Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Healing the spirit has often been associated positively in healthcare by patients and healthcare providers. Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

I have been a hospice volunteer for twenty years, most of them in urban nursing homes. Mostly, I felt I didn't have skills to do the right things in a healthcare environment where somebody might get hurt if I messed up. Once in high school as part of a school club, I visited a nursing home where I fed a woman jello.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 4, 2022

Additionally, we received press releases related to CMS Acts to Improve the Safety and Quality of Care of the Nation’s Nursing Homes and CMS Seeks Public Feedback to Improve Medicare Advantage. Back to the books for all of us during this back-to-school season. Happy 57th Birthday, Medicare and Medicaid.”.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. Eric: And how is assisted living community different than a nursing home? One is they’re not licensed as a nursing home, and they’re not federally regulated. Biggest differences, not licensed as a nursing home, don’t have to have nurses.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Many people, even some who work in healthcare, believe that death is always something to dread. Hoping to inspire a conversation about facing death, he let photographer Joshua Bright take pictures of his last days on Earth at home in hospice care. Are they right? Is death as bad as many people imagine it will be?

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

MAY 5, 2020

Healthcare workers wearing full-body protection suits seem sinister, surreal, surprising in a place known as home. Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog Website: [link] Frances Shani Parker, Author "Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes" [link] Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog [link].

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nurse specialists and nurse generalists are both common within the nursing profession and 21st-century healthcare, and both serve important purposes in patient care as well as non-clinical settings. What are the repercussions for your nursing career? All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I chose, not healthcare management, which a lot of my colleagues have done, but I actually chose negotiation and dispute resolution, which I thought was fun, as well as marketing. That’s something that I figured we could definitely go after is using those negotiation skills and then moving them over towards the healthcare setting.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Healthcare worker have to be sensitive to patients' spirituality and religious beliefs regarding death journeys. Progression of cancer is an important example of a healthcare situation that requires patients to make decisions about their treatment. Are miracles real or just wishful thinking when a good health prognosis is wanted?

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JUNE 13, 2021

I did contract some part-time assistance with homecare nursing for the short term. Having worked previously within the healthcare system has exposed me to the assistance that comes with caregiving. In addition, having been rooted in human sensitivity has provided me with a foundation to complement the needs of the healthcare person.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 2, 2022

While they're at it, they could also choose to address issues related to safe staffing, decrease nurse:patient ratios, and pay attention to the ways in which healthcare workers are still in need of systemic support. Happy Nurses Week. All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com. Thank you for your service.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Links to essays and books by Marilyn McEntyre. She is written a number of books, including one that’s probably most relevant to today. She also teaches people who are interested in writing their own books. And I saw them lined up in their wheelchairs along the corridors and too many nursing homes are still like this.

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The Chaplain's Report

JULY 9, 2022

“Helen” is an elderly woman who lives in one of the nicer nursing homes in my area. While she has remained a staunch Catholic, the “big book” of Alcoholics Anonymous holds a place in her heart as well. In today’s work climate in healthcare though, that is a rare commodity.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nurses, the hard-working lifeblood and connective tissue of the healthcare system, can often feel as if they are doing battle with elemental forces far beyond their control in their efforts to provide optimal patient care and fulfill their personal and professional mission. All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On today’s podcast we talk with Jason Karlawish, who we’ve had on previously talking about his book The Problem of Alzheimer’s and with Aaron Kesselhim, to discuss FDA approval of Aducanumab , as well as frequent guest and host Ken Covinsky. . So it’s a very scary culture for people who are not in healthcare. Wait, what ? .

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Joe. I think this first time we’ve had you on.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. You’ve all read Louise Aronson’s book. Why did you go into it?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

or too much ancient history, but you know, like, like a lot of nurses, when I became an RN, I was told you gotta work in acute care. You gotta take all this book, learning that you’ve gotten at school and you’ve gotta put it to use in the real world, in acute care, in the hospital setting in order to really hone your skills.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? This is so important to patients, so important to their healthcare, so important to their quality of life. laughter] Lynn: So good.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. That said, I think we, and I mean collectively, not just in critical care, I think we as a healthcare system, I think we’re really good at keeping people alive. Julien: Absolutely.

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The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Working in healthcare takes a heavy toll. Our team at Hunter Galloway is here to help you determine the best Nurse Home Loan options available to you. Unlike other mortgage brokers who are just one-person operations, we have an entire team of experts dedicated to helping make your home loan journey as simple as possible.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Now to tackle this big subject, we are so lucky to be joined by Kristen Wheeler, and many of you probably know her in the healthcare industry since 1990 and in home care since 2006. So I was, I worked way back when, when I got into health in the healthcare industry itself. Like, Boy, wish I was home. Employee shortages.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

She had an UTI, her transport back to the, um, nursing home that she was from was delayed go figure. So the charged nurse kind of parked me there and I’ll never forget just how I felt like she was so sad and thinking, oh my gosh, I hope she’s not like this all the time. I still stayed in healthcare.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Now to tackle this big subject, we are so lucky to be joined by Kristen Wheeler, and many of you probably know her in the healthcare industry since 1990 and in home care since 2006. So I was, I worked way back when, when I got into health in the healthcare industry itself. Like, Boy, wish I was home. Employee shortages.

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