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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Hospice News

More than $200 million SIA payments were distributed in 2021, compared to less than $100 million in 2017, according to the Abt research. In terms of patients, that’s more than a million beneficiaries receiving SIA services in 2021, versus under 850,000 beneficiaries in 2017, the data found.

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Georgia Hospital Improves Organ Donation Process

Daily Nurse

. “The outcome of that investment has been a hospital culture that values and celebrates organ donation as a standard of care for patients and families and an important part of honoring end-of-life wishes.” A series of organ donation presentations in 2018 and 2019 provided staff education.

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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

Daily Nurse

percent of the total distribution in the 2017 dataset to 20.3 percent compared to the 2017 dataset ($300,506). NSO and CNA’s Nurse Practitioner Claim Report revealed that in the 2022 dataset, 66 percent of all claims involved NPs specializing in family and adult-gerontology primary care.

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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

Nurse practitioners (NPs) have a great deal of responsibility regarding patient care, and as the healthcare landscape evolves, so do the daily risks NPs face. Nurse practitioner malpractice data can be used to inform and address areas of clinical improvement as well as help to improve the quality of care and patient safety.

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My year as a Florence Nightingale Foundation Digital Leadership Scholar

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

I have been passionate about telephone triage and remote clinical decision making since I first started as a clinical advisor in 2017. The role that nurses and paramedics, play in supporting 999 callers to receive the right care, at the right time, by the right people was astonishing but misunderstood by the wider NHS.

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Nursing the Nation and the World

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

The ubiquitous nurse is present in the care of children, the elderly, the disabled, and the dying. We call nurses the lifeblood of healthcare, and they're also the connective tissue and the veritable mitochondria, the cellular powerhouses of the delivery of patient care. Nurses are everywhere. They are legion.

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7 Proven Ways to Improve Your Hospice CAHPS Scores

Hospice Nurse Hero

This form of hospice reporting was part of a mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA ) and became active in 2017. PRO-TIP : If your patient is in the nursing home, call the family and invite them to be present during your visit! Were there red flags or warning signs present? That’s a mouthful!).

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