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USF Unveils Palliative Care Certificate Program for Nurses

Hospice News

The University of South Florida (USF) College of Nursing has launched a graduate certificate program in palliative care and hospice. The program is designed to help nurses pass the Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN®) exam. ” Participating nurses will take six courses taken over three semesters.

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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

Hospice News

Grant is also a nurse practitioner and palliative care consult service provider at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Recent years have brought evolutions in Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits that have broadened awareness of the quality impacts and cost-savings potential tied to palliative services, according to Grant.

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Senate Again Takes Up Hospice, Palliative Staffing Bill

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have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support. . If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.)

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Developing DIGNISPACE – a dignity therapy-based app protype for young people with life-limiting conditions

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

You can follow Alison on X: @ARodriguez339 Professor Joanna Smith is a Professor of Nursing in Child Health at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Hallam University. Our extensive patient, carer and public involvement activities found that a DT type intervention/s would be acceptable (Watts et al., What did we find?

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Executive Changes at Niagara Hospice, Transcend Strategy Group, AMOREM, HomeCare & Hospice

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Established in 1971, the organization provides hospice, palliative, nursing and home care services across four counties in western New York. HomeCare & Hospice Appoints New Director HomeCare & Hospice has named Meme Yanetsko as its new director of advancement.

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Fostering Student Interest in Palliative Care

Pallimed

Some schools make palliative care rotations mandatory, some optional, while others make it hard to find or "build your own." Having learners rotate is an excellent way to teach primary palliative care skills, to help learners early in their career on the best ways to introduce palliative care, and maybe finding a few future colleagues.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

Pallimed

By November 2018, misapplication of the 2016 Guideline had begun to cause serious patient harms, including diminished access to medically appropriate opioid analgesia (41). By contrast, Andrew Kolodny has published three QPAs since September 2019 (131-133), after he corrected his COI disclosures for JAMA articles from 2017 and 2018 (102-105).

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