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End-of-Life Care: Your Patient Has Died, Now What?

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End-of-life care is intimate and unique for every patient. As a nurse, when your patient dies, you might be thinking now what should I do? To make matters worse, I had never performed end-of-life care. (I I was busy doing other tasks like the new nurse I was.). Post-Mortem Care Tips.

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Stoneridge Hospice Owner Rollie Seebert: Hospices Help Address the ‘Demographic Tsunami’

Hospice News

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. Stoneridge Hospice provides home-based hospice and also contracts with other providers to offer facility-based services.

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Great Lakes Health Partners CEO: Employee Grief Support Can Boost Recruitment, Retention

Hospice News

Illinois-based Great Lakes Health Partners, an Interim Healthcare franchise, is launching a grief support group for employees aimed at helping hospice workers deal with the stress of providing bedside end-of-life care. We didn’t have this support available, and a light bulb went off for us for us to start developing it.

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ProMedica Scales Down Operations; New Inpatient Facilities Open at Beacon Hospice, Holy Name Medical Center, The Hansen House

Hospice News

“Being a freestanding inpatient facility is ‘unique’ for a hospice service,” she said. New Hospice Facility Launches in Arizona Bonnie Irr, a retired hospice nurse, is launching a new inpatient facility in southwestern Arizona to improve end-of-life care access to families in need.

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The Intersection of Minority Identity and Palliative Care Nursing 

Minority Nurse

The same study also cited a bereaved families survey that found “African Americans were less satisfied with the quality of end-of-life care.” A Journal of Palliative Medicine study reported that over the next 20 years, the population of older minorities is expected to grow by 160%.

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How To Help A Loved One During End of Life

Shining Light Hospice

The advantage of home care is that all patients in every stage of the dying process have access to quality medical care as often as they need it without the worry of traveling to get it. Teaching And Guidance On End Of Life Care. Nursing Care And Symptom Management.

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

GeriPal

I’m guessing some, because I’ve read a lot of articles, are social workers and nurses, past hospice nurses. With Goodwin Hospice patients, not as much because they have that support from the bereavement group at Goodwin Hospice.