What is Continuous Care?
What is a Bedside Vigil?
Understand when and why continuous care is initiated — including symptom crises like pain, breathing distress, or agitation — and how hospice nurses provide extended, around-the-clock support to manage symptoms and maintain patient comfort.
Learn what typically happens during the final stages of life and how hospice supports patients and families emotionally, physically, and spiritually. This includes signs of approaching death, comfort measures, and the role of the interdisciplinary care team.
Roles of the Hospice Team:
Insight into how nurses, aides, chaplains, social workers, and volunteers work together during this critical time, including what families can expect during 24/7 support and end-of-life presence.
Supporting the Family:
Tips on how to emotionally support loved ones, communicate compassionately, and find moments of peace and meaning during the vigil.
Myths & Realities of the Final Hours:
Addressing common fears and questions about dying and the body’s natural process of letting go.
Who Should Attend:
Family members of hospice patients, caregivers, medical professionals, and anyone who wants to better understand compassionate end-of-life care.
Goal:
To bring peace of mind, emotional preparedness, and practical knowledge to those present during life’s most tender moments.