Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Lowenthal recently presented research at the American Geriatrics Society Meeting in which she found that many residents are unfamiliar with the needs of older patients, despite the large numbers of seniors in need of care.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Let’s face it: someday, you may need a professional reference, an introduction to a key individual at a facility you’re interested in, some priceless career advice, a mentor, or maybe someone to serve as your preceptor during your nurse practitioner program. There are many ways in which relationships can benefit you and your nursing career.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

This reality presents a valuable opportunity for palliative care to directly support patients by focusing on their lifestyle and goals.” In the face of staffing shortages, especially of nurses and social workers, telehealth also helps coordinate visits with those team members, Schell explained. You need nurses.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wu added that with only 10 members, the palliative care team is “small but mighty” and includes physicians, a nurse practitioner, a nurse social worker, a pharmacist, a chaplain and an administrator.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. AAHPM’s chief medical officer, told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

A lack of trained hospice and palliative care professionals in rural regions also presents a barrier to access. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are essential in covering the gap in providers in rural communities,” Hoover said.

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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?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

Presently, 80% of CareConnectMD’s patient population is in the long term care setting, according to Phan. This includes frequent visits by a nurse practitioner, regular contact between care managers and patients, and oversight by a physician. Most DCEs expect a seamless transition into ACO REACH.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center.

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The Bucket-List Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. Julie Mullins, George’s hospice nurse, worked closely with him to ensure his symptoms were well controlled and he felt well on the day of his party. Julie Mullens presents George with a gift from the care team. Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The third is moving away from a very medicalized approach and focusing on what conversations help us get informed on trauma in the past and present.” We have a duty to look out for this in anyone, a social worker, physician, nurse or patient. Snyder previously served as a hospice nurse for 23 years.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

And if we don’t make that happen, those patients end up in the hospital or they end up in nursing homes. They’re saying that you can’t have inpatient care because the patient is dying or doesn’t need the care of a physician or the care of a nurse. I propose that is the social worker.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

Nursing is a second career for Derek J. Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. His second book, Letter to a Hospice Nurse , celebrates the lives of hospice patients and gives a format for surviving family and friends to process grief. Meet Derek Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, and hospice nurse in Colorado.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

Our clinicians, especially our social workers and nurses that work in care management, try very hard to connect people to the services that they need because it is overwhelming as a family member to understand the different pieces of care and how they are financed. People want to do the care, but it’s just really hard.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2024

As a hospice nurse, a challenging and unavoidable aspect of your role is navigating end-of-life conversations. In this article, we’ll explore the challenges of these conversations and some key strategies to help new hospice nurses. I like to ask the patient and family if it’s ok to speak openly with everyone present.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Last year VNA Health Group enhanced its dementia care training programs for social work and nursing staff, with an emphasis on its home health patients. VNA Health also has plans to possibly add psychiatric advanced practice nurses into their clinical teams, though this initiative is in its early stages. “I

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition. Alex: Great.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 25, 2023

A multidisciplinary team can include your doctor, spiritual counselor, social worker, and bereavement counselor to name a few. These are settings that reside outside of the hospital and can include skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient rehabilitation centers and home care agencies.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

If we look at some of the decks and slide presentations on the Medicare Advantage carve-in, going back to 2018, it’s the same information, and we’re still talking about impacting change. We’ve heard from the [Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)] on the 20% payment cap reduction.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Participants are typically those certified by a state to require nursing level of care (which can be home-based), and need assistance with certain activities of daily life (ADLs). Case in point, Virginia-based Goodwin Hospice formed a collaboration with end-of-life doula provider Present for You LLC roughly three years ago.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Forensic Nursing and Domestic Violence – a brief introduction. What is a forensic nurse and how do you become one? A forensic nurse is a Registered or Advanced Practice Nurse who has received specific education and training. Written by Tracey Markham. If you want to read the FULL original article go here.

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AJN Off the Charts

JANUARY 17, 2023

If a nurse fails to recognize signs of trauma-related distress, such patients may be negatively labeled as unintelligent, argumentative, in denial, or as having poor insight, coping, or emotion-regulation skills. Ask if they would like a safe family member or friend to be present. Be present and attentive.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 31, 2023

When you’re a nurse in the process of finding a new position, there’s much to think about during the complex job search journey, from your resume and cover letter to interview prep and negotiating salaries, but one thing many nurses overlook is always having a reliable set of professional references on tap whom you can call when you need them.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. I made my way through the ranks as a CNA, then a registered nurse, and then a nurse practitioner and now, I’m in a leadership position.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that.

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The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

During a conversation with Nancy one of our nurses, Teresa VanCamp Dickson learned that she felt sad that her mother wouldn’t be with her for her wedding in June. . Teresa immediately spoke with Heather Randall, a social worker, about Nancy’s situation.

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Healthy Workforce Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

When I worked as a staff nurse, there were times when I was treated poorly by a patient prompting me to file an incident report but honestly, it was so complicated that I justified not doing it. Rinse and repeat with millions of nurses. Justifying their behavior coupled with a complicated reporting system led me to avoid reporting it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. Just there’s a lot of intense decision making that happens after patients are discharged to skilled nursing facilities.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In 2013, CHC won the Global Partnership Award presented for a model partnership that others should look at.” “It had been twinned with the Palliative Care Association of Uganda, and quickly became a very successful and engaged partnership. Title transfer In 2014, based on input from leaders of U.S.-based

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The Nurse Break

MAY 29, 2022

Meet Jackie Ashmore, ermha365 Chief Operating Officer and former Nurse Unit Manager at Thomas Embling – a high-security forensic mental health hospital in Victoria. Read on to learn all about nursing security and forensic patients in one of the most unique and under talked about areas of nursing! Write for us.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. They can be nurse if you want to.

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

Hospice teams typically include primary healthcare physicians, specialists such as pain management doctors, nurses, home health aides (if applicable), social workers, counselors, chaplains/spiritual advisors, therapists, and volunteers. Create space for dialogue and topics that will be pertinent throughout the journey ahead.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 18, 2022

Nurses provide emotional, physical, and psychological care to patients every day. However, these interactions put them at risk for crossing the lines of professional boundaries in nursing. For instance, as a hospice nurse, you spend a significant amount of time with your patients and their families.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The social workers and nurses you interact with may get busy, and they may also interact with your competitors. This could lead to community panel discussions, joint presentations, and cross-company in-services. Bring evidence and tangible successes that you’ve brought to clients.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The social workers and nurses you interact with may get busy, and they may also interact with your competitors. This could lead to community panel discussions, joint presentations, and cross-company in-services. Bring evidence and tangible successes that you’ve brought to clients.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. Could it be the bedside nurse? It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions.

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