Nurse.com
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
This can only be achieved if care teams, including hospice nurses, know the latest evidence-based strategies for dementia care. But hospice nurses also recognize the challenges these patients and their families face every day and are ready to help ease their distress and fear.
Hospice Nurse Hero
JANUARY 18, 2022
This is especially true in healthcare settings like home health and hospice when care is being provided in the patient’s home. For instance, as a hospice nurse, you spend a significant amount of time with your patients and their families. For instance, you may need to touch, feed, or even bathe a patient.
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Death and Dying Chronicles
OCTOBER 17, 2017
To be eligible for hospice care one must have a terminal diagnosis with a life expectancy of six months or less. A non hospice doctor determines this. A referral to hospice is given when all other treatments have been exhausted or would prove futile. Hospice staff gave the person medication. That did it.
Living With Hospice
JULY 5, 2020
But here's some typical emotions that I see in families when loved ones are in hospice care when I go visit them. I don't mean just changing the bedding and and coming in and helping with the meds and the feedings. This nurse got on her knees alongside this woman put her arm around her and eventually wept with her.
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