Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Hospices and other post-acute health care providers lag behind hospitals and ambulatory settings when it comes to electronic health record (EMR) interoperability. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), a federal agency designed to foster greater health care interoperability.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 17, 2024

She graduated in 2016 from the top of her class and remained on the telemetry unit as an RN for a year before taking her next step. “I Returning to Her Roots When a patient care coordinator role became available on the fifth-floor medical-surgical telemetry unit, Scatton knew it was her calling.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Available from: [link] (accessed 16/2/24) [3] Vorwerk J, King L (2016) Consumer participation in early detection of the deteriorating patient and call activation to rapid response systems: a literature review. 106(SUPPL 1) (pp A361) [8] Patient Safety Commissioner (nd) Listening to patients.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 5, 2023

Handovers are delivered in many places such as: behind closed office doors; standing outside patient bay areas; at the patient’s bedside, and in corridors. 2016 ; Cornell et al. 2016 ; Bruton et al 2016 ; Kerr, Lu, and McKinlay 2014 ; Poot et al. 2016 ; Forde, Coffey and Hegarty 2020 ). 2016 Sep;61:165–72.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2023

Home health value-based purchasing Home health providers have two primary inroads to value-based care — HHVBP and Medicare Advantage. Like other value-based models, the program’s objective was to improve quality and reduce health care costs. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) kicked off the HHVBP demonstration on Jan.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Initial reviews of patient care revealed deviations from best practice, including missed referrals, care team members initiating discussions about donation with families, and misconceptions about the donation process. The number of organ donors in 2021 was 31, with more than 22 donors in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JANUARY 14, 2024

In view of this, the ASPIRE project (2016) was developed as a partnership pilot initiative between the University of Northampton and St Andrews Health Care.to To further develop the students’ confidence, knowledge and skills to initiate safe patient care. Of the 30 participants, 23 were ASPIRE and 7 were traditional students.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Unity Hospices and Palliative Care Appoints New Strategic Director Unity Hospice and Palliative Care has named a new director of strategy with the recent hiring of Scott Hensley. Hensley was previously the national vice president of managed care at Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC), serving in the role since 2017.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Meet Shameika Smith, a registered nurse in the Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program at Shepherd Center Talk about your career path and how you ascended to your role at at Shepherd Center I started my nursing career as a Patient Care Technician in 1999 at a hospital in Florida. I love taking care of people.

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Nurse.com

JULY 18, 2022

For Kapu, a holistic approach to patient care is basic to nursing practice at all levels, “taking into consideration…where [patients] live, where they work, their transportation, their access.” According to Kapu, 89% of new NPs are certified in primary care. This same holistic lens shapes the NP role.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Yet he never formally served as a leader or member of PROP, and until the CDC NCIPC-BSC Meeting on July 16, 2021, Chou avoided all allegations of conflicts of interest (COI) between his opioid research and co-authorship of the 2016 Guideline, unlike several other PROP members (2). Activities that did not pose a conflict (e.g.,

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

Many have persistent unmet care needs leading to high costs with questionable quality outcomes (Salzberg, et al. Abrams, Tanya Shah, and Gerard Anderson (2016). Health System Performance for the High-Need Patient: A Look at Access to Care and Patient Care Experiences. 327(6):521–522. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.25181

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 12, 2023

Day, who began his nursing career in 1990 and eventually earned his DNP in 2015, says LGBTQIA+ nurses offer a common link to their patients in the LGBTQIA+ community. “I believe it’s important to have LGBTQIA+ nurses in the workforce to offer representation to LGBTQIA+ patients who they are taking care of,” says Day.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 29, 2023

Some posit a correlation between cultural humility and perceptions of patient safety (Handtke et al., Artificial intelligence and technology are not new but are constantly changing and being reimagined and are correlated with improvements in patient outcomes. 2019; Hook et al.,

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

million in 2016, according to the U.S. Also, across the board, more health care has been steadily moving into the home setting, particularly in the wake of the pandemic. For one, hospice utilization has been on a steady upswing nationally for several years. More than 1.72 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

Recently, Oreofe Odejide, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and colleagues published an analysis of hospice utilization among patients who died with lymphoma, and they made recommendations for improving patient care. Hospice use among patients with lymphoma: impact of disease aggressiveness and curability.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MAY 1, 2022

This provides useful guidance for practitioners and researchers, and can if implemented successfully improve evaluation of the condition and effectiveness of treatment and patient care. 2016) Combined intratympanic and systemic use of steroids for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a meta-analysis. References 1.

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The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 11, 2023

From then I worked in emergency and ICU nursing, mostly in major hospitals, learning how to manage critically-ill patients with myriad complex equipment, supported by well-resourced, experienced teams – none of which prepared me whatsoever for nursing in the Pacific!

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Kate’s journey is a great example of how powerful the PNA role can be for nurses, nursing students and other members of the health care team. We have to really invest in ourselves, each other and those around us to really embedded genuine wellbeing cultures which will enable QI/ leadership, education, patient care to flourish.

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AlayaCare

JULY 5, 2022

This reality is already a prime issue affecting the global home care industry; indeed, it’s no surprise to anyone in this business that, when it comes to skilled staff members who provide care, supply is consistently slipping below demand. The facts: baby boomers need care and residence.

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The Nurse Break

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Nurses innovate every day by improving processes and services directly related to patient care. We started the business in 2016 in Hobart and now own and operate more than 20 clinics across 6 States and Territories of Australia. But most importantly you need to have passion and a vision. Where did the idea come from?

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AlayaCare

JULY 4, 2022

This reality is already a prime issue affecting the global home care industry; indeed, it’s no surprise to anyone in this business that, when it comes to skilled staff members who provide care, supply is consistently slipping below demand. The facts: baby boomers need care and residence.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

Since 2016, webPOISONCONTROL has assisted almost 800,000 people worldwide with their poisoning exposures. The clinical focus is their passion and they are dedicated to excellent patient care. webPOISONCONTROL was developed and is maintained by a team of board-certified medical and clinical toxicologists.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 24, 2022

Let’s start with your background in home care in general, and then how you made your way to home care pulse. Melissa Mendez ( 05:07 ): Definitely.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. In 2016 there were about a thousand MAID deaths, in 2021 there were about 10,000. Four percent. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So take a listen and if you are interested in learning more, check out these wonderful links: Harvey’s latest book is called, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter Michael J. Scientific American Letter to the Editor: Response to Downar et al. Eric: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

With over 25 years of experience in the post-acute care space, she’s worked with many top regional healthcare and home care facilities in Texas, as well as some of the best known agencies nationwide. Gone are the days of looking at patient care through a vacuum, only focusing on what we can do within our scope of practice.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

AUGUST 28, 2021

And not even 3 weeks ago, it was announced that President Biden approved and made official the ”Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model ” that has been a pilot program in 9 states since 2016. I’m sure all you’re thinking at this moment is…. What is all of this? . Why is it even necessary? Which documentation does it have to deal with?

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