Frequently Asked Questions.
Below are a few common concerns we address regularly.
Please contact us today for a FREE 15-minute consultation at (973) 832-3077 or email us at leslee@rnpas.com and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
How can Hospice & Homecare Advocacy help?
Hospice & Homecare Advocacy works with clients and their families to help understand what all their healthcare options are and we help to educate them about what their rights are; this way, they are able to make the best-informed consent decisions for themselves. Hospice & Homecare Advocacy believes that Informed Consent is the ONLY consent. The healthcare system may be broken, but Hospice & Homecare Advocacy is passionate about effectively partnering with clients while joining their healthcare journey.
What is a Nurse Patient Advocate?
Nurse Advocates are fierce supporters of clients’ rights and assist during their Informed Consent decision making process. Nurse Advocates partner with clients and families to help educate, support, and guide them through life’s difficult healthcare decisions.
What is Informed Consent?
Informed consent is a collaborative process intended to bring clients and healthcare providers together to make decisions when more than one reasonable alternative exists. Nurses sign and bear witness that clients fully understand all of the risks and benefits before they sign the Informed Consent Form.
How do I obtain Hospice & Homecare Advocacy's consulting services; what happens next?
1. Call or email to schedule a free 15-minute Consultation. Please contact us today.
2. During the scheduled consultation, we discuss the most important issues and concerns.
3. Hospice & Homecare Advocacy helps to determine how we can achieve the client's Top 3 Goals.
4. Your contract will be emailed and, once signed and returned, will become an official Hospice & Homecare Advocacy Client (billing to be discussed on a case-by-case basis.)
5. Hospice & Homecare Advocacy will begin working on the Action Plans to achieve the Goals while working with the client and their family.
Does Hospice & Homecare Advocacy make home visits?
Hospice & Homecare Advocacy is able to make in-person visits, depending on logistics. Advocacy Session appointments are available either in-person, over the phone, or by video conferencing.
Your loved one lives out of state and you fear for their safety?
Don't feel helpless, Hospice & Homecare Advocacy is here to help. Call or email to schedule a FREE 15-minute consult to discuss action plans for how we can help. There are no problems too big or too small. Call today to discuss developing a safety plan.
Been feeling ‘blah’ or not feeling your best lately?
Notify your Primary Care Doctor about your symptoms first. Then, contact Hospice & Homecare Advocacy to see how we can help review ideas for Preventative Care with the goal to help you remain safe at home and stay out of the hospital.
Contemplating Facility Placement for your loved one?
Finding the right facility is a very delicate, complicated and complex decision and Hospice & Homecare Advocates partner with the family and other interdisciplinary collaborative team members (ie: PCP, SW, Case Managers, etc.) to advocate on behalf of your loved one. Hospice & Homecare Advocacy will be there every step of the way, ensuring your loved one is comfortable, that all of their needs are met, and that you are in constant communication with them. Contact Hospice & Homecare Advocacy today to see how they can help with this extremely difficult and challenging decision.
What are Advanced Directives?
In the event that you are not able to make medical decisions for yourself, an Advance Directive is a legal document that makes known your medical wishes and decisions about end-of-life care known ahead of time. There are two main elements in an advance directive— a Living Will and a durable Power of Attorney for health care.
What is a Living Will?
A Living Will is a document that specifies the specific types of treatments you would want (or don’t want) in the event that you are dying or permanently unconscious and are unable to make decisions for yourself.
What is a Durable Power of Attorney?
Also, know as POA, is the person who is able to legally speak on your behalf and who will honor your health wishes and decisions in the event that you are unable to make decisions for yourself. This can be broken down further and are known as Healthcare Proxy's and/or Financial Proxy's.
What to do after you set up your Advance Directive?
Make a card that you carry in your wallet indicating that you have an advance directive and notify your family and PCP where it is kept. Give your doctor a copy for your medical records and if you have to go to the hospital, give the staff a copy to include in your records.
Still have questions?
Contact us and we’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.