Is taking a hospice patient on a social outing considered palliative care?

In our hospital we offer palliative care consults to patients/families at different stages of dying. We offer it to patients with chronic illnesses who may live for some time, but who may require a...

I am not certain, but I think that it you would be able to work in palliative care. I also work in disability and know that there are staff that I work with who then leave to work at the hospital. ...

Palliative measures are given to patients to improve their level of comfort. For example, you can't cure the common cold, but you can treat the sniffly water eyes with medication. Chicken so...

You must become a nurse in the traditional schooling then can specialize after u get a degree. You could also work as a nurses aide in a hospice or volunteer in one .There are many positions op...

I am going through something very similar, just from your mother-in-laws perspective. I have terminal adrenal cancer. It has been very hard in like ways on my family and friends. My palliative c...

I am sorry to hear that your uncle is in pain. I don't know what kind of cancer your uncle has, but the pain can usually be well controlled. Palliative care means treatment to make the p...

Are you in the uk? If so it is as my Mother needed it in last weeks of her life and we had Mcmillan nurses,Hospice at Home,they were brilliant people at such a heartbreakingly difficult time they w...

I used to have a girlfriend who was a palliative care nurse. She was very emotionally involved in her work. She cared very much for the patients who were in her ward. She took it very personally wh...