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High-Tech Care in a Hospice Setting

Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses; Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association; NationalCouncilof Hospice Professionals

Cora Palmer

Technology calls for health care providers to become more skilled in giving care; this carries over to all clinical areas, including home care hospices. Hospice patients are now requiring more high-tech care to remain at home and have their symptoms managed adequately. We, as nurses, can no longer just care for the dying patient in the home without being up-to-date and well-informed of different intravenous access devices, feeding tubes and pumps, and high-risk management for multiple medical diagnoses. In many cases, an early referral into hospice can allow for a much more beneficial and insightful experience by all people involved. A case study is presented on a patient who received high-tech care yet high-touch, empathetic hospice care.

Key Words: high-tech care • hospice • Tenckhoff catheter

Home Health Care Management & Practice, Vol. 14, No. 5, 335-337 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1084822302014005004


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