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

Hospice News

Additionally, home health and hospice workers face higher safety risks and a myriad of unique challenges compared to other health care providers. 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.

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The Ask-Tell-Ask Approach in Four Steps

1-800-HOSPICE

The Importance of Prognostic Conversations In response to research revealing the importance of prognostic conversations and low patient recall of prognostic conversations, Margaret Isaac, MD and Randall Curtis, MD outlined a systematic approach for this patient communication. 2 Patient recall of prognostic conversations can be poor.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. Ann: Thank you.

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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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100 Men in Nursing – amazing male nurses, midwives and students

The Nurse Break

Palliative Care Nursing. Patient Perspective. Peter | Paramedic to Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner. I’m a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in Aged Care. I was a Civil Engineer for six years but made the move to nursing for the many pathways and opportunities it presents, as well as a better work/life balance.

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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

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. Kimberly, in the q and a just asked, what is the difference between hospice and palliative care? Palliative care works with people who have life threatening illnesses, but who want to continue trying treatment.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

Today we talk about these issues with Bill Gardner, a psychologist at the University of Ottawa who is living with cancer, Leonie Herx, a palliative care physician at the University of Calgary, and Sonu Gand, a psychiatrist at the University of Toronto and former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Bill: Thank you.