Category: Nurses

Most wait too long to engage hospice services

Hospice services are provided to a patient wherever they consider home, including a personal care facility or skilled nursing home, or in some cases, … See the full Hospice Nurses article.

Hospices fear closure as funding dries up

Tracey Taylor, 54, lead nurse at Marie Curie’s Liverpool hospice, said: “My team has felt that the heart has been ripped out of palliative care at times. See the full Hospice Nurses article.

Letter: Selling hospice not in community’s interest

This would greatly interfere with the quality of care due to increased caseloads for nurses, social workers and spiritual-care providers. It would limit our … See the full Hospice Nurses article.