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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

The study looked at claims data from January 2013 to December 2017 among 146,329 older patients with metastatic breast, colorectal, lung, pancreas, or prostate cancer. What can we nurses do to support informed choices? Again, this kind of financial reality isn’t usually discussed until too late.

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7 Proven Ways to Improve Your Hospice CAHPS Scores

Hospice Nurse Hero

Please read full disclosur e for more information. This form of hospice reporting was part of a mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA ) and became active in 2017. Agency values are for informational purposes only and are not meant to represent actual agency survey scores. This post may contain affiliate links.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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Our guests are BJ Miller, palliative care physician and c-founder of Mettle Health , and Naomi Saks, chaplain at UCSF. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Alex: And we also have Naomi Saks, who’s a palliative care chaplain and an assistant professor at UCSF. Pain Manag Nurs.

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