An Admissions Registered Nurses presentation of hospice services to patients and families is individualized, sensitive to patient and family's fears, needs and goals, demonstrates a knowledge of guidelines for hospice eligibility and related HPCB programs, and appropriately identifies the level of hospice care. Able to articulate etiologies of symptom manifestation (nausea, vomiting, anorexia, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, diarrhea, constipation, mucositis, weakness/fatigue, dysphasia, edema, dyspnea, cognitive impairment, urinary retention, depression, delirium) related to a disease process.