This chapter focuses on crisis and nursing intervention. Crisis is an acute time limited phenomenon experienced as an overwhelming emotional reaction to a stressful event or the perception of that event. It is the struggle for equilibrium and adjustment when problems are perceived as insolvable. Crisis intervention is a short term focuses on the solving of the immediate problem, aims to establish the former coping pattern and problem solving ability. Illness and hospitalization are often critical events that a child is faced with and the stress of it can affect all family members. Parents become upset, helpless, mentally and physically exhausted, and experience loss of sleep and disruption of daily routine during the hospitalization of their child. Hospice care, sometimes called end-of-life palliative care, comprehensive and compassionate in nature, and is designed for patients who are in the final stages of a terminal illness. Hospice care focuses not only on dying as peacefully, comfortably, and with as much dignity as possible, but also on living as fully as possible until death occurs.