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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

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This article is sponsored by Netsmart. This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

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From you reading the 2022 article that was authored? I feel like there are similar features of how it presents for both patients and providers when they’re dealing with this issue and that they can’t even put a label on too. Josh, welcome back to GeriPal. Josh: Thank you, you all. I think the lead was Bry on that.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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Summary Transcript Summary In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block , she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement. As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved.

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Voices: Deanna Heath, VP of Hospice and Palliative Care Services, KanTime

Hospice News

This article is sponsored by KanTime. The ability to present customer satisfaction scores, attention to HQRP measures and a means for providing quality hospice services in a cost-effective manner directly impacts those plans. A VBID model would completely rework how the Hospice benefit is offered.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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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’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. Why Beth?

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

We supplement that with additional resources and articles and things. I’m not saying they’re not, but they are not as present. In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Disaster Care, Brain Drain, More: Recommended Reading in AJN’s March Issue

AJN Off the Charts

Two articles in this month’s issue address disaster care: “Enhancing Disaster Management Preparedness Through Simulation,” which describes a mock disaster drill for nursing students in which volunteers acted as earthquake victims and local emergency medical personnel accepted patient handoff from the students. Browse and subscribe.

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