title: [The excellence in palliative care].
abstract: Palliative Care takes care for patients with advanced diseases. The main goal of palliative care is to get well-being to patient and his family with all available means and resources. In this situation, decision making can be difficult. Bioethics with a detailed analysis of each situation, based on good practice, and maintaining respect for the essential dignity of the human person, action oriented to be as accurate as possible. The situation faced by patients is unique. We must learn to adapt to each of their needs, motivations, desires and situations experienced. It should detect and enhance their own resources and patient's preferences in order to decrease their sense of impairment, functional loss, intellectual capacity; this can increase the suffering of patients and their families. We should try to encourage participation in the control of the situation and symptoms, promotes patient comfort. Caring for these patients requires a specialized training to respond to qualified small details that will facilitate reaching the end as peacefully as possible. It's necessary we take into account the high qualification, knowledge based on scientific studies and continuing education through research to generate the benefits of our actions. But the best personal qualities of sensitivity, service, polite response, empathy and support issues raised by the patient and family.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Centro de Cuidados Laguna, Madrid. eperezbret@lagunacuida.org
authors.forename: Encarnación
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pérez Bret
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards*