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EXPERT VIEW Surprising Truths Within Hospice Care
Carolyn Peterson is an RN who has worked as a nurse for 43 years. Seventeen years ago, she began to focus exclusively in the area of hospice care. She works for an organization that provides care for the dying and incurably ill.
Q: RNs have the capability of working in almost any area of medical care. What attracts you and keeps you working with hospice?
A: I think it's the humanity of the work. RNs enter a person's life at a time when the rest of the medical community seems to have abandoned them. When people get to the point in their illness where it can't be fixed, a lot of the medical community kind of give up on them. Many times when nurses first meet a patient or family, they might be the first one to have explained what's going on in terms of their disease and that, truthfully, there is no more treatment available except hospice. It takes quite a bit of finesse and compassion, and when a nurse has these conversations there are no do-overs.
Q: Would you explain to the lawyer readers of this book about the composition of a hospice team?
A: Medicare dictates who must be a part of the interdisciplinary hospice team. The top person is the medical director, who is an employee of the hospice and must be a doctor who is board certified in hospice and palliative care (relieving and preventing suffering). There must be a nurse case manager, a nondenominational chaplain, and a social worker.
Q: In a typical month...
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- Alzheimer's and the Practice of Law: Counseling Clients with Dementia and Their Families (ABA)
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Expert View I Have Become My Wife's Parent
- Chapter 1 What Is Alzheimer's Disease?
- Expert View Client Confabulation: the Attorney's Consternation
- Chapter 2 Ethics and the Alzheimer's Client
- Chapter 3 Life, Death, and Care Instructions
- Appendix Health-care Power of Attorney and Combined Advance Directive Legislation
- Expert View Surprising Truths Within Hospice Care
- Expert View 10 Tips for Caregivers
- Chapter 4 Special-needs Trusts and Pooled Trusts
- Appendix A Declaration of Trust (excerpt)
- Appendix B Will of John Pourback
- Expert View The Marriage of Technology and Alzheimer's Caregiving: Staying Safely at Home Longer
- Chapter 5 Government Benefits
- Expert View The Red Flag of Alzheimer's: a Change of Character
- Chapter 6 Guardianships and Conservatorships
- Expert View Even Experienced Lawyers Make These Mistakes
- Chapter 7 Financial Exploitation
- Expert View When the Indispensable Caregiver Is the Abuser
- Chapter 8 Personal-care Agreements and Nursing Home Contracts
- Expert View The Hope of Vanquishing Alzheimer's Disease
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