Hospice Staff Anxiously Prepare for the Arrival of a Complex Patient | The Hospice 

My son passed away a few months ago in the Arthur Rank Charity hospital. He had very aggressive cancer which destroyed and took him from us in a short seven week period. He was so brave, and managed to marry his sweetheart in that time as well as make provision for their little two year old. I can’t fault the tender care that ALL the staff there gave him, as well as support for us ,his family. They said it was a privilege to nurse him, and he became quickly attached to his nurses . I thank ALL hospice carers all over, as it isn’t a job for just anyone , but from the bottom of my heart, I’m so glad my son passed on from there so peacefully and pain free. He was so brave all through his ordeal which paralysed him at the end bless him.

I'm a Hospice volunteer..I have patients who have no family and we do vigils so no one will ever die alone. We stay with them til the very end.

I really admire the work these people do. Making the end of someone's life as comfortable and painless as possible is probably one of the kindest things a human can do. We shouldn't take this for granted and we should compensate these people very well.

I have severe COPD & just released from hospital 2 was ago. The Drs suggested I get in touch with hospice, and I did speak to someone about it before I left hospital. I am shocked and saddened that I am preparing to die. I don’t want to die as I have too much to live for! Well, I told my Dr that I am not ready. I continued with my plans to go to our house in Florida with my husband & will take one day at a time. So far I feel ok and taking my meds. I will continue my life as usual & when I feel that death is beckoning me I will seek hospice. Copd is final. I am 75 & just have my husband. My son, an only child passed away 4 years ago. My dear friends either passed or moved. In a way I wish the Dr. didn’t tell me about the short time I have left. I know it’s true, but I still can’t believe it. I understand that hospice will give me wonderful care. Yet, I want to live!

Nurses, care assistant working in hospice, are very special. You are made of gold ! May the Lord bless you all !

Bless these unsung heroes. They perform a very difficult job with the highest of care and integrity, helping those who need it the most.

Hospice volunteer here too. Best. Thing I ever did. Those patients and their family’s became my loved ones too.

It was my wonderful privilege to be a hospice RN

I was a hospice chaplain for 10 years; worked with inpatient care and home care. Loved that work.

My brother passed away in an hospice they did a fantastic job a beautiful ending RIP

God bless David, his family and those taking care of him!

I could never work in a place like this. I would be crying my heart out every single day !!

Oh Bless Him an the Hospice He's so young xoxo

such a blessing to have a reminder of not to take life for granted. thank you for sharing.

My mom too was assisted by hospice and I can't say enough good about them.

My husband was in St Joseph hospice in Hackey. They were wonderful. My children were 14, 11 and 9. They looked after all of us. This was 20 years ago but I will be for ever grateful for their help and kindness

It's truly a sad advent seeing your love ones have uncurible illness. Nothing you could do, but comfort them until their passing. 😢😢😢

hospice is amazing. Most of them are really wonderful. They include the family in the end care of the patient, and provide a more relaxed atmosphere. Hospice was wonderful with my dad.

My mom died in a hospice peacefully in her sleep Rest In Peace mom 1933 - 2019

My bestfriend was only 40 years old when she died 3 years ago and when she went into hospice care and I went to see her everyone was amazing but inside I could not help feeling this emptiness in my heart ,just looking around and see so many people that would never go back home or get to live their lives was just terrible sad for me to see..Lucia Rest in Peace not a day goes by that we don't think about u and miss U ..I love u Lu Lu

my thoughts and prayers go out to all who are suffering with illnesses and the staff at these hospitals have nothing but my admiration love you all guys 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️

Sadly my 3 year old cousin passed away Oct 2017 due to Brain Cancer. Hospice was awesome with her. Very caring and helpful. Very patient with friends and family going to see her in her last days as well.

I would rather die at home an have hospice come out to my home. That's what my grandmother did and they were able to come out and manage her pain and still take care of her in the little bit of time she had left and she enjoyed being at home and we enjoyed being able to be with her.

God Bless you David.

