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Feeding Your Nursing Career

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Are you willing to feed your career as well as you feed your own body? How do you choose to optimize the nutrition that you feed to your body every day? Pay attention to what you're feeding your nursing career. Ask yourself the following questions: How do I feed my nursing career? What is my career asking of me?

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Showing Appreciation of Your Loved One’s Caregiver

Accessible Home Health Care

When your loved one reaches the point where a professional caregiver is needed, that person becomes an extension of your family. Caregivers are there day and night to ensure your loved one remains safe, healthy, and happy. So, it means a lot for caregivers to know how big of an impact they are making by showing appreciation.

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Episode 37: Closing the Books

Living With Hospice

In this episode of Living With Hospice, Mitch addresses the many facets of 'closing the books' at the end of our lives, including practical planning, reviewing the bucket list and the often uncomfortable topic of saying goodbye. Also part of closing the books, for someone who's dying, is to say goodbye. It can turn into a hot mess!

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End-of-Life Dreams and Visions (ELDVs)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

The following is a true nursing home experience that my hospice patient shared with me about an unusual trip she said she had taken the day before I visited her: (Excerpt from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes ) “What did you do today?” I asked Rose after feeding her. “Me? Hey, that’s great.

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Love Yourself: Finding Purpose in Aging

Always Best Care Senior Services

Join a book club, an exercise class, or a travel group. They rely on you to care for them: feeding, walking, grooming, playing – it can keep you busy and give you something to look forward to. Stay active with the support of an in-home caregiver who can provide you with the level of help you need when you need it.

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School-Nursing Home Partnerships (Service-Learning, Dementia)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

They take pride in the roles they play as visiting caregivers who enrich lives. My book, Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes , includes a chapter on intergenerational partnerships between schools and nursing homes. Dementia is understood with relevance and meaning.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

In the case of radiology, they feed these bazillion radiographs to an artificial intelligence, so they also feed it what happened, what the outcome was, what happened in reality. ” So instead of reading a book, we’ll just read it on an iPad. I believe we should be paying in-home caregivers more. Alex: Yeah.