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

Minority Nurse

The quality of the presenters is excellent, and the content is evidence-based, relevant, and up to date. 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. I attend ANNA’s National Symposium and Fall Meeting whenever I can.

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Promoting true evidence-based practice using critically appraised topics (CATs).

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

A CAT aims to present research in a way that is accessible and allows nurses to read and adopt the findings in order to influence their practice. Foster et al (2001) Critically Appraised Topics (CATs): one method of facilitating evidence-based practice in physiotherapy. So how does it work? Practice Nurse, March 2016, 32-34.

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Understanding the Mourning Process Through the Four Tasks of Mourning

Hospice of the North Coast

Some common examples observed among the bereaved include retaining the deceased’s possessions in an obsessive way, immediately removing all reminders of the deceased, selectively forgetting the deceased, or discussing the deceased in present tenses, and describing stigmatized death (e.g., suicide, overdose) as accidents, etc.

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Canada’s New Long-Term Care Standards- Accountability & Risk Management on a Mission

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

However, unless safety and quality drivers such as LTC Standards are closely adhered-to and outcome accountability present, risk management practices will fail. 4] We need effective, evidence-based common Canadian LTC Standards, with the required funding for implementation.

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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 documentation is based on your already gathered information in their file along with statements from speaking to their support system or those who were present at their time of death. Not to mention that Medicare’s expenditures for home health care nearly doubled from $9.7 billion in 2012.

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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. And so through that experience, I really realized that we, as a profession of marketers, didn’t have a framework of, of how do you market, how do you market to docs and, and get those referrals?

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

” You can look back to an ACP paper in 2001 saying that the only way geriatrics survive is that we have to do this, and this doesn’t feel like a new conversation. She was actually the one who wrote the 2001 or 2004 ACP article, which also there was a series of articles lamenting there won’t be enough geriatricians.