This customizable document, Care of the Dying Patient, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Hospice Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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Here is some sample content from Care of the Dying Patient:

	PURPOSE: To provide guidance in the care of the dying patient. POLICY: Hospice recognizes the importance of each patient, family or caregiver's unique and individual needs within the home care setting. Hospice plans, implements and monitors care within this framework to: Optimize the patient's comfort and dignity. Manage pain and symptoms through interventions that alleviate and/or control pain and assess the patient's level of pain control. Identify secondary symptoms, determine the patient's response to treatment, and take actions to limit them. Consider the psychosocial, emotional...
Second excerpt:
	...patient, family or caregiver. Provide bereavement care that supports the patient, family or caregiver with coping mechanisms throughout the grief process. PROCEDURE: At the beginning of treatment, and regularly, Hospice staff shall assess the patient, family or caregiver when appropriate for: Comfort/pain level; response to pain treatment plans Coping mechanisms, strengths of the patient, family or caregiver unit, participation in the grief process/bereavement Psychosocial, emotional...