The Nurse with a Big Heart
Hospice skilled Nurses
The Hospice Nurse that Cares
The Caring
Hospice Nurse
Hospice nurses provide constant and ongoing care for elderly and terminally ill patients by evaluating patient needs, creating care plans, and providing end-of-life support to patients and their families. Hospice nurses work flexible shifts that include nights, weekends, and holidays. They primarily work in collaborative, team-driven environments that require frequent communication with other caregivers. They typically report to a nursing staff supervisor or home health coordinator. Hospice nurses may be required to travel to fulfill their job duties when they work as in-home caregivers.
Hospice skilled Nurses are Caregivers with a Big Heart
Hospice Skilled Nurse & Patients
The Dedication of Hospice skilled Nurse
Our commitment to patient care is best exemplified by our healthcare staff. Nurses are carefully trained to ensure every hospice patient receives the care they deserve, more support, more time, more attention.
Hospice Nurse & Patient relationship
Hospice Nurses and their patients get to know one another, and with nurses being so intimately knowledgeable of a patient’s end-of-life journey, a powerful and unique emotional bond forms.
It is common for them to see their nurse as a trusted confidant. Sharing treasured memories or even deep-seated fears, patients reveal things to their nurse that they may not even entrust to their closest family members.
"Nurses are a unique kind. They have this insatiable need to care for others, which is both their greatest strength and fatal flaw."
Jean Watson, American nurse theorist and nursing professor
Hospice Nurses care a lot
know your Nurse
As nurses help carry out a patient’s plan of care, they continually document any changes in the patient’s status and log specific recommendations aimed at improving a patient’s overall level of comfort.
Equipped with this information, the hospice nurse submits these recommendations and the latest information surrounding the patient’s condition at the interdisciplinary hospice team meetings.
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Provide Attention
A large portion of a hospice nurse’s responsibilities lie in the provision of hands-on, direct care for patients. This holds especially true for case managers and visit nurses.
02
Provide room for Trust
Patients share their fears about death and what might await in the hereafter, the hospice nurse can work closely together with patients to address those fears and find peace.
03
Follow up on Patient Welfare
Hospice nurses help carry out a patient’s plan of care, they continually document any changes in the patient’s status and give recommendations aimed at improving a patient’s overall level of comfort.
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.