A highly qualified, specially trained team of hospice professionals and volunteers work together to meet the physiological, psychological, social, spiritual, and economic needs of hospice patients and families facing terminal illness and bereavement.
Each of interdisciplinary members must maintain current license or certification in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

Core team members of a hospice program include:
• Patient’s Attending Physician
• Hospice Physician with palliative care training
• Registered Nurses demonstrating experience with pain and symptom management
• Social Workers with clinical experience appropriate to counseling and casework needs of the terminally ill
• Spiritual Counselors with appropriate education and experience
• Trained Volunteers, supervised by a coordinator
• Specialized Team members including:
• Therapists
• Dieticians
• Pharmacists
• Certified Nursing Assistants

Each member of the team must have a minimum education program in regards to:
• Purpose and focus of hospice care
• Team function and responsibility
• Communication skills
• Introduction to and review of physical, psychosocial, and spiritual assessment and symptom management
• Review of universal precautions
• Patient and family safety issues
• Consistent with applicable laws and regulations
• Stress management
• Grief and bereavement
• Confidentiality and patient rights

The interdisciplinary team care:
• Represents the current standard of practice and is provided in accordance with the code of ethics for each discipline
• Is goal directed
• Indicates consistency in observations, actions, interventions, and the patient’s plan of care
• Is provided and documented in ways that ensure accountability and patient confidentiality
• Meets current legal and regulatory requirements

Each member of the hospice interdisciplinary team recognizes and accepts a fiduciary relationship with the patient and family maintains professional boundaries with the patient and family and understands that it is the sole responsibility of the interdisciplinary team member to maintain appropriate agency and patient and family relationship.