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Causes: Human Services
Mission:
The mission of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF) is to support quality of life in persons experiencing serious illness through advancing nursing excellence.
Programs: Nurses spend more time with patients who are facing the life limiting illnesses than any other member of the healthcare team. When faced with a serious illness, people turn to their nurse or nurse practitioner for education, information, and guidance. Nurses are intimately involved in all aspects of palliative care. Through their care and interventions, nurses address the complex needs that face individuals and their families. Nursing professionals work in hospitals, homes, long term care facilities, clinics, schools, prisons and hospices. They are the primary team members who coordinate, assess, direct and evaluate patient care needs that arise during the illness experience. With their knowledge about the physical, psychosocial and spiritual dimensions of life-limiting illnesses, nurses are vital team members in assuring the patients' goals of care are met and finality of life and dignity is preserved.
Nurses need to stay current with best practices to deliver optimal bedside care. HPNF meets that need by providing nursing professionals with
Need to fund current programs: $12,000. Need for new program $44,000.