| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 新聞研究所 === 106 === This is an in-depth reporting which was conducted by interviewing patients, family members, and hospice palliative care team members recruited during 2017 February and 2017 June from a university-affiliated medical center located at Northern Taiwan. Field observation was also conducted by targeting at the interactions between the patients, family members, and hospice palliative care team members.
This in-depth report was conducted by collecting and analyzing the physical, psychological and spiritual change after receiving hospice palliative care, and also investigated the emotional stress of the family members while taking care of the patients. Furthermore, by interviewing hospice palliative care team members, how physicians, nurses, clinical psychologists, spiritual care workers, art therapists, and music therapists worked together to help patients relieve physical, psychological, and spiritual sufferings, and achieve good death was examined.
By the following narrative stories, the concept of hospice palliative care was highlighted, in expectation to clearly pointing out that hospice palliative care is not the same as getting rid of life and medical care, but taking care of the patients with physical, psychological, and spiritual sufferings, and respecting life in every way.
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