Hospice NurseHospice nurse takes care of the terminally ill patient in the last stage of their lives. The key role of a hospice nurse is to provide emotional support along with traditional duties of a nurse, assessing, documenting, administering medicine, and observing. Hospice nurse is generally a registered nurse with additional training in pain and symptom management and other end-of-life issues. Hospice nurses have a particularly tough job because they need to make the patients last days as comfortable as possible. Most of the Hospice nurse’s duties involve minimizing pain.
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