Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

It is important for older people to receive holistic care from an interprofessional team, so not just the physician but also nurses, social workers, physical therapists, and others. What are the most important things medical students or residents need to learn about treating the aging population?

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

However, researchers should pay more attention to potential risks in ongoing research, according to Ladybird Morgan, a registered nurse and social worker for the palliative care company Mettle Health and co-founder of The Humane Prison Hospice Project. “I There are definitely just basic physiological cardiac risks.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

These are usually chaplains or social workers providing bereavement services, and some hospices also have clinical psychologists or therapists as part of that team. Last year federal legislation was proposed that, if enacted, would have advanced the development of an evidence-based definition of “high-quality” bereavement care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If enacted, the legislation would remove co-pays and patient fees for advance care planning (ACP) services, allow social workers to conduct these conversations, expand provider education about associated billing codes, and improve reporting on barriers to ACP utilization. House of Representatives by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.).

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2023

We have nurses, a social worker and chaplains that donate their time. It’s definitely a much more collaborative system. But it’s a beautiful model because of the lack of complication. Our volunteers actually go through a really lengthy training program and are willing to do that.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

I started advocating pretty early on that I thought it would be really beneficial to form a separate, dedicated team of nurses, physicians, social workers and chaplains to take part in this care. What was your role in the process and how did you determine a need for these services? The numbers were pretty striking.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the last few years since I’ve graduated we’ve definitely seen more new programs popping up across the Northeast and in Massachusetts. That is the most important thing as we think about the need for nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers and case managers.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

A growing cadre of hospice and palliative care clinicians and experts are becoming proponents of psychedelic therapy when appropriate for individual patients — and their families, according to Ladybird Morgan, a registered nurse and social worker for the palliative care company Mettle Health and co-founder of The Humane Prison Hospice Project.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome to the podcast Alaine Murawski…Social worker and researcher, research study coordinator at Northwestern. One of my co-authors, Alaine Murawski, who’s a social worker, she has a lot of the similar experiences if you want to talk about it from a social worker perspective.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An objective person to talk to — such as a friend, counselor, social worker, or support group — can help, Bilkey says. We have a very strict definition of what it means to be a good person, and that is many times toxic,” he adds. “A The process will likely raise many emotional issues, possibly including retraumatization.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

Nurses and social workers are especially stretched thin. There’s definitely a bedside element to doulaship that can help fill in gaps of hospice staff time, as well as ease caregiver burden. What areas can death doulas offer hospices the most support? Merelli: We wanted to bridge the gap to death.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Social pain and loneliness. How definitions bind us, for example the division between chronic pain and palliative pain in much of the US. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. Definitions can be shackles. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Expanded definition of the IDT: The legislation will allow hospices, starting in 2024, to use marriage and family therapists (MFTs) and mental health counselors (MHCs) as part of the hospice interdisciplinary team. That cut was averted, protecting hospice patients and providers.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely. It’s very challenging from a hospitalist standpoint because I think there’s definitely a population of people who are not educated well about what are the outcomes when people go to subacute rehab, who benefits from that. Sweet Caroline. ” She didn’t know.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

We also have a home health aide, a chaplain, a social worker, a patient intake coordinator and a medical director. That’s definitely not ideal for anyone. The labor shortage certainly made hiring tough, because we can only offer so much in regards to pay. Luckily, we have been able to stay fully staffed.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

By definition, statute, and regulation, hospices provide interdisciplinary care driven by patient goals. Hospice patients receive care from a team that includes doctors, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual care providers, bereavement care professionals, and trained volunteers.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It was launched in 2011 for nurses and social workers in Africa to do formal training and palliative care but has now widened to include applicants such as spiritual care providers, music therapists, clinical officers, doctors and more.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Eric: Martha – breaking the definition for palliative care, no longer an extra layer of support. Attendee 14: I am most hopeful that as palliative caregivers, we will continue to authentically welcome the voices of our interprofessional team members, chaplains, social workers, and so we have true interprofessional collaboration.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Kaweah Health Hospice staff will oversee the hospice facility’s day-to-day operations and medical care, which will be provided by a team of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. The company cited swelling construction costs, rising inflation rates and the staffing shortage.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

So, it’s definitely an area of opportunity, where there’s just much more research that’s needed related to palliative care. It really plays such a huge benefit to the patient when you have a social worker or nurse come into the home, and they’re able to see things that they may not see in the office.

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1-800-HOSPICE

APRIL 11, 2023

Defining Palliative Care To appreciate the difference between palliative care and hospice , consider the definition of palliative care offered by the Center to Advance Palliative Care: 2 Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illness. All hospice is palliative, but not all palliative medicine is hospice.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

It is something that I have been involved with in a past life, but I was definitely not where I would consider myself a subject matter expert. The ACO REACH model of course is provider-based organizations that offer three types of participants.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The way that the physician describes, the way that the nurse describes, or the social worker, or the chaplain, all of them are going to help you identify what’s important to that patient that you should be tracking. That’s definitely one area that needs to have a seat at the table and be more integrated in.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. Being knowledgeable of possible ALS symptoms in advance can help you know what to expect and prepare for the inevitable transitions of the disease. What is ALS?

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We have medical social workers who support the patients. We definitely have people who were dwindling and really looking like they were coming to the end of life, and when they start getting these supportive services, they pop back up. And so the definition of family was broad. We have a psychiatrist. We have a dietician.

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Nurse.com

JUNE 14, 2022

4182 , the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Workers Act, which was introduced in May 2022. After taking this course, you should be able to: Review definitions, statistics, and trends of active shooter events. “It is vital that we prevent problems before they get worse.”. Nurses are also hoping the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Ultimately, it will help nurses, social workers, doctors, palliative care professionals and more to continue to be developed and made available into the community for providing services. It’s not that the benefit was bad or wrong, it’s just a question of whether it is really the right definition.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 25, 2022

4182 , the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Workers Act, which was introduced in May 2022. After taking this course, you should be able to: Review definitions, statistics, and trends of active shooter events. “It is vital that we prevent problems before they get worse.”. Nurses are also hoping the U.S.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team. Nathan: Yeah.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

Anecdotally, as I was driving from the facility here for this session, I [received] 14 text messages of people wanting to join us; medical resources, social workers that are coming word of mouth from the people that were here today. To get one of those six months ago, I had to spend my weekend on Indeed actively looking.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Definitely. We’re saying that whether it be across engineering to marketing, strategic partnerships, all the way to care team members from nurses, social workers, dietitians, and death doulas. Guaranteed Founder Jessica McGlory. The capital that we raised is really to be able to hire the absolute best people to join us.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 14, 2022

Actually I should have been a social worker. They have social workers for emotional, psychological support. That’s definitely a hurdle to get across. It, it definitely takes a special type of individual, you know, to be an end of life doula, be a caregiver that would see the end of life over and over again.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Most of the debate seems rather wonky, as honestly it feels like we are getting stuck in the weeds of semantics and definitions, like what counts as ACP versus in the moment decisions. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

There’s a lot written on grief, but so little is written on the loss experience and even a definition of loss is even lacking. Matthew: Well, I just happen to have a definition here, Eric. So we did focus though, Eric, and then I will stop, we did focus more on loss. It’s sort of like all of us in supportive care.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: Social worker, anybody. Malaz: Yeah, social determinants of health. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. And palliative care friendliness was definitely a very important factor to this. Welcome, Liz.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Documentation errors are definitely one of the top reasons why it brings regulatory attention to a hospice’s doorstep. We’re getting comments from nurses, some social workers, from chaplains saying, “I get comments back from the family saying, thank you. We measure all of those things.

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