Hospice Nursing

Course overview

Provides Overview of Hospice, reviewing the following areas: - End-of-life care in America: quantify versus quality - Hospice care and Medicare - Palliative care versus hospice care - Roles and responsibilities of hospice care team members - Living wills and durable powers of attorney and health care proxy - Pain management in hospice - Spiritual, psychological, and family issues that in hospice care - Signs and symptoms in the actively dying hospice patient - Compassion fatigue and moral distress in healthcare professionals - Case Study