PALLIATIVE CARE

Palliative Care

Palliative Care

Literature Review

Sister M. Simone Roach was conveyed up in a large, Roman Catholic family in a coal excavation locality of Cape Breton, NS, Canada. After high school she completed a nursing diploma program at St. Joseph's School of Nursing, Glace Bay, NS. Following a year of nursing practice, she went into the Sisters of St. Martha, Antigonish, NS, assisting in a kind of clinical areas and teaching in Schools of Nursing. She completed a nursing undergraduate degree at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish and graduate study at University of Toronto, Boston University, and the church member University of America. There she completed a Doctoral program with a major in Philosophical bases of learning in 1970. She chased two years of post-doctoral work, one year at Harvard Divinity School (Ethics), and one year as Reader at Regis College, Toronto, during which time she accomplished the second modified version of her book on Caring. While nurturing was habitually centered as the centre of nursing in her teaching, Sister Roach did not start formal study of nurturing until 1970 when she was Chair of the Department of Nursing, St. Francis Xavier University.

In her initial study, Sister Roach was answering to the inquiry, “What is a doctor doing when he or she is caring?” Because the list became too specific and unmanageable, data were identified within five categories that became known as the “Five C's” (later “Six C's”) - Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment (added later.) Reflections on these C's can be found in all her writings.

While the Six C's as attributes of caring have an significant functional submission, this facet of Sister Roach's study did not completely address a more basic ontological inquiry, “What is nurturing, in itself?”Reflection on this inquiry led to the insight, “caring is the human mode of being.” We care, not because we are doctors, physicians, communal employees, parents, etc; we care because we are human beings. We disagree in how we care, not in that we vehiclee. Caring is not exclusive to nursing or even to the nurturing occupations; it is a prime attribute of being human. Further reflections in nurturing from the Heart, noted overhead, examined the convergence of nurturing and spirituality. Sister Roach's study, motivated by The cosmos article (Swimme, Berry, 1992) and other writings, chased the more universal call of care as a “child of the universe.” This is an stimulating, ever-expanding development moved by rapid expansion in research and expertise.

Sister Roach has addressed internationally, with productions in Australia, Bangkok, Finland, Cambridge (England), Russia, Sterling (Scotland), Canada and the US. She shares her work with the anticipation that it will be helpful to scholars educators and practitioners alike, and that submission will extend to be made at all grades of wellbeing care. (M.S. Roach, 2007)

The World Health Organization (WHO) first defined the term palliative care in 1989. The most recent definition of palliative care to appear from the WHO, published in 2002, states that palliative care is an approach ...