Identify the roles a palliative care member has with other multidisciplinary team members. Select all that apply
1. Advocate
2. Pharmacy role for comfort
3. Obtain doctors' orders and carry out procedures
4. Nutrition
5. Child life
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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1. Seeks to advocate for the patient and family's wants and needs
2. Works with pharmacy to provide comfort measures that the patient and family want
3. One person can be designated to speak with the doctor so that information is concise.
4. The palliative care coordinator can work with the nutritionist to provide for the patient's wants.
5. The child life and the palliative care personnel can find ways to engage the child at the end of life.
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