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How To Paint the Picture:10 Better Words to Chart

Hospice Nurse Hero

This article will outline tips and strategies to support better hospice documentation when painting the picture of decline. Requires assistance with ADLs. Disease-Specific Declines: Each condition presents unique markers of decline. However, the second example has more details demonstrating how the patient is declining.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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The 5 Most Important Metrics You Need to Audit Your Agency’s Training Program

Home Care Pulse

Article Contents: – Introduction. Article Contents: Your Program Offers at Least 8 of these Basic Training Topics. Present certification certificates to congratulate and commemorate your caregivers for completed trainings . Print Article. – Your Program Offers at Least 8 of these Basic Training Topics.

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Hospice Documentation What You Need to Know

Hospice Nurse Hero

Related Article: 3 Common Mistakes Hospice Nurses Make and How to Avoid Them. And to make matters worse, you might not always be present when they occur. Suggested Article: Hospice IDG: Top Time Wasters and How to Avoid Them. Hospice Charting Fundamentals. Let’s begin with the basics. CommonHospice Scales & Measures.

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The Ultimate Guide to Caregiver Training in 2022

Home Care Pulse

Article Contents: – Introduction. Article Contents: Why You Need a Professional Training Program. Since 2020, half of all agencies have introduced online courses into their training program to evolve with the challenges presented during the pandemic. – Why You Need a Professional Training Program.

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Gerontology nursing: holistic care of the older person

The Nurse Break

Similar articles here. You still need all the speciality skills of dealing with different illnesses that might present in one person, plus additional skills in recognising medication interactions, side effects and aspects of polypharmacy that might need attention. Write for us. Enjoying The Nurse Break’s free content?

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

First, we’ve invited Jerry Gurwitz to talk about his recently published article in JAMA titled The Paradoxical Decline of Geriatric Medicine as a Profession (while it’s not the most upbeat title for the future of geriatrics, Jerry sees it as a call to action). I was going to start off by asking Jerry about why he wrote the JAMA article.