These places are so warm kind and so very much needed

I was a Hospice volunteer for 2 years after I myself came out of a 16 day coma in 2012. When I had respiratory failure, my family was told there was nothing else they could do. But the Heavenly Lord had other plans for me. When I became a Hospice volunteer I never imagined how tough but yet so rewarding it would be to sit next to someone that was in the process of dying. There's people that have noone to be with them when they die and that's so heart breaking. I had a patient that his family refused to be with him when they were told ge was dying. At 1st I couldn't understand how someone could be so cold blooded and refuse something like this. But then I realized it wasn't my job to criticized noone and that God had assigned me to be there for this patient. When patient took his last breath, I cried uncontrollably and hugged him Oh so hard. The last hug I gave him I'm 100% sure he felt because his body started relaxing and his face had the most peaceful expression I will never forget.

My dad just died and had hospice. It's incredibly sad but important for the patient...i watched my dad die in only one month of diagnosis of cancer....i have no dad anymore and it feels like a dream, not real. Sadly it is. Rip Dad miss you already....

Very sad but encouraging to know that there is angels among us . God bless you all with the awesome job you are doing .

I am so sorry about your so n, we lost our daughter in april to breast cancer, she left a 13 year old. Our hearts are breaking. She stayed at home, but hospice was a big help!

They are beautiful facilities. I'm thankful that I could care for mom in her own home until she took her last breath. 15 years and I still think about her everyday.

i get chills watching and knowing this is the last ride he will take the last the room man end of life is terrible but this lady and her staff deal in this everyday . i remember my grandmas last few hours and hoping she would just sit up snap out of it asking the nurse if anybody ever comes back from this point , then it was over RIP grandma

They call nurses “sister” in the uk. Hospice was so good to my dad in his final illness. Usually in the USA the patient stays in his own home the family gets support too with knowing what to expect. It’s a great idea.

Our local hospital closed their hospice ward. This means that patients have to be transported 40 miles away to the nearest hospice facility. Its heart breaking.

As I am getting ready to found and direct a new inpatient hospice I am very interested in such episodes. Thank you for uploading.

Bless him and all the staff

My dad just passed away suddenly at his doctors office. My mom was suppose to be in hospice care at home 15yrs. ago but the hospice ppl were no where in sight. When she was screaming out one day I had the ambulance take her back to the hospital. It was a terrible experience!

It is so nice to see people taking care of their fellow person.

Thank God for Hospice care. Who dedicate they're life's to ease the pain and suffering of so many people. God Bless

God bless you all..you are angels on earth all these wonderful staff in these hospices do an amazing job ❤❤🙏❤❤

My sister had Lewy Body Dementia for 7 years. Round the clock care, at her house in Ridgefield, Ct. Diapers, etc!. Her last 3, were at The Residence, an assisted living facility, in Darien, CT. God bless the whole medical staff, doctors, nurses caregivers, and hospice, who helped my sister , at the end.

Nurses are angels in training. I so love nurses for the help they have given me in my extreme time of need. Never forget the love.. peace

My Dad was cared for by Hospice in his home..The Hospice Nurses were great..Home is where he wanted to be, as his time was nearing an end..My Mom,my Sister and I were with him as he passed..

Rough work. Such rough work. Takes special people to give the right care and support

Thank you for your care.

God Bless you all, such wonderful people- so young and brave young man and his fantastic family

My aunt passed away at the beginning of the year in her late 40’s of lung cancer, and my grandma passed away three months ago of a stroke (I did not visit her at hospice but I saw her at a viewing, which changed me a lot emotionally) and visiting her in hospice gave me a whole new view of death and it also taught me how to confront it in a more mature way. Weeks after both incidents, I would be terrified to watch videos like this since they gave me die hard anxiety, but now I’m learning to explore the topic of death and teaching myself to be less scared. Caitlin Doughty helped me a lot, as well.

Hospice is amazing! My mom passed away so peacefully thanks to the excellent care of the doctor and nurses at the hospice facility.

Thankyou....🙏🏼🙏🏼

Superb show i can watch in the evening from the coziness of my own home. Thsnk you.

