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Hospice Nurses: Admission Tips You Can Use Right Now

Hospice Nurse Hero

If your agency is still on paper then you will likely have a physical chart with this information. Regardless, there are key pieces of information that your intake team should obtain. Review Intake Information and Records. You don’t want to wait until you get the patient’s home to review this information!

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Caregiving Best Practices: Get Healthcare, Financial, and Legal Affairs in Order

Hope Hospice

Highlighting the urgency of this need to be prepared was an email I recently received from a gentleman who has attended Hope’s Family Caregiver Education Series. Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation.

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Caregiver Mistakes: Not Having Healthcare, Financial, and Legal Affairs in Order

Hope Hospice

Highlighting the urgency of this need to be prepared was an email I recently received from a gentleman who has attended Hope’s Family Caregiver Education Series. Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation.

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Top Family Caregiver Mistakes:  Part 1.5; Not having healthcare, financial, and legal affairs in order

Hope Hospice

Hope Hospice is publishing a five-part monthly series about common family caregiver mistakes. I had planned for this month’s blog, second in our series about common mistakes that family caregivers make, to be about the importance of having a support system in place. Following is Part 1.5, Revisit Part 1: Not Planning in Advance.