Nursing Facility Hospice Care for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability or Related Conditions-5
Orientation and Training of Staff
Hospice personnel must assure that SNF, NF or ICF/IID staff who provide care to the hospice's clients have been oriented and trained in the hospice philosophy, including the hospice's policies and procedures regarding methods of comfort, pain control, symptom management, as well as principles about death and dying, how a person may respond to death, the hospice's client rights, the hospice's forms, and the hospice's record keeping requirements.