Palliative Care
At the 2016 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium, the message was clear and emphatic: We should care about caregivers as both co-deliverers and co-recipients of healthcare services.
A simple quality improvement project to increase duration of hospice care for patients has doubled hospice length of stay, reaching the national median in 1 year.
Earlier palliative care for oncology patients with advanced cancer is the new frontier.
Amy Velasquez, RN, BSN, OCN, talks about palliative care in an outpatient setting, financial implications, and the impact on a patient’s quality of life. “Our role is to walk with [patients] and not be afraid to talk about what palliative care is.”
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