Running head: ACCEPTING DEATH BY FAMILIES 1 ACCEPTING DEATH BY FAMILY 2 Accepting Death of the Love One at the End of Life Name University Introduction The hospice development has advanced in the United States in the course of recent years. The concentration of hospice is on far reaching physical, psychosocial support and otherworldly care for ill-fated condition patients and their families. Hospice suppliers advance personal responsibility by shielding patients from wearisome intercessions and giving peaceful, painless consideration at home, at all possible moments, rather than the health facility (Dahlin, Coyne, & Ferrell, 2016). Hospice nurses give mind essentially under the rules of the Medicare Benefit Act of 1983 (Mor, & Teno, 2016), a government program that enables patients to die peacefully in their homes with their families and companions next to them. Palliative care is the interdisciplinary concern for painless, comfortable measures for the patient as the patient is approaching death in an honorable manner (Kelley & Morrison, 2015). This objective is to facilitate the patient to accomplish the most personal comfort level through pain relief, control of side effects and retaining autonomy. The hospice nurse must remain personable to the patient help maintain social and religious esteems and practices. The care that both hospice and palliative care nurses give is essentially similar to the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Role Delineation Study. Be that as it may, hospice and palliative care medical nurses’ differ in their planning and practice settings (In Ferrell, 2015). The challenge of the hospice nurses is to assist the family caring for terminally ill patient and cope with stressors, Additionally, the nurse assists them to maintain the integrity of their previous role that are important for them and the rest of the family. Roles Hospice and palliative care nurses work as a team with other disciplines. For example, doctors, social workers, chaplains, nurses, hospice aide, and clerk in the setting of an interdisciplinary group. The teams are holistically prepared experts and volunteers. The group combines their qualities to promote and address the issues of the patient and family encountering terminal illness and disease process . Hospice and palliative nurses distinguish themselves from other nurse associates in their forte practices and their resolute concentration on end-of-life care. Hospice and palliative care incorporates 24-hour nursing accessibility, administration of medications for comfort, maintaining comfort care by relieving physical pain and suffering. Also the nurses extend their care by providing family support. Familial systems assume different roles, which delineate their responsibility to the family structure. The coping roles are emotional and functional. When t ...