What is hospice?

I'm new in town, And i'm looking some part-time work
doing some hospice care [private-duty nursing]p.s taken care of the sick.

They take care of the dying in their last stages. You have to be able to handle the family part as well as the patient part. Unusual type of work in that you are only helping to make a terminal person as comfortable as possible rather than helping them to heal. Hospice is actually ordered by a physician when there's nothing left to do.

hospice is what sick people are on when they're about to die. My mom was on hospice, she had cancer, and she had a hospice caregiver come in daily to take care of her, help with housework, make sure she had food, helped with showering, just basic care until she passed. The hospice workers were wonderful, and since my dad works nights and I couldn't be here all the time, it was nice to know that my mom had help.

i thought u didnt know wut hospice means!?

Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. It aims at improving quality of life, by reducing or eliminating pain and other physical symptoms, enabling the patient to ease or resolve psychological and spiritual problems, and supporting the partner and family.

The World Health Organisation (WHO), in a 1990 report on the topic, defined palliative care as "the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment". This definition stresses the terminal nature of the disease. However, the term can also be used more generally to refer to anything that alleviates symptoms, even if there is also hope of a cure by other means; thus, a more recent WHO statement [1] calls palliative care "an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness." In some cases, palliative treatments may be used to alleviate the side effects of curative treatments, such as relieving the nausea associated with chemotherapy.

The term is not generally used with regard to a chronic disease such as diabetes which, although currently incurable, has treatments that are (ideally) effective enough that it is not considered a progressive or life-threatening disease in the same sense as cancer or progressive neurological conditions. It is, however, occasionally used with regard to some diseases, such as chronic, progressive pulmonary disorders and end stage renal disease or chronic heart failure.

Though the concept of palliative care is not new, in the past most doctors have concentrated on aggressively trying to cure patients, so that concentrating on making a patient comfortable was seen as "giving up" on them. In recent times the concept of having a good quality of life has gained ground, although many would argue that there is a long way to go yet. A relatively recent development is the concept of a health care team that is entirely geared toward palliation; this is often called hospice or palliative care.

My family had to discover for ourselves 18 months ago for an elderly dad. We thought it was a place. It is special care by a team of people for people terminally ill for a short or long period of time. Our hospitals have volunteers who commit to learn about hospice care. Some end of life people can pass away at home. Most end up in a nursing home or assisted care place. To work in one, you need to be caring, loving, sometimes put up with abuse of the dying, and be able to let go emotionally. For those who gave a special touch and heart for this kind of work and treat your hospice person (s) with dignity, GOD BLESS YOU from the bottom of my heart! Ours was to last 3 weeks-3 months. Hospice care still takes care of him 18 months later and calls us a lot since we live 500+ miles away. He had pneumonia, again, but at the assisted care place they sent a nurse to stay at the care center all night even though he's in a hospital setting. We have a pastor as part of the hospice team. I hope this helps you and you are experienced in this line of work. Perhaps you are more interested in sitting for the elderly in their homes to help relieve their families.

Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. It aims at improving quality of life, by reducing or eliminating pain and other physical symptoms, enabling the patient to ease or resolve psychological and spiritual problems, and supporting the partner and family.

The World Health Organisation (WHO), in a 1990 report on the topic, defined palliative care as "the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment". This definition stresses the terminal nature of the disease. However, the term can also be used more generally to refer to anything that alleviates symptoms, even if there is also hope of a cure by other means; thus, a more recent WHO statement [1] calls palliative care "an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness." In some cases, palliative treatments may be used to alleviate the side effects of curative treatments, such as relieving the nausea associated with chemotherapy.

The term is not generally used with regard to a chronic disease such as diabetes which, although currently incurable, has treatments that are (ideally) effective enough that it is not considered a progressive or life-threatening disease in the same sense as cancer or progressive neurological conditions. It is, however, occasionally used with regard to some diseases, such as chronic, progressive pulmonary disorders and end stage renal disease or chronic heart failure.

Though the concept of palliative care is not new, in the past most doctors have concentrated on aggressively trying to cure patients, so that concentrating on making a patient comfortable was seen as "giving up" on them. In recent times the concept of having a good quality of life has gained ground, although many would argue that there is a long way to go yet. A relatively recent development is the concept of a health care team that is entirely geared toward palliation; this is often called hospice or palliative care.