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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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Some Families May Not Access Hospice Without Caregiver Support

Hospice News

The nation’s health care system is lacking in support for caregivers of the terminally ill, who are often left with a heavy financial and logistical burden. Even when a caregiver is present, that person may be elderly or ill themselves, or be unable to be in the home around the clock due to work or other obligations.

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Challenges With Feeding Elderly Patients

Hope Hospice

Feeding elderly patients can sometimes be challenging. Let’s review some best practices for feeding elderly patients. This might mean feeding young children in the home at a different time or location, so that you avoid distractions and too much noise. Tips for Assisted Feeding. First, create a calm environment.

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What You Need to Know About Comfort Feedings, Heartbeat Episode 296

The Heart of Hospice

We’re talking about comfort feedings today, how they work and the benefits they hold for hospice patients and their caregivers. Comfort feeding, (also pleasure feeding, is the practice of feeding the patient only what the patient likes and wants. It might not be considered particularly healthy.

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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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‘Suncoast’ Film Points a Lens at Hospice Families’ Experience

Hospice News

The film provides a window into what hospices actually do, as well as the experience of families whose loved ones are nearing end of life, the challenges of caregiving and grief that often begins long before the patient dies, according to Jonathan Fleece, CEO of Empath Health. “I

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Emerging Services Help Hospice Patients Reduce Anxiety About Pets’ Future

Hospice News

Our volunteers can help with a pet’s daily needs – things like walking, feeding, and cleaning litter boxes. A caregiver can certainly complete the form, but when you get to the notarized page, the patient will have to sign it and be present upon the notarization.” We can get pets to grooming and veterinary appointments.

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