Abstract
Nowadays, nursing is an effective and indispensable member of the health team both in Turkey and in the world. Because people need care practices any point their life experiences that end in health, well-being, discomfort, disease and death. While palliative care practices, which are seen as key point of nursing practices among care needs, are only care for patients in the last stage of life, it is opinion that it is necessary to reduce the pain level and improve the quality of life according to the palliative care principles. Recent cancer patients constitute a significant part of patients receiving palliative care and have problems due to symptoms caused by chemotherapy treatment. Pain is the most feared outcome of these symptoms. Pharmacological treatment, pain, community, despite various educational practices, patients often complain of problem. It is important to create complementary and integrated approaches to palliative care for pain, which significantly affects the daily living activities and quality of life of patients. In addition, complementary and integrated care practices in palliative care help to prevent nursing from being a job-oriented profession and to focus on nursing role and practices, not medical applications.
Highlights
In recent years, significant changes have occurred in sociocultural and population characteristics and medical diagnosis / treatment methods of societies
101 Fadime Toru and Ebru Yıldız: Cancer Patients for Pain Complementaries and Integrated Approaches Used in Palliative Care selection of the articles to be included in the study; (1) The results of this study suggest complementary and integrative approaches to pain used in palliative care in cancer patients; (2) the language of publication is Turkish or English; (3) published in the last decade (2008-2018); (4) access to the full text
It is seen that the peripheral and cognitive methods used in palliative care in cancer patients are used to reduce and control pain level and it is confirmed that these methods have a positive or negative effect on pain level
Summary
Significant changes have occurred in sociocultural and population characteristics and medical diagnosis / treatment methods of societies. While palliative care practices have been performed only for the patients in the last stage of life, it is advocated that palliative care should be applied as early as possible in patients who are aimed at reducing the pain level and increasing the quality of life according to the principles of palliative care [23]. End-stage cancer patients constitute an important part of the patients receiving palliative care and have problems due to both cancer and the symptoms of the side effects of chemotherapy treatment. It is important to establish palliative approaches to pain in cancer patients
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