Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

Hospice services can be provided at home or in inpatient facilities with staff experienced in end-of-life care. Be Present Presence and authentic listening create a safe space that allows for honest, open communication and allows all parties to feel understood.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. But really how are we talking about that as a team?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control. Also, nurse supervisors can share survey scores and comments with the hospice IDG. To be honest, the insight of the chaplains and social workers was always impressive.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Speech may or may not be present. In keeping with the goals of hospice, to maintain patient dignity and comfort, care can be in the patient’s own home, a personal care home, a nursing home, the home of a relative, and sometimes in a hospital or inpatient hospice unit. When Is It Time for Hospice Care?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’m a geriatrically trained social worker and it was my grandmother. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. They’re older and frailer than a nursing home client is. Greg: Yeah, great question.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

I once had a patient in the ICU at Moffitt who had had a stroke and was facing, not recovered, going to a nursing home with a feeding tube. People would present with horrible opportunistic infections, not just pneumocystis pneumonia, but CNS infections with toxoplasmosis and wasting syndrome, of course.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. So the first order on all POLST forms is around code status.

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Shining Light Hospice

JANUARY 6, 2022

Symptoms present as hand weakness or loss of hand and finger dexterity. The hospice team typically includes a Physician, Nurses, Aides, Social Worker, and a Chaplain. Although symptoms begin in the head and neck region, other muscle groups are eventually involved leading to patient paralysis. Spinal Onset.

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