They will keep the patient comfortable with pain medication and other implements of comfort during that patient's final moments.
The hospital can request patient to sign to go to hospice, but can NOT make the patient sign to go to hospice.
If the script says hospice, it should be for a hospice patient.
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Yes, a LPN can legally administer narcotics to a hospice patient.
As far as I know, only one doctor needs to certify a patient for hospice, and it can be the patients doctor that does this. I've work with hospice for 20 years, and in that 20 years I've never heard that it took two doctors or just the medical director with hospice to certify a patient to be enrolled in the hospice care program. The patient does hwoever need to be deemed terminal for the hospice care program to be considered.
Hospice workers go to homes because the hospice patient prefers to be at home to die, instead of a hospice house.
The doctor must certify for a patient to go into hospice, but anyone can call hospice for information that is in the system
The hospice patient probably would have pain if not given the pain meds, so it is to keep the pain at bay.
Yes, along with the Chaplain, this is part of what a hospice nurse does.
Hospice comes in when nothing else can be done for the patient and they can live at home until the end. Sorry.
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