This calculator is designed to give the equivalent percentage of an hour as related to a certain amount of conventional minutes. It also determines the amount of decimal minutes in hundredths of an hour. For example, 30 (standard) minutes is half an hour, 50 hundredths of an hour, or .5 hours, and is 50 decimal minutes.100 decimal minutes make an hour, as does 60 conventional minutes.t also determines the amount of decimal minutes in hundredths of an hour. For example, 30 (standard) minutes is half an hour, 50 hundredths of an hour, or .5 hours, and is 50 decimal minutes.
The death of a hospice patient is not an emergency. Nothing must be done immediately. The signs of death include such things as no breathing, no heartbeat, release of bowel and bladder, no response, eyelids slightly open, pupils enlarged, eyes fixed on a certain spot, no blinking, jaw relaxed and mouth slightly open. A hospice nurse will come to assist you if needed or desired. If not, phone support is available.
No one can predict the moment of death. But physicians and nurses involved in end-of-life care know that certain symptoms are usually associated with the body's shutting down. These signs of approaching death are specific to the natural dying process (apart from the effects of particular illnesses the person may have). Not all dying symptoms show up in every person, but most people experience some combination of the following in the final days or hours: