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Hospice Commandments

1. Hospice is comfortable conditions and decent life to the very end.

2. We work with living people. The only difference between us and our patients is that they are  most likely to pass away before us.

3. We should not hurry up death, nor artificially prolong life. Everyone lives one’s own life. Nobody knows how long it will be. We merely accompany our patients in their last stage of life.

4. One must not take money from those who are leaving this world. Our work must be unselfish.

5. We cannot alleviate our patients’ pain and sufferings on our own. Only together with patients, their relatives and friends we derive strength.

6. Patients and their relatives are a single whole. Be considerate when entering a family. Don’t judge but help.

7. If a patient can’t be healed it does not mean that nothing can be done. What seems a trifle to a healthy person might be very significant for our patients.

8. Every person is unique. Don’t impose your beliefs upon a patient. Patients give us more than we can give them.

9. Accept everything from a patient, up to aggression. Try to understand a person before doing anything. Accept a person in order to understand one.

10. Be always ready for truth and sincerity. Tell the truth if a patient wants and feels prepared for it… But don’t rush.

11. Unplanned visit is no less valuable than a planned one. See a patient as frequently as possible. If you can’t visit one – give a call; if you can’t call, think of a patient and -  call up anyway.

12. Don’t hurry up when next to a patient. Don’t stand – sit beside. However little time you have, it is still enough to do your best. If you think you have done less than you could, talking with the relatives of the deceased will comfort you.

13. Hospice is the patients’ home. We are the hosts of the house. With this in mind, change your footwear and wash up your mug.

14. Your reputation is the reputation of the hospice.

15. The main thing you should know is that you know very little.