Hospice of the North Coast

APRIL 1, 2023

Hospice of the North Coast is blessed to have a thriving volunteer department assisting our patients and families in many ways. Our patient care and pet therapists see our patients wherever they call home. Also, bringing a presence of comfort, respite for caregiving family members, and friendship.

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Nurse.com

JANUARY 3, 2023

Nurses work every day to ensure patients get the care they need — and the comfort and compassion they deserve. The complex nature of nursing continues to be physically and emotionally draining, yet nurses carry on providing quality patient care and moving the profession forward, which reinforces the importance of nurse appreciation.

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1-800-HOSPICE

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hospice Care Index: A Perfect 10. In August 2022, Medicare included a new overall quality measure for Hospice Care Compare: the Hospice Care Index. For each quality measure where the hospice has good performance, one point is added to the Hospice Care Index. Scores range from 0 to 10.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Patient care is more than just physical healing. Good healthcare includes building a connection that encompasses a patient’s mind, body, and soul. Her blog is Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog. Other times, it is done implicitly, unconsciously, but still doing harm.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

The American Society of Clinical Oncology describes hospice as an essential component of end-of-life (EOL) care. 1 As such, hospice utilization among patients with hematologic malignancies merits scrutiny as an area where hospice utilization is traditionally lower than with solid malignancies. Overall, only 41.6%

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 8, 2023

We call nurses the lifeblood of healthcare, and they're also the connective tissue and the veritable mitochondria, the cellular powerhouses of the delivery of patient care. Ask most members of the public, the media, and even legislative bodies, and they'll tell you that nurses take care of sick people in hospitals.

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Traditions Health

JULY 3, 2023

Check out our blog for more tips on how to live well. You’ll also learn how Traditions Health provides exceptional patient care through our home health , palliative care , and hospice services. Ask your doctor about any medications you take and their side effects, so you can adjust your water intake accordingly.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 14, 2024

If you’ve ever dreamed of having a side gig providing in-home patient care, Amanda Truffen, a Registered Palliative Care Nurse at Carpenter Hospice, is already doing just that. Why did you start your side gig providing foot care for patients in their homes?

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In the fast-paced and ever-evolving behavioral healthcare field, nursing leaders are crucial in ensuring efficient operations, a supportive work environment for nurses, and providing quality patient care. Her leadership inspires current and future nurses to provide patients with the high-quality care they need and deserve.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 14, 2022

Several others have introduced bills to address other challenges, like the recognition of NP signatures on forms related to patient care,” she said. The 103 NPs work in specified healthcare settings including, but not limited to, clinics, home health agencies, medical groups, and hospice, she said.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 15, 2023

With tens of thousands of qualified candidates turned away each year due to a lack of faculty and appropriate clinical training sites, this decreased nursing school capacity feeds directly into hobbled patient care capacity at urban and rural levels.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 11, 2023

Some will tell stories of caring for a beloved family member and how that inspired them to a life of service as a healthcare professional. Touching Lives In patient care in the acute setting, nurses are the ones with whom patients interact the most.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 30, 2023

NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. How is this thinking detrimental to patient care? We have over 100 million Americans that lack access to care. We have 163 million Americans that lack access to mental health services.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 5, 2023

Geriatric care is unique in that it is less hectic than working in the emergency department or on surgical wards but can be equally demanding. What drew me most to this discipline is the patient care aspect. It’s not strictly medical. Eldercare allows me to give back to communities in more than one way.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

Wendy’s background is in emergency nursing and community based skilled home health as well as palliative and hospice care and has laid ground for her service as senior clinical content writer and subject matter expert here at home care pulse. So welcome Wendy. So that kind of naturally made me wanna do home health.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JUNE 9, 2023

COVID-19 affected hospices and home health agencies, whose staff had to overcome physical and mental burdens of visiting patients’ homes, especially during the days before a COVID-19 vaccine. Hospices will be required to provide necessary in-service training and education programs no later than September 30, 2023.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

Marie Wilson, RN Communicating with professionals in various healthcare roles — such as personal care assistants, patient care technicians, and certified nursing assistants — was a necessity to ensure the latest information was available to anyone caring for patients. difficile can be prevented.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 20, 2024

No matter how efficient a robot may be in doling out medications and how powerful artificial intelligence and machine learning may become, the absolute humanity of nursing care would be impossible to replace with a machine entirely.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 24, 2022

Of course, it is also encouraged to work with care professionals (e.g. hospice or palliative care ) who understand how to prevent and manage mood and behavioral changes when the seasons change. How Hospice Care Can Help Provide Care for Dementia Patients. Contact Harbor Light Hospice to Get Started.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? Doing home care? Hospice visits? We talk about how wonderful is hospice? In the ICU at the bedside?

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 14, 2020

Here’s the story, as told by Joan Alford, RN, Hope’s former patient care coordinator: We had received a donation of a hot-air balloon ride from the City of Livermore’s Centennial Celebration. Will you make a donation today to help us continue to offer exceptional care to our local communities? PLEASE DONATE TODAY.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 15, 2023

In a busy hospital unit, emergency department, or other settings, stories might be harder to share among colleagues, and we may leave certain shifts feeling as if the weight of our patients’ lives is pressing down upon our shoulders.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 28, 2023

The Importance of Prognostic Conversations In response to research revealing the importance of prognostic conversations and low patient recall of prognostic conversations, Margaret Isaac, MD and Randall Curtis, MD outlined a systematic approach for this patient communication. 2 Patient recall of prognostic conversations can be poor.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Devon, I see that you have an R21 to study concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines, which are like the second most common thing I prescribe in combination after opioids and laxatives for people in hospice. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. Devon, welcome to GeriPal. What is it called?

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Minority Nurse

JULY 19, 2023

Every Path Is Different Sandra Nosek, MSN, RN , has been a nurse for over 30 years with experience in management, staff development, QA wound care, long-term critical acute care, hospice, and skilled nursing facilities. She recently obtained an RN case manager position with a small hospice in her community. “

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Then, I left the pain clinic and started doing hospice and palliative care. I began because with my pain management background, even in the hospice and palliative side, where there’s pain management, there’s always the conversation of the addiction and the other side of the opiate.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Almost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” This simple challenge was focused on putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients with dysphagia who are prescribed thickened liquids. I think someone has a song request for Alex. Raele: I do.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 14, 2022

We know that ensuring that patients and families are engaged as partners is an effective way to measure the quality of patient care. Specifically, the inclusion of the CoreQ: Short Stay Discharge Measure in a Future SNF QRP Program Year. Ready to learn more?

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Nurse.com

MAY 23, 2022

With 12,000 members, the AMSN encourages med/surg nurses to use their powerful voices and focused action to improve patient care. Members active in the care of neonates who maintain a current knowledge base also can apply to receive funding to attend the National Neonatal Nurses Conference. Palliative Care. Nephrology.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2022

Aged Care Nursing. Australian Nursing Blog. As a palliative care nurse I provide comfort and care to patients with terminal diseases or who are end of life, while supporting the family. I am a Critical Care Nurse (CCRN) in Intensive Care at a major tertiary hospital and state-wide trauma service.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 25, 2022

Marcia Bosek D.N.Sc., RN, collaborated on two studies released by the American Nurses Association’s Center For Ethics and Human Rights and the University of California San Diego Health that include the perspectives of more than 2,374 nurses in the United States on Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD).

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