Great job to the staff

Very nice staff thank you

So sad God bless the the Family

GOD BLESS THEM ALL

My biological mother passed three years ago in October at the age of fifty. I was in denial about her dying until they brought n hospice. Once hospice was brought n she died three days later. Rip Angie. They were very nice people

i felt so blessed to be a hospice volunteer for many many years . i was touched by my patients visiting each one of them and growing close to them . i sometimes felt i got more out of it than my patients did . i was amazed how some families never came to visit either so i can only hope i made a little difference in there lives .

Thank you Angel's. WE love you.

God bless all hospice staff !

I work in a nursing home. At age 17, i’m a CNA and I love my job. The hardest part of this job is watching residents who you’ve grown to love, to be friends with, almost like family, deteriorate. Three residents have passed so far, and i’ve only worked as a CNA March-present (July as of right now). The last one, her name was Judith. Weeks before, she was able to do everything by herself. She would walk around, and sit by the nurses station. She never talked, but I remember her asking me to sit with her. She said it in this small voice, and I told her that the second I am done with this, I will. But then we had an altercation and a fall. I forgot about it. She went to bed. Then, her cancer spread. She became bed-bound, and she never talked. I’d always go in and change her, make sure she atleast drank something. One day I realized her body was cleaning out, preparing to die. Every day, id still sit by her bed. Hold her hand, and when she thought she was somewhere else, I went with it. She believed me. I’d been doing a routine with her, and the last night, I chatted with her and told her goodnight. That I loved her and to be good. She said she will try, and goodnight. Judith passed away shortly after my shift was over at 11. Listen to your residents. Treat them with love. She had family, but no one came to see her. You need to be the rock for these people, the stability they need to pass on. Update: It is now September. 6 have passed, and another is on her death bed. It’s sad, I understand that. But these people are dying. Imagine how you’d feel if your family made you live in a place you do not recognize, a place that definitely does not feel like a home. For many, their family is now the CNA’s, PCA’s, and Nurses that work day in and day out. We have a family to come home to at the end of the work day. They don’t.

Hospice is the best place to be, there cared for,god bless david, they care about there patients

Hospice staff are SPECIAL...

Hospice is a beautiful place they take care of u

Thank God for Hospice RN'S, volunteers and Palliative care Physicians.

My dying father never went to hospice care. He went to a nursing home until they lacked the ability to care for him, and then he went to the hospital for his final days. I wish he had gone to hospice. The nursing home people were not very nice to him, and they always forgot his medicine. He was in pain a lot there.

Hospice workers are amazing people .

Imagine being told, we can send you to a hospice if you want. Thats so sad

So young!

I think I would rather be at home, surrounded by the things that bring me comfort and the people that I know...

Hospice is amazing

Hospice is a wonderful to deal with. I did private care for about eight years and I did not work for hospice, but I worked beside of them for my patients sake. They make a very sad situation a little bit better to deal with plus they can get you counseling after your love one is gone. And sometimes that’s very important to do. I never worked with not one hospice person that wasn’t a special loving caring individual. I always have told people never hesitate for at the end hospice is a great answer to a sad situation. If you’re reading this chances are you have someone sick at home. I pray for the sick daily. I myself had cancer 31 years ago and I thought I was home Scott free of ever having cancer again. Well here I go again but at least if I don’t get better I do know who to turn to.Prayers for the family and the patience and trust me God keeps his hands around you all when times are bad. They’re going to a better place

Hospice used to scare me. It made me think that you were “giving up” and relinquishing your life. I had witnessed my coworker under hospice care and he looked like he had passed days ago. I was so distraught but the smiley nurse told me that he was happy on pain meds. At the time, I felt like they drugged him up good without actually providing care to sustain his life. It made me upset and made me resent hospice. However, I was naive and in major denial that he was dying from cancer. There was nothing left to do. Not too long later, my family and I had to endure my mother dying from cancer. We refused hospice care. It was the same skewed mentality that getting hospice meant giving up the fight. My mother also wasn’t ready to die but she was so miserable. Looking back, her experience dying would’ve been improved had we sought hospice care. She ended up dying in the hospital traumatically and on life support for the 2nd time. She had one challenge after another after another. Her quality of life was severely diminished for close to a year. Sometimes you have to know when it’s better to stop fighting and it does not mean you are giving up. Had we sought hospice, her passing would’ve been more humane. She could’ve passed as comfortable and painless as possible. I do have sadness and regrets but a much better understanding of hospice care.

