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Summer of Respite 2022

Today's Caregiver

Since 2001 we have spent each summer sharing tips and techniques to help caregivers take the respite Now that the summer is in full swing, it is time to consider how to give a break to the most important person in your loved one’s life – you.

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Study Compares Moral Injury (PMI) in Combat Vets and Hospital Frontline Workers

Daily Nurse

11, 2001, and 2,099 health care workers (HCWs) working during the COVID-19 pandemic found similar levels of potential moral injury (PMI), with 46.1% A study comparing 618 military veterans who deployed to a combat zone after Sept.

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Nurses Secure The Spot For Most Trusted Profession 22nd Time In A Row

Diversity Nursing

That was in 2001, when firefighters earned a record-high 90% rating in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Gallup polls are in and f or more than two decades, Nurses have achieved the highest ethics rating from Americans. According to the findings, the 79% of U.S.

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Citing Rising Staffing Costs, Stillwater Hospice and Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice Merge

Hospice News

The hospice operates an inpatient facility that has served upwards of 10,000 patients since opening in 2001. Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice (KHCH) has merged with Stillwater Hospice amid mounting financial pressures.

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Accessible Remote Care Management IntroducesDANA™ Brain Vital

Accessible Home Health Care

About Accessible Remote Care Management and Accessible Home Health Care Founded in 2001, Accessible Home Health Care provides compassionate home health care to support families and keep seniors safe in the homes they love.

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Sangre de Cristo Taps New CEO, YoloCares Names Palliative Care Director

Hospice News

She served as director of compliance for Sangre de Cristo Hospice & Palliative Care from 2001 to 2009. New CEO Takes Reigns at Sangre de Cristo Community Care Colorado-based Sangre de Cristo Community Care named Melinda Egging as its new CEO.

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Nursing Profession Tops Gallup Poll

Minority Nurse

Since 1999, when the Gallup poll began producing the rankings annually, nurses have appeared at the top of the list (except 2001 when firefighters earned the top spot).

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Caregiver Compensation

Chicago Caregiving

The program started in 2011 for post-September 11, 2001 veterans. Many veterans’ caregivers qualify for compensation with a little-known Veterans Affairs program.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.

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Nurses Take Top Spot for Honesty and Ethics in Gallup Poll

Nurse.com

With the exception of one year — in 2001 when firefighters topped the list after 9/11 — nursing has outpaced all other professions since it was added as a category more than two decades ago.

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Full Practice Authority Gains Ground in 26 States: What This Means for Nurse Practitioners 

Minority Nurse

Arizona, she notes, moved to FPA in 2001. In the long struggle to gain full practice authority (FPA), nurse practitioners (NPs) can point to notable advances in the last few years. Now, patients in more than half of the states, the District of Columbia, and two U.S.

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Meet Nancy Colobong Smith, American Nephrology Nurses Association’s President-Elect 2023-24

Minority Nurse

My first certification was the Certification in Nephrology Nursing (CNN) which I earned in 2001 because I knew I wanted to be a nephrology nurse long term.

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Accessible Home Health Care Introduces WizeCare to Suite of Technology Solutions

Accessible Home Health Care

Founded in 2001, Accessible Home Health Care provides compassionate home health care to support families and keep seniors safe in the homes they love.

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Trailblazers in Nursing History: Chinese-American Nurse Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo, RN (Part One)

Minority Nurse

On December 26, 1941, Japanese Army troops entered the hospital, interned the foreign patients and staff, and turned the hospital into a Japanese Military Hospital (Copp, 2001).

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Opioids May Improve Survival for Hospice Patients

1-800-HOSPICE

2001 Apr 1;21(4):282-9. It is well established that hospice correlates with survival improved by days to months among the subset of patients who meet admission criteria. 1-12 Of course, the goal of hospice is neither to shorten nor prolong life.

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Spotlight Q&A on our High Peaks Hospice RN and Army Veteran Kathy McNulty

High Peaks Hospice

I retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2001.” In honor of Veteran’s Day we would like to share a Spotlight Q&A on our High Peaks Hospice RN Kathy McNulty. Her dedication and service is quite impressive and we are grateful to have her on our team.

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Employment Considerations for Long Term Care Facilities under the Biden-Harris Administration

Healthcare Law Insights blog

To support this VBP expansion, CMS cited its own Reports to Congress on the Appropriateness of Minimum Nurse Staffing Ratios in Nursing Homes from 2001. Background .

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How To Boost Your Home Health Nursing Orientation For Free

The Productive Home Health Nurse

billion in 2001 to $18.3 This is great, you have your home health nursing orientation and preceptor time all next week…. Killin’ it! Wait, both in the same week…that doesn’t sound quite right….

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UPDATES: Latest Information on Coronavirus

Comforcare Home Care

11, 2001 (2,977) — combined. UPDATES: Latest Information - What you need to know. Published from aarp.org. Some pharmacists can now prescribe Paxlovid. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now allowing state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe the COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid.

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Top Home Health Nurse Documentation Updates for 2022 That Actually Affect Your Paycheck

The Productive Home Health Nurse

billion in 2001 to about $18.3 What a year for home health nurse documentation and nurses… Our COVID song continues…. PDGM has taken over home health nurse documentation…. Home health nurse documentation timeframes are on speed….

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Ep.6: How to Build the Right Environment for Client Referral Growth

Home Care Pulse

And so I went on a quest to find a framework and created one and in 2001 opened up home care sales. Ep.6: