Health care professionals involved in hospice care include:
- Case managers. Hospitals and health insurance plans may assign case managers to oversee and coordinate health care. Often, case managers are registered nurses or social workers. They help coordinate services, keep tabs on a patient's progress, and communicate with the patient, caregiver, family, clinicians, and key departments, such as billing.
- Nurses. Nurses offer skilled nursing care, such as inserting intravenous lines, cleaning wounds, and changing bandages. They can also administer medications.
- Physical, occupational, or speech therapist. These trained professionals may do in-home therapy sessions.
- Respite care workers. Respite care workers can relieve a caregiver for varying periods of time.
Health care professionals involved in hospice care include: Case
managers. Hospitals and health insurance plans may assign case
managers to oversee and coordinate health care. Often, case
managers are registered nurses or social workers. They help...
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Suzanne Modigliani of Harvard Health Publications answered:Health care professionals involved in hospice care include:
