TIPS FOR HOSPICE NURSES: Understanding the difference between terminal agitation and general agitation. I’ve been getting a lot of questions about this, and it’s important because the approach to treatment is very different. Terminal agitation occurs at the very end of life when your patient is already bedbound, withdrawn, not eating, barely drinking, and no longer interacting. Then agitation suddenly appears. In these situations, we treat aggressively and quickly because our goal is to restore
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TIPS FOR HOSPICE NURSES: Understanding the difference between terminal agitation and general agitation. I’ve been getting a lot of questions about this, and it’s important because the approach to treatment is very different. Terminal agitation occurs at the very end of life when your patient is already bedbound, withdrawn, not eating, barely drinking, and no longer interacting. Then agitation suddenly appears. In these situations, we treat aggressively and quickly because our goal is to restore
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