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.
Many patients may have pain and other serious symptoms as illness progresses. Hospice staff receives special training to care for all types of physical and emotional symptoms that cause pain, discomfort and distress.