Hospice News
AUGUST 9, 2023
Seriously ill seniors in prison settings often do not receive the full interdisciplinary scope of palliative services, including limited nursing visits, according to David Gorlock, Pennsylvania’s state organizer for the advocacy group Straight Ahead. They didn’t have a specific nurse for them.
Nurse.com
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Recently, nurses have navigated their careers through a global pandemic, a travel nursing boom, supply issues, and continue to face an ongoing nursing shortage. Nearly 30% of nurses considered leaving the profession in 2021, compared to 11% in 2020, according to Nurse.com’s 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report.
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GeriPal
OCTOBER 13, 2022
So I think when you start combining these trials and you’re faced with an older adult that the option would be to now put in a PICC line and send them to a nursing home and then you can have a really sit down with the patient through shared decision making decide we stop at seven days. Lona: Absolutely. Rasheeda: CKD-EPI.
GeriPal
AUGUST 25, 2022
She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Lauren: Yeah.
GeriPal
MARCH 7, 2024
Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center.
GeriPal
AUGUST 4, 2022
Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. Yeah, April 5th, 2021.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2023
JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms. 2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. The for-profits stepped up and they have been serving people in nursing homes, including with dementia who deserve our care, and the nonprofits haven’t.
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