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Comment on: Dying patients denied pain relief because of legal fears
On reading this article, I am utterly amazed at how many nurses have concerns in administering medication for pain relief to palliative care patient, I work on a General High Dependency unit and therefore I don’t not come across many patients who need palliative care, however my trust uses the Liverpool care of the dying pathway. It is a pathway that is rarely used on my unit but when it is I feel happy to follow the guidelines to make my patients as comfortable as I possibly can, within this there are guidelines for the doctors prescriptions, if the doctors prescriptions are the same as the pathway guidelines then there should be no concerns in administering the medication to give the patient (and relatives) comfort why they need it most. I would assume that most hospitals follow similar pathways or have policies in place, if not why not. !!! if nurses are afraid to give medication when these guidelines and policies are in place it is obvious that more education is needed to give them confidence.
