Comfort, Healing and Dignity Commentaries: On Our Final Voyage
Especially in the last few weeks of their lives, At VistaRiver, Hospice Massage Therapy gives comfort, peace, and relief to persons with serious illnesses. It is so much more than tender, loving care; it encompasses the total well-being of the patient: the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of the patient.,The use of hospice massage therapy is quite powerful, because with help of mild, careful touches, the patient’s pain is easing, stress is decreasing, and with this therapy, the patients feel more comfortable during the most difficult days of their lives. This calming practice helps convert the overall hospice feel and process more to comfort, respect, and kinship.
Compassionate Touch With Massage Therapy
VistaRiver Hospice massage therapy is specialized for those patients who are in their last stages or on hospice care. Different from conventional massage, it uses only touch without pressure and comes in simple methods suitable for hospice residents. The principal aim is pain relief and simple enhancement of the body condition, reduction of pain, decrease of muscle contractions, improved blood circulation, and relaxation. This compassionate touch is beneficial to patients searching for comfort as most of them lose sleep at night and develop in the process emotional healing and peace.
Gentle Caressing
Patients may suffer from pain and chronic pain, fatigue, or other side effects resulting from medication or other treatments. Hospice massage professionals perform gentle caressing to help treat knots and soreness affecting patients and give them a break from distress, enabling them to spend time with family and friends.
In addition to following physical benefits, hospice massage therapy embraces mental and spiritual benefits amid terminal healthcare.
Hospice massage therapy does not only follow a specific protocol but is in tune with the capabilities of the patient and what he/ she wants. Despite being administered at the patient’s home, a hospice center, or within a healthcare delivery setting, the therapist collaborates with other care providers to provide comfort measures and safety measures for the patient. People with feeble health have their treatment techniques adjusted not to harm them in any way, but to make the process enjoyable and healthy to the patient’s body.
In the heartaches of families addressing end-of-life issues:
Hospice massage therapy is about presence. It makes the last stage in life sweet and gentle instead of painful and fearful. Therefore, it might be summarized that such a type of hospice massage therapy is a beautiful and caring approach. This is embracing the effect of touch as a means of transference, to give the last days of life an emotionally fulfilling process.
VistaRiver Hospice massage therapy provides comfort, relieving pain, lessening depressive feelings, and building relationships, it offers the patients a chance to become calm and quiet. This humanized care allows people to find comfort, not only during their last moments of life but also for their families providing them with care and presence in such a delicate stage of life.
Main Goals of Hospice Nurses
Symptom control and pain relief remain the main goals of hospice care nursing at VistaRiver. By virtue of being specialized, they are well-placed to address secondary problems such as chronic pain, nausea, shortness of breath, and anxiety hence keeping patients as comfortable as can be. As hospice nurses know the difficulties that patients who receive terminal diagnoses go through, they can offer medication and non-pharmacologic approaches that may be helpful to each patient. They make sure that those who are suffering have comfort from some of the symptoms experienced which makes them comfortable till they die.
Many critical care patients experience emotions of anxiety, fear, sadness, hopelessness, anger, etc, and need to be comforted. Not only do they attend to the medical aspect of the patients but during critical times and need a listening ear they are there to console us.
Secondly, hospice nurses at VistaRiver help the relatives of the patients, as they maintain the stress and anxiety that usually surround the terminal phase of the illness. Setting up constant contact and teaching, nurses support families to engage in the care process, providing guidance on important matters such as feeding, bathing, and giving out medications among others.
Hospice nurses are also the patient’s voice in the whole healthcare process. They assist in making a patient-centered care environment where the patient’s values, preferences and goals are honored and respected in every care given. While a patient may want to be at home with family or they may opt for a hospice, the role of a nurse includes ensuring that such an environment is safe, and comfortable and matches the patient’s desires.
At VistaRiver, hospice nurses offer more than medical care to their patients. All thanks to their intelligence, passion, and hard work. They give company, assurance, and respect to the patient’s family members. They visit the patient’s home to cater for their body needs as well as spirituality, to be part of the Hospice team and to support and help the family and the patient during one of the worst phases in life.