ONANCOCK ? Eastern
Shore's Hospice and Palliative Care is an organization that cares
for people burdened with advance or life limiting afflictions. This kind of
care is specially designed to aim attention at giving comfort and relief from
suffering ? particularly when there is no more cure available.
It is a must for hospice nurses to be trained to satisfy the deeply personal and unusual
situations that patients and their loved ones take on at this particular time.
Nurses involved in providing this kind of care needs to
under go a very specific educational training.To support the nurses need for this training, there is a national course
of study that RNs may choose to finish. Once a nurse has both accomplished this
stringent course of study and cared
for hospice patients not less than two years they are qualified to take the
national board certification exam.
As of December 2010, as HPCES proudly announced, every clinical nurse on staff has successfully accomplished
this procedure and been presented the title of Certified Hospice and Palliative
Nurse (CHPN).
As stated by Hospice
Executive Director, Karen Agar, "I am so proud of the hard work and
dedication of our nursing staff to reach this 100 percent goal; which will be a
great benefit to the residents of the Eastern Shore."