Caring Hearts Hospice Care and Medication support
Medication support
Patient care and Medication
Medications
Management
Patients in the last phase of their lives often use many medications. Our Physicians are awareness that reviewing the usefulness of medication at the end of patients’ lives is important. Also, our professional nurses plays an important role in medication management at the end of life by informing, supporting, representing, and involving all relevant parties.
Working with physicians, they appreciate nurses’ input to optimize medication management in patients at the end of life. Because we recognize the role the nurses can have in promoting patients’ interest in medication management at the end of life, our nurses are reinforced through continuous education and training to take up this role.
Caring Hearts Hospice Care Medications
Medications & Hospice Care
Professional Medication Administration
At Caring Heart our goal of hospice care is to increase patients’ comfort and enhance their quality of life. we are able to do this through a wide range of services – from caregiver training to companionship.
Medication can also be a vital part of hospice care, helping to relieve common end-of-life symptoms such as pain. Easing these discomforts enhances patients’ well-being.
However, patients and families don’t always understand why medicine has been prescribed and may have concerns about certain drugs. That is where our professional Nurses come in.
“There is no shame in taking Medication to get better, Do whatever works for you.”
Anonymous
Common Hospice Medications: Prescription Needed
Dexamethasone (DEX-uh-METH-uh-sone)
A steroid used for multiple purposes. Brand names include Decadron, Dexamethasone Intensol, and Dexpak Taperpak. For hospice patients, it can relieve pain, reduce swelling, increase appetite and relieve nausea.
Lorazepam (lore-AY-zuh-pam)
Reduces anxiety, agitation, shortness of breath, and insomnia. Commonly available under the brand name Ativan or Lorazepam Intensol, it comes in either a tablet or liquid and is taken by mouth.
Haloperidol (hal-oh-PER-uh-dol)
It helps reduce agitation and nausea. Known by the brand name Haldol, it also treats certain psychiatric conditions and hyperactivity in children.
It should not be given to patients with seizure disorders, because it can increase the frequency or severity of seizures.
we are part of the family. all the way through.
Caring Hearts Hospice care provides Hospice services to comfort and preserve dignity in the face of terminal illness when medical treatments can no longer cure a disease. our team of hospice professionals still can do a great deal to control pain, reduce anxiety and offer needed spiritual and emotional support to patients and their families.