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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

She went to the Emergency Room on Sunday afternoon, was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer on Monday morning and died Tuesday afternoon. Joan, they said, had signed a paper provided by building management that would not allow anyone to access her apartment. It’s why I struggled so much to maintain a relationship with Joan.

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How Would You Improve the Hospital Emergency Room?

The Caregiving Years Training Academy

I arrived last Sunday evening in the ER at about 10:30 p.m. On Sunday night while my dad had x-rays and a CT scan, I looked at the walls with chipped paint, the floors with paper scraps, the tables with left-over supply wrappers from the previous patients. He fractured his pelvis.) It’s chaotic, disorganized, unpleasant.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

And the best shows are always on Sundays, so it becomes Sunday Phunday, also with a PH. Scott: Wow, it’s like you read the paper. Literally, there’s dozens of stats, weedy stats papers on this. Is there a Phishheads? Scott: Phish phans. Eric: Phish phans? Eric: Yeah. A little bit better than Phishheads.

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Palace of Care – You Are All On My Side

Palliverse

I pointed to her papers and asked her directly what had made her interested to pursue an assisted death. She died peacefully on Sunday. We all enjoyed getting to know her. She had strategically placed her Assisted Dying printouts on her bedside table for all of us to see. She was keen to talk about it further.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

And she was doing great until on Sunday morning, clearing her breakfast dishes after reading the New York Times, which tells you about her functional status for the journey, listening, she went down, basically syncope, hit her head, was on a blood thinner because of some long ago Afib, that is another podcast. And how do you protect yourself?

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5 Tips To Adopt To Actually Being A Successful Home Health Nurse

The Productive Home Health Nurse

“Well isn’t writing all of my patient’s information on paper and then placing it in the computer, just double documentation?” Secondly, keep in mind that Sundays or Mondays or whichever day you choose as the start of your week is just that…the start of your week.

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Ep. 76: When to Hire On-Call Supervisors for After Hour and Weekend Calls

Home Care Pulse

And maybe a caregiver’s always willing to go in and fill in shifts except Saturday nights or her nights that she goes out on a date with her husband or Sunday afternoons, a caregiver. I know you’re signing a paper contract, but you’re assigning a verbal agreement with that family committing to be there during those times.