In some, the living will is in effect only if the patient is terminally ill and death is imminent.5 This can limit its practicality. ... Morphine given to relieve a terminally ill patient's pain may suppress respirations and bring about death. As long as relief of pain, not the death of the patient, was the goal, providing adequate pain control for patients with terminal illness can be justified under the principle of double effect. The guiding elements of this principle are that the course chosen must be good, good must not follow as a consequence of a secondary harmful effect, harm must...

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As nursing students, graduating nursing students, nurses, and other medical professional or even regular everyday people, communication is vitally important in ensuring the successful establishment and nurturing of relationships between individuals. Ineffective communication can lead to the degradation of any relationship, which can ultimately result in broken relationships, lost jobs, and other negative consequences. Therapeutic communication is a practice that allows effective rapport-building between the medical personal, regardless of current role, and the patient. What follows are some...

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