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Breaking the Silence: The Mounting Need for Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

Hospice News

A 2015 study analysis published in the journal BMC Public Health found that nearly two-thirds of the female home care workforce experiences some type of workplace violence annually. Victims battle an ever-present landmine of potential triggers as they reach the end of their lives. Sexual harassment and aggression impacted 27.6%

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A Critical Perspective on ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policies for Violence and Aggression in Nursing

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

The phrase seemingly originated in 1982 1 and has remained in use to the present day – promoted as the key strategy needed to eliminate the violence and aggression risk and to keep staff safe. 2,3,4 Although, in 2015, 20% of nursing staff in Scotland reported incidents of physical violence within the previous 12 months.

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5 Steps to Engage Employees in Home Care Digital Transformation

AlayaCare

JFK once said that “change is the law of life , ” and “those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”. Tell that to teams of people who grow quite used to one way of doing things at work… who are so accustomed to those systems that it’s become an ingrained routine. who are told that all of that is about to change.

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A Non-Expert with Expertise: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Testimony from Highly Sophisticated Professional Employees in Federal Court

Healthcare Law Insights blog

And either designation presents potentially significant risks. Courts must consider whether the testimony relies on expertise or specialized knowledge, and whether the facts presented are a result of mere tabulation versus extensive calculations. 13-1664 (JRT/JSM), 2015 WL 5521751, at *12 (D. emphasis added). Burlington N.

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5 Steps to Engage Employees in Home Care Digital Transformation

AlayaCare

Embrace future now through a custom digital transformation One only has to look at the future that’s now being re alized by clients like Acclaim Health , who in 2015 deployed the full AlayaCare suite, including clinical documentation , back office , and the care worker mobile application across its PSW division.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” So I allow family members to be present if they want them to.

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The Ask-Tell-Ask Approach in Four Steps

1-800-HOSPICE

Doctors Isaac and Curtis presented this approach as a remedy for challenges in patient care being revealed by current research: The majority of patients in advanced disease states want to know their life expectancy, but only a minority of patients recall having such conversations with their doctors. Enzinger A, Zhang B, Schrag D, Prigerson H.

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