Patient Shadowing Report

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1. The 4-hour shadowing experience at Casa De La Luz Hospice was insightful to the aspects of palliative care. The experience included shadowing the hospice physician and nurse as they calmly interacted with the patients, assessing for abnormalities in ABC, safety, and pain. Additionally, this experience provided examples of therapeutic communication techniques that were appropriate when speaking to patients and families.
2. Interventions that I witnessed and felt were appropriate for the dying process were catheterizing a patient, breathing treatments, and doubling the narcotic dose to a patient. These interventions were appropriate for the dying process, because it allowed for an ease in the efforts to avoid wetting the bed and to maintain

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