4 Contact Hour Caring For Patients In Their Final Days Of Life

Course overview

List three changes that have occurred in hospice since the 1980s. Identify two types of advanced directives. Identify two stressors that families of dying patients may face. Identify two factors that influence elderly patient's reporting of pain. Describe three symptoms of pain in a patient suffering from dementia. List three routes of morphine administration. State three benefits of parenteral patient-controlled analgesia. Describe symptom management interventions for one common end of life symptom which patients experience. Define palliative sedation. List three ways that employers can support nurses caring for patients at end of life.