Hospice nurses can teach family members and other caregivers how to care for the hospice patient in the home and in the facility settings
What Is Hospice?
Hospice provides visiting nurses, personal care & other professional care services to people in their own home, nursing facilities, and residential care settings.
Hospice is an alternitive type of medical care for people facing a terminal illness or the natural end of their life. The goal of hospice is to help people live out their days with dignity & self determination rather than an ongoing series of futile medical procedures or repeated trips to the hospital.
A hospice nurse is on call after business hours, nights, weekends and holidays, to answer questions and see patients.
Hospice can assist patients and families in filling out an Advanced Care Directive so that the patient's end of life care decisions are respected and carried out.
Hospice provides counseling and emotional support to both the patient and the family who are facing end of life issues and the stresses and challenges they present.
Hospice will provide bereavement services and grief support groups to the family and friends for a full year after the patients death.
Hospice care is not giving up on life.
Hospice care if for those who want to live out the end of their lives on their own terms.
