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Hospice Nurses Take a Holistic Approach to Dementia Care

Nurse.com

Once hospice care is appropriate, the hospice team will need to identify the family’s wishes if the patient did not express end-of-life goals in advance by: Establishing care goals — Hospice nurses can help families and caregivers have discussions and make decisions concerning end-of-life issues. Support for caregivers.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. And then they had to be receiving 48 hours of continuous mechanical ventilation at a minimum and be an adult. Eric: Well, let’s talk about caregivers. Eric: And how did you do that? Eric: Okay.