Hospice

Hospice of Cincinnati provides care for those that are considered to be not long for this world. They provide comfort care, talking with the patients, providing basic medical care, and doing whatever they can to allow comfort in the patient's hour of need.

The first Hospice was set up by Christian nuns in 1900 in Ireland

It refers to the law or regulation that allows an individual to set up, in legal form, the particular circumstances under which they would not wish to have their life prolonged. It is usually (but not always) associated with a Medical Power of Attorney ,and is (supposedly) binding on any caregiver.

A "hospital" is a place where people go to get some medical treatment when they are sick or injured. Most major cities have several hospitals. When you go to a hospital, you generally hope to come back alive. When you go to a 'hospice', on the other hand, you go with no such hope. One generally goes to a hospice knowing he/she is going to die. A hospice is a special hospital where people who are terminally ill get admitted. These people have no hope of being cured. So, unlike a hospital, a hospice not only takes care of the medical needs of a patient, but also looks after his emotional needs. The focus here is on keeping people as comfortable as possible - both physically and emotionally. By the way, the final "pice" in 'hospice' rhymes with the words "miss" and "kiss". The final 'e' is silent and the main stress is on the first syllable. Here are a few examples.

Your physician will refer you to hospice if he feels he cannot do much about your condition and doesn't expect you to live for more than six months.

Traditional hospital medicine is medicine related to hospital care. Hospital care means any aspect of caring for someone in the hospital setting, whether the person is expected to recover and be released, sent to another facility, or is expected not to live. Hospital care is geared toward the treatment and possible cure of an illness or ailment, with the hope that the person will recover.

On the other hand, hospice care is the care of a person who has been diagnosed with terminal illness, and expects there not to be a cure for it. Therefore the hospice patient is receiving care that is geared toward ultimate comfort and improvement of quality of life during those final days or months of his life. This type of care is known as palliative care, or comfort care.

It should be noted that not all palliative care is geared towards hospice patients: to care could also be geared toward patients who have a chronic condition that is also not curable, such as someone with cerebral palsy.

are there 5,283 hospice programs in the united states

That is correct but not most of the time is a hospice nurse treating dying patients. The hospice nurse is actually a home health aid that comes and does everthing in a hospital but in your home cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, bathing, brushing teeth etc.. Not only is there a unique bond with the patient to nurse but there is also an optinal chance for you to have a therapist come and talk to you about the nurse and everything. Hospic is a really nice place and people are very friendly that work there. I respect them a lot! A hospice nurse does everything a regular nurse does in terms of administering medications, charting the patients progress and generally caring for the patient. The difference is that hospice patients are terminally ill, so there's an added dimension of being able to care for someone who is clearly dying. That requires a good deal of character, compassion and understanding.

Hospice nurses, unlike others nurses, have to show decline or patients in order for them to remain on hospice care. In most nursing specialties, nurses must show improvement. Hospice nurses also work with interdisciplinary teams and treat the family as well as the patient.

A social worker has to be patient, loving and deeply compassionate. They also have to be able to keep going under extremely stressful situations.

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A hospice was originally a place of rest for travellers and in this sense of the word, it dates back to the fourth century. In the modern sense of a place where palliative care is provided for people with a terminal illness, the first purpose-built hospice is St. Christophers Hospice in London, England. It was built in 1967.

The hospice approach emphasizes caring instead of curing, and some health professionals initially found that this orientation was inconsistent with their previous education, experiences, beliefs, and traditions.

because the workers there know that the patients are on there last days, and they want to make them comfortable. there are to many patients that do not get the proper care, and are suffering terribly in there last days

Since the patient and his or her family members are considered the unit of care, hospice programs continue to support families and loved ones after the patient's death.

About 72 min

The normal training would be an RN and several weeks of orientation.

Salaries for nurses anywhere in the USA are payed by the hour not on a per year basis. Starting salaries for RN's are between $19 to $24 dollars per hour depending on where you work (hospital, nursing home, doctors office, home care, ect.) and what you specialty is. Depending on the policy of your employer overtime may be counted as time and a half for anything over 40hours/week. Hospitals and critical care pays the most. Each year a nurse has been working a pay increase of about one dollar per hour is standard. You may ask for a raise after six months of being on the job.

5-10 mins

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The word is capitalised only if it forms part of the name of a specific hospice:

'When my father became very ill, he asked to be taken to the local hospice.'

'My father died in Greenacres Hospice in Horsfield.'

In this respect, it is like any other word for a type of building or institution: house, hospital, college, university, clinic, home, infirmary ...

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