Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

My mother had pancreatic cancer, and I served as her primary caregiver while also managing a hospice agency. Ultimately, it’s about meeting patient needs across the care continuum. Starting my journey with hospice, knowing I would eventually be a consumer of the benefits, profoundly influenced how I led our agency.

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Happy Healthy Caregiver

APRIL 19, 2023

Celebrating Moms and Dads – 2023 Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Gift Guide Mark your calendars for this year’s parental holidays where we let our loved ones know how much we appreciate them.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 28, 2023

Then, she handed the beautiful newborn to her mother, Stacy Poll. Daily Nurse is proud to honor Mary Ann West as our Nurse of the Week for delivering her future daughter-in-law and mother of her grandchildren-to-be 20 years ago. West, a mother of three, related to Poll and offered comforting advice.

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AJN Off the Charts

MAY 21, 2024

When I was growing up, my mother kept a short essay called “I Had the World’s Meanest Mother” displayed in our house. It’s not for mothers but for all those clinical instructors who continue to cultivate the next generation of nurses. She really loved that essay.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 8, 2024

Her mother, Maria Campbell, is a seasoned registered nurse (RN) with five decades of experience. M aria and Angeleen readily seek each other’s advice and support. “There are no boundaries! The post Meet the Inspiring Mother-Daughter Nursing Duo Creating a Legacy of Care first appeared on Daily Nurse.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 2, 2024

His mother and grandmother paved the way in the field, and his grandmother’s intuition sparked his nursing career. Now a telemetry nurse at the University of Iowa Health Care , Wells is following in his family’s footsteps and thriving in an environment that feels like a second family.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 10, 2024

Stange, a trauma nurse at UPMC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was on her way to drop off her daughter, Eloise, at gymnastics class, didn’t hesitate to pull over and rush to Racchini’s side. Thanks to a phone call from a concerned neighbor, Stange and Racchini’s mother, Heather, were able to connect and meet at the hospital.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This week’s blog is by Gilda Davis , PhD Student and Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing, University of Worcester @worcester_uni @uow_TCSNM with support from her Supervisory team: Professor Kerry Gaskin @GaskinKerry, Professor Győző Molnár @GyozoMolnar and Dr Jackie Bentley.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The neonatal field is broad, and there’s so much that people don’t know about these nurses who work hard to keep critically ill babies alive and well. Still, their primary responsibilities are to perform typical nursing duties, test newborns’ cognitive skills, and help mothers during and after the birth of their child.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

If the hospice would allow a morphine or dilaudid drip, that’s going to cost them $350 to $600 a month,” the nurse said. The daughter could sit and hold her mother’s hand, as this medicine slowly kept her out of pain on a constant basis, and the daughter could sleep.”

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Donna Cardillo, The Inspiration Nurse

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

One day at age 14, after a physical altercation with her drug-addicted mother and years of abuse and neglect, she decided to take her own life by swallowing downers she had accumulated from her mother’s stash and a bottle of gin.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The app enables caregivers to track medication needs, coordinate doctor’s appointments and manage private communication among family and friends, among other tasks, according to the company. Starting when I was 10, I watched my mother and my aunts care for my grandfather before he passed, and that was pre-iPads and iPhones.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 22, 2024

mother, father, child, grandparent), lenses of identity (e.g., Nurses have a particular lens through which we see the world, and even though we may also identify as queer, liberal, disabled, Catholic, or as a mother or grandparent, our nursing lens is difficult to turn off once it’s turned on.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

There’s no shared governance or shared risk reward. It’s purely a programmatic collaboration to jointly improve the care for the communities we serve. While the counties that we currently serve are better than the rest of the state, it’s only at about 30%. That’s the big news. It’s not M&A.

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Elaine Mansfield

MAY 9, 2023

Disco was an SPCA puppy and didn’t spend long with her mother, so she’s always been high strung and needy along with sweet and gentle. Where’s Willow?” They had the same mother who was turned into a shelter in Florida with a litter of 12. Where’s Willow? Maybe I needed her, too. How did you handle it?

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Elaine Mansfield

MAY 21, 2024

She had been shipped to NY by an SPCA in FL I don’t think she had more than a few weeks with her mother, so she gravitated to my older dog, a gentle chocolate Lab Willow. She followed me and pushed against me in the way Willow had disliked, but I loved Disco’s sleeping body on top of my blankets, warming me at night.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

If we look at some of the decks and slide presentations on the Medicare Advantage carve-in, going back to 2018, it’s the same information, and we’re still talking about impacting change. I got to personally experience it myself this year, as my mother passed on our hospice services. We’ve heard that year after year.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 7, 2024

This National Nurses Week, learn more about Mary Eliza Mahoney, America’s first professionally-trained Black nurse whose birthday lies on May 7, the second day of National Nurses Week. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1993 for her contributions to breaking racial barriers in nursing.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2023

The Ivy League coach and mother of three died in 2016 at age 41. The platform is designed to build clinical workflows, operating capacity, training, automation and technology for providers seeking to create or expand home-based care services. Ronald Paulus launched Maribel Health late in 2021.

