Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Even our nurses have been telling me that compared to when we first started, they’re seeing a lot more Asian patients in our [hospice] program,” Lin told Hospice News. “So, Bilingual staff at the centers host community engagement activities and hold seminars explaining the nature of hospice.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

Training health care staff to help patients feel safe in these discussions is essential to addressing this problem, according to Arthur Fitting, nurse and LGBTQ+ program manager at VNS Health. Formerly the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, VNS Health recently rebranded as it expanded geographic reach across the Empire State.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2022

We’ve increased the number of licensed practical nurses. That helps relieve some of the work that we put on our nurses and social workers. The residency actually came out of a grant that was funding nursing education. It’s six nurses at a time, and it’s really open to any nurse.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Exploring the Psychological Aspects of Palliative Care: Lessons Learned from an Interdisciplinary Seminar of Experts. And the anger was… I was the one delivering the bad news, but the anger was very much directed at a social worker on our service who’s female. The caregiver apologized. J Palliat Med.

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