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The Secret is Out: Hospice Recertification Made Easy!

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However, did you know that only the hospice medical director can recertify your patient’s eligibility ? While the nurse practitioner can perform the face-to-face visit, it is up to the hospice medical director to review the documentation and certify the patient still meets hospice criteria. Yep, you heard me right.

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Hospice Nurses: Admission Tips You Can Use Right Now

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Also, what medications are likely to be discontinued once the patient is enrolled in hospice. For example, the medical director may want to stop vitamins and supplements. Recommended Article: 3 Common Mistakes Hospice Nurses Make and How to Avoid Them. They told the family that the hospice would supply the tube feedings.

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

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Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . Yvonne Lindgren article mentioned on podcast. And I became the medical director for that program, and so I was watching and learning as the hospital was taken over by AIDS patients and the whole city was consumed by this epidemic.

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