Hospice & End-of-Life Care Essentials

Provide comfort-focused care for a hospice patient: the hospice philosophy, the Medicare hospice benefit, recognizing the actively-dying phase, the PAINAD scale for nonverbal pain, comfort measures, and the time-of-death protocol. Supported by patient care fundamentals, dementia care (common in this population), and caregiver stress tools because compassion fatigue is real.