Hospice News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. Older adults frequently utilize such services, often in skilled nursing facilities (SNF).
Minority Nurse
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. Talk about your role in nursing. How long have you worked in nursing?
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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.
Chicago Caregiving
OCTOBER 19, 2022
When staffing shortages impact patient care, advocates look out for patients’ best interests, says former nurse and current patient advocate Teri Dreher. The husband spent two days in the hospital, then was transferred to a skilled nursing facility that had deteriorated in quality over the past few years. He was desperate to get out.
The Nurse Break
AUGUST 6, 2022
While the concept of self-care has been around for a long time, and is intricately linked to the prevention of compassion fatigue and burnout, self-care has again been steadily gaining popularity in nursing circles as the challenges of the pandemic continue and its impact on staffing threaten the profession.
Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs
DECEMBER 4, 2022
The shocking reference at the start is from a 30-year longitudinal study published in 2020 which analysed the self-reported health status of care leavers between 1971 and 2011. Non-parental care in childhood and health up to 30 years later: ONS Longitudinal Study 1971-2011. Implications for NHS services. References. Murray, E et al.
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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