A nurse explained hospice services to a patient with metastatic cancer. In evaluating the teaching, the nurse determines the need for further information when the patient states that one of the services provided in hospice care is:
a. experimental chemotherapy.
b. symptom management.
c. psychosocial support.
d. nutritional counseling.
A
Hospice care would not include any form of chemotherapy, which is a therapy generally intended to treat or cure cancer. Hospice care does involve pain and symptom management, nutritional counseling, physical/occupational/speech therapies, home health services for personal care, psychosocial and emotional support, grief counseling, and crisis care during medical emergencies.
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