Gruesome Death awaits us all. Brilliant that you can help the grievously afflicted and their relations as well. Cheers!

Ward Sister reminds me of Sarah Ferguson ! Lol Great episode. Nothing like hospice ! Makes many differences in many lives every day !

Beautiful ward sister😘

15 years ago my grandmother chose hospice over more treatment. She wanted to spend her last days with her only great grandchild (my daughter). She stayed at my parents a little over a month. Jan 2, 2004 she passed which was my dad's birthday.

Ambuuuullaaannnceeeeeeeeee transfers

How can this video have a channel that doesn't exist.

Palliative care Nurses are wonderful.

Special humans

Positive place

My sister died the first day in hospice January 2019.

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This channel is not available in the US. I was able to watch the video, but when I clicked on the website it says it's unavailable 😩

Hospice is GREAT👑.I took care of a patient that was dealing with bone, brain and breast cancer .her sister took great care of her.I was and still am careing for these patients. Anyway her sister did not want anything to do with hospice! Because it meant to her that the fight her sister had been fighting is done and cancer had won.I SPOKE TO THE PATIENT AND TOLD HER THAT SHE WASN'T GIVING UP AND HOW IF GOD CALLED HER HOME EARLY WOULDN'T SHE WANT TO BE IN A PEACEFUL PLACE WERE YOUR FAMILY IS ALSO TAKEN CARE OF.AND SHE'S NOT. GIVING UP AND THIS PLACE WOULD RESPECTIVELY FOLLOW AND NOT CHANGE HOW IF IT OCCURS HER DEATH WOULD BE HOW SHE WANTS IT.SHE CAN HAVE THAT FINAL SAY.inside of death is beautiful. My patient died with grace. THANKS HOSPICE .

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There is a show about everything isn't there.... so strange.

they were wonderful with my brother in law !!

Leave me at home with all my pain i told my wife if i get cancer or a fatal disease.😔

If I had the choice of which hospice to go to it'd be something like this place. ellenor hospice.

Our NHS is the best in the world!

Do you hospice workers(past and present) ever witness the visiting of previously deceased family members who've come to help to he patients cross over? ..or sense their presence by reaction of the dying in their last hours?

All women. This looks lovely xo

My sister not get hug her son he passed west coast state she at work ugh sad 😪 she feels guilty she could have helped know it s painful everyday n holidays

Who among you reading this, would want live like this, definitely not me....but kudos to him...

Is he a MND patient ?

Did David survive

Somehow “stitched into place” sounds so nice. Even though I know what it means. British accents for ya lol

What is the burnout rate for these care givers? Do they have safety net counselling sessions/ debriefings regularly? The title is a bit slanted. These should be professional people and given such respect. You have highlighted the sisters comments out if context to make her appear incompetent, but to her credit she realized what you were up to and refocused on her professionalism. (Or are you trying to explore if she was on the verge of burnout?).

God this is typical for nurses who never worked with someome having a tracheotomy....it's so easy to change tubes, even if a stiched one comes out , there's nothing to fear. Just put a new tube in right away . If the hole already tightened it needs a little pressure, maybe a 90 degree angle; then turn and voila your in again. But he won't stop breathing if the tube is out. He surely will stop breathing if no one changes the tube and it becomes sticky and clotted. Saw patients pass out and stop breathing because they had not changed their tubes for ages...

My mum who was a nurse for over 20 years When she found out she had terminal cancer she said "Please promise me one thing" Don't let me die in hospital" So be brought her home to die

What happened to David?