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

Hospice News

Traumatized and abused hospice patients and providers often experience an array of lingering physical, emotional and psychological effects that can fall into a silent abyss of unmet needs. Additionally, home health and hospice workers face higher safety risks and a myriad of unique challenges compared to other health care providers.

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Georgia Hospital Improves Organ Donation Process

Daily Nurse

.” The performance improvement initiative began at the end of 2017 to address concerns about lower-than-expected metrics related to the medical center’s organ donation process. A series of organ donation presentations in 2018 and 2019 provided staff education.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

Pallimed

Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) published its “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (8),” which was updated in 2010 and 2015 (11). Kollas MD, Terri A. Uh … I do have a conflict.

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Ep.18: BK Books with Barbara Karnes: Why Approaching Hospice Holistically is Necessary to the Success of the Care Continuum

Home Care Pulse

I’m the senior nurse educator at H C P, Speaker 1 ( 00:25 ): And you’re listening to Vision, the podcast for leaders and forward thinkers in the care industry. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of unifying the care continuum for end of life care. Speaker 3 ( 00:38 ): Hi, glad to be here.

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