bakım ünitelerinin kalitesinin arttırılması, ulaşılacak hasta sayısının yükseltilmesi, sağlık sisteminde daha aktif rol alması bu şekilde sağlanabilecektir.

Keywords

Palyatif bakım, problem çözme, sağlık çalışanı

Problems Experienced By Healthcare Professionals Caring For Palliatıve Care Patients and Solution Suggestions

Abstract

Palliative care service is a team effort that requires a multidisciplinary approach and includes health professionals from many branches. Service is provided by a team of experienced and trained health personnel and volunteers. Problems experienced in palliative care practice; policy, education, drug availability, and barriers to practice. Health workers experience death anxiety, stress and burnout, decrease in job satisfaction, ethical problems, compassion fatigue, both because of the difficulties they face and in the process of struggling with them. The training, equipment, expectations and thoughts of the employees directly affect the quality of the service they provide. Ensuring the qualifications of employees, standardization of their training; It is important for their mastery of palliative care practices. In this way, it will be possible to increase the quality of palliative care units, increase the number of patients to be reached, and take a more active role in the health system.

Keywords

Health Personnel, Palliative care, Problem solving

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