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Hand washing and irritant contact dermatitis

The Nurse Break

Irritant contact dermatitis; which includes symptoms that can vary from mild to debilitating, including dryness, irritation, itching, and even cracking and bleeding. The other being allergic contact dermatitis, which is rare and represents an allergy to some ingredient in a hand hygiene product. This is very easy to do inadvertently.

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Contact Lens Safety Protects Your Eyes

Minority Nurse

For nurses who wear contact lenses, keeping your eyes in top shape takes some dedicated effort. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has elevated the importance of contact lens care to create a Contact Lens Health Week which begins this year on August 22. See your contact lens provider regularly.

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Stoneridge Hospice Owner Rollie Seebert: Hospices Help Address the ‘Demographic Tsunami’

Hospice News

One of the things we do is have our quality program team review charts and monitor tuck-in calls contacts with patients in between services to address specific needs. The biggest takeaway was having that constant contact with our patients at a time when we were restricted with access.

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Lack of Staff, Guidelines Build Hurdles for Hospice Bereavement Care Programs

Hospice News

Bereavement care staff often operate in silos outside of the interdisciplinary care team and have fewer opportunities for direct contact with patients and families, team of a patient’s care, while physicians and nurses have more direct contact with patients and their families, she said.

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Inside the TPE Audit: Best Practices for Agencies

Hospice News

This team can serve as the main point of contact that gathers the information, ensures it’s reviewed, is submitted and received and verifies that the address and contact information is correct with Medicare. For those facing an audit, it is helpful to have an internal audit response team in place, Cary says.

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Hospice Getting Creative in Leveraging Volunteerism Post-PHE

Hospice News

Ideas that hospices formed around low-contact, high-impact tasks can be carried forward in new ways with the PHE’s end, Wagener indicated. During COVID, all of us had to get very creative to find ways to meet needs effectively with less direct contact,” Wagener said.

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Hospices’ Collaboration with Discharge Planners Key to Effective Care Transitions

Hospice News

There are ways to contact that hospice agency for questions prior to admission for any questions that they have. If symptoms worsen or new ones appear or in the event of decline or a fall, they should know to contact the hospice rather than 911. So, it’s all about communication.”

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