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Longleaf Medical Director: Hospice Care Needs a ‘Revolution’ 

Hospice News

In 2014, I made the jump fully to hospice. The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. Our definitions of what value needs to be more nuanced. In 2014, I made the jump fully to hospice. That’s the bare bones of it. So it really got me thinking.

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The ultimate nursing guide to sepsis

The Nurse Break

Regardless of which specific tool has been recommended in your local policies and procedures, there are overlapping clinical red flags which indicate that a patient may be experiencing sepsis which include (Cawcutt & Peters, 2014): Fever or hypothermia indicating that an immune / inflammatory response has been mounted. 10.1016/j.jen.2014.12.007.

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