Week 3 Learning Activity: Hospice GRO 410 Death & Dying

LEARNING ACTIVITY WORKSHEET - Week Three HOSPICE What is meant by patient-centered care? Patient-centered care is treatment that patients are involved and included in. The type of care and treatment is parallel to the patients beliefs, needs, preferences, and values. According to the Picker Institute and Harvard Medical School, there are eight principles of patient-centered care; respect for patients' values, preferences, and expressed needs involves patients in all decision making; coordination and integration of care involves coordinating proper care to lessen fear and vulnerability; information and education involves allowing patients to learn about their prognosis-knowing the medical language and the meaning...