The role
What a palliative care nurse actually does, day to day.
As a palliative care specialist nurse, you care for people with serious illnesses - cancer, heart disease, and other conditions that are not going to get better. Your job is to help them be as comfortable as possible, manage their pain and other symptoms, and support them emotionally and spiritually. You also help their families through an incredibly difficult time.
You spend time listening to people, understanding what matters to them, and planning their care around their wishes. You work with doctors and other specialists to manage pain and symptoms, and you provide emotional support when needed. You may work in hospitals, hospices or people's homes. This work can be sad, but it is deeply meaningful - you help people live as well as they can in their last months or years.
Day to day
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