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Nurse.com

MAY 27, 2022

I have written about several of these challenges, including assessing if a student is well enough to drive home from school and when your actions can breach a student’s privacy. Luke’s mother requested that pictures of the prepared syringes be sent to her via a text message so she could see that the correct dose was given.

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Elaine Mansfield

APRIL 23, 2024

June 1, 1912 Harrison Munderback (Grandma’s brother, d. Grandma Edna suffered many hardships and family deaths, but she was always the Great Mother. For other stories about my grandmother, see Safe in the Great Mother’s Bed. He smells like soap and has soft eyes and a gentle voice. His name is Lon Ware.

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Nurse.com

JULY 27, 2023

Imagine the patient is a first-time mother who is breastfeeding, and her baby is just eight hours old. With our first-time mother, her perception of how breastfeeding is going, whether there is pain, and the baby’s satisfaction with breastfeeding are subjective. Assist the mother in multiple breastfeeding positions.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 22, 2023

Mudd’s leadership and longevity at the school will be critical in this new role. Mudd’s career has been dedicated to children’s health in acute and primary care settings. She will oversee curriculum quality and development, instructional design, clinical placements, and more.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 28, 2024

Eugene’s battle with breast cancer began in February 2022 when she discovered a lump during a self-exam. Aged 47, married, and a mother to a young son, Gracita’s journey from the Bahamas to Haiti and eventually to the U.S. Eugene’s story encapsulates the essence of nursing—compassion and caring.

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The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We met Nancy through her mother who was in our care at the Compassionate Care Center. During a conversation with Nancy one of our nurses, Teresa VanCamp Dickson learned that she felt sad that her mother wouldn’t be with her for her wedding in June. . Vernon woman had a dress for sale in Nancy’s size.

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Elaine Mansfield

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

After my father’s death when I was 14, my mother encouraged me to be a scholar and achiever instead of focusing on spirituality or the heart. Pondering the symbolic meaning of the “death” of the fathers opened me to an inner birth of the feminine or Divine Mother. with Marion Woodman, 2003.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JUNE 2, 2024

One of ASAM’s key missions is to engage in open and honest conversations about taboos surrounding childbirth, navigating through cultural intricacies, and redefining traditional practices. This misconception has dire consequences for many South Asian women accessing maternity services leading to poor outcomes for mother and baby.

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Elaine Mansfield

MARCH 28, 2023

After years of caring for my mother and your dad’s mother, I know the burden of caring for old people. Oh, this spacy not quite in the body feeling of Meniere’s Disease is still here. She’s almost 14, another reminder that I’m not in charge. I pray you two will always hold each other up. It’s my wish, too.

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Community Home Health Care

MAY 7, 2024

As Mother’s Day approaches, we celebrate the remarkable mothers who are balancing the roles of both motherhood and caregiving. Balancing motherhood and caregiving as a Sandwich Caregiver is undoubtedly challenging, but it’s not impossible. Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible mothers out there!

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

That’s not really where you start your career. I don’t know if it’s too early in my career to do this, but I’m making the leap.” What’s the biggest lesson that you’ve learned since you’ve started working in this industry? I went through nursing school. I have learned so many lessons.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

MARCH 15, 2023

Patti’s husband had a job transfer a few years ago, which moved them from their hometown in Illinois to Georgia. While she loves the southern weather, she really misses all of Chicago’s amazing restaurants! In her words, “they are my role models.” ” Patti, you are our role model!

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

MAY 24, 2023

Please join us in congratulating Anna Rosengarden, Freedom Home Care’s Manager of the Month! This became especially evident when her mother became sick and Anna was by her side helping her get better. When she’s not working, she spends time with her husband of 13 years and her two wonderful children.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Her mother, Bow Ngan Sum, was of Chinese and Hawaiian descent. Mr. Young died when Alice was twelve, leaving her mother with nine young children to raise. Alice’s hopes to attend medical school were dashed due to the family’s financial hardships. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing in San Francisco.

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Palliverse

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

That’s fine, we’ve already told your mother that some of our patients wait until there is no one with them before they slip away. It’s as if they are still looking after their loved ones and want to spare them from seeing their final moments, which might not be so pleasant. It’s Karma.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 1, 2023

Overview of Ozempic Ozempic (semaglutide) is an injectable (subcutaneous) prescription medication that’s part of a drug class of medications known as GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) agonists. The post Ozempic and Pregnancy: What Every Expectant Mother Should Know first appeared on Daily Nurse.

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Solace

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Born in Kentucky, she was a wife at 15 and a mother at 16 and her life inspired the book and later the movie, “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” You’ve got to continue to grow, or you’re just like last night’s corn bread-stale and dry.” — Loretta Lynn. There’s more exploration to come.” — Nichelle Nichols.

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Happy Healthy Caregiver

APRIL 14, 2022

Unique and thoughtful ideas for your special mom or dad for mother's or father's day are featured in this year's gift guide. The post Mother’s Day / Father’s Day 2022 Gift Guide appeared first on Happy Healthy Caregiver. Happy shopping!

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