How to become a hospice care volunteer?

As a hospice care volunteer, the care for patients includes physical care, spiritual care and spiritual care.

1, physical care: relieve pain through the care of medical staff and their families, and enhance physical strength with a natural healthy diet.

2. Spiritual care: by establishing the concept of relieving fear, anxiety, complaints and troubles, they feel relieved and full of hope and confidence in the future world (after death).

3. Spiritual care (considered by Buddhism as Taoist care): looking back at life, seeking the meaning of life or establishing the value of life through religion and methods, such as immortality, ascension to heaven, and successful hospice care.

When the patient is dying, he sleeps longer and longer, and it is not easy to wake up. This is the result of metabolic changes in the body, and the patient's pain and discomfort will be relieved during sleep, so don't wake the patient reluctantly. Family members can spend more time with patients and interact with them when they are awake, for example, watching family photo albums and videos together and telling patients interesting stories about their families in the past.

Hearing is usually the last consciousness to disappear, so dying patients can still hear the voices of their loved ones when they are dying. Family members can always keep a dialogue with patients, often explain what they are doing, and dare to express their inner feelings without regret.

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The significance of hospice care

Hospice care meets the objective requirements of human pursuit of high-quality life. With the progress of human civilization, people put forward higher requirements for the quality of life and death. In order to let the patient get peace, calmness and comfort when he dies, let the family members leave no regrets and shadows after the patient dies.

Meanwhile, hospice care is a symbol of social civilization. Hospice care is just a social undertaking that allows patients to reach the other side of life with dignity and comfort.

Hospice care embodies lofty medical professional ethics. The core content of medical professional ethics is to respect the value of patients, including the value of life and personal dignity. As concrete implementers, medical personnel fully embody noble medical professional ethics, aiming at improving the value and quality of life.

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