Journal 10
Tuesday, November 17th: Today was my second day with Hospice. We were the piece of Hospice that makes visits in the home. It the beginning of the day however, we started in the building with other members of the hospice team. They were meeting together for a weekly meeting. The weekly meeting they were having is one that they are familiar with. They have this meeting every Tuesday to discuss their patient’s plan of care. They cannot cover all the patients every Tuesday for time constraints so they cover half of the alphabet by last name one Tuesday and the other half the next Tuesday. Since the type of work they do often involves deaths, they begin the meeting by naming those who have died and asking about their death (whether is was peaceful or not and what happened). Not only do they ask about the deceased patient, but being a family-centered organization, they also as how the family is coping and what the experience was like for them. The people in the meeting represented almost every disciple working with the patient. These roles included nurses, social workers, physicians, and chaplains. The only noticeably absent role I observed was that the UAPs were not present to voice their concerns about the patient. I think this is …show more content…
Hospice Home is not. I did not ask my preceptor how autonomous she feels buts I did note that her access to a physician is just a phone call away. My preceptor seemed to feel that having the UAPs as a part of the conversation is helpful to get a full picture of the plan of care. The patients we saw were not in their last week of life so I could not assess if they were at peace or not. Neither of the clients we saw discussed how they felt about dying. Both clients and their families had an excellent understanding of how Hospice works, and how it can meet their
Tuesday, November 17th: Today was my second day with Hospice. We were the piece of Hospice that makes visits in the home. It the beginning of the day however, we started in the building with other members of the hospice team. They were meeting together for a weekly meeting. The weekly meeting they were having is one that they are familiar with. They have this meeting every Tuesday to discuss their patient’s plan of care. They cannot cover all the patients every Tuesday for time constraints so they cover half of the alphabet by last name one Tuesday and the other half the next Tuesday. Since the type of work they do often involves deaths, they begin the meeting by naming those who have died and asking about their death (whether is was peaceful or not and what happened). Not only do they ask about the deceased patient, but being a family-centered organization, they also as how the family is coping and what the experience was like for them. The people in the meeting represented almost every disciple working with the patient. These roles included nurses, social workers, physicians, and chaplains. The only noticeably absent role I observed was that the UAPs were not present to voice their concerns about the patient. I think this is …show more content…
Hospice Home is not. I did not ask my preceptor how autonomous she feels buts I did note that her access to a physician is just a phone call away. My preceptor seemed to feel that having the UAPs as a part of the conversation is helpful to get a full picture of the plan of care. The patients we saw were not in their last week of life so I could not assess if they were at peace or not. Neither of the clients we saw discussed how they felt about dying. Both clients and their families had an excellent understanding of how Hospice works, and how it can meet their