Palliative Care, Medicine and Hospice Nursing

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Hospice and Palliative Medicine is a formal subspecialty of Medicine in the United States that spotlights on symptom management, relief of suffering and end-of-life care. In 2006, hospice and palliative solution was authoritatively perceived by the American Board of Medical Specialties. This authority has mastery in the evaluation of patients with cutting edge illness and catastrophic injury, the relief of distressing symptoms, the coordination of interdisciplinary patient and family-focused consideration in assorted settings, the utilization of particular consideration frameworks including hospice, the administration of the imminently dying patient and legal and ethical decision making in end-of-life care.