Palliative Cares and Pain Control Clinic
The Pediatric Palliative Cares and Pain Control Clinic at the Children's National Hospital, focuses its intervention from a bio-psycho-social-spiritual perspective to improve the life quality of children and adolescents with limited life conditions, in a terminal phase or not; as well as to support their family. In the different scenarios: hospital, shelter and home, these include:
- Handling Symptoms
- Psycho-Social Support
- Grief Process Support
Our mission is to offer the boy, girl, adolescent and their family, an efficient, effective and opportune attention, based on the principles and philosophy of the Palliative Care.
Our general objective is to improve the quality of life of the boy, girl and teenager with advanced, progressive disease, without possibilities of treatment and/or in a final stage, with the application of the scientific and philosophical principles of the palliative care, and through the different scenarios: hospital, domicile and diurnal care shelter, actively incorporating the family and the community in their attention.
Our specific objectives are the following ones:
To offer interdisciplinary alternatives of attention for patients in a final stage and to their families.
To extend the attention coverage of palliative cares to take relief and hope to a greater number of children and adolescents who need it, and to their families.
To offer an effective, efficient, opportune and continuous attention to children and teenagers who face a limited life condition.
To establish coordination strategies with the different attention levels among the Health Services System in the country for the attention of children and adolescents with a terminal disease.
To incorporate different disciplines from the health field in the attention of children and teenagers with a terminal disease.
To base the patients attendance on team work.
To educate and support the patient's family during the disease and grief processes.
To offer training and teaching.
To incorporate the community through trained volunteers groups.
To develop services sales strategies that guarantee the financing of the program.
To do research.
