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Home Care Entrepreneur Builds Serenity First Hospice, Seeks to Educate Patients on End-of-Life Options

Hospice News

Debbie Jonhston is a registered nurse who founded Viriginia-based Serenity First Hospice in 2021, inspired by the care her father recieved as he reached the end of his life. With the launch of Serenity First, Johnston transitioned from her career in home health and personal care. It was something I’d never done before.

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RN With Family Crisis Put on Leave for Patient Abandonment

Nurse.com

She left work immediately without administering medications, without counting narcotics, and without documenting her nursing notes for her patients. The next day, the RN’s director of nursing put her on administrative leave due to the RN abandoning her patients. What Is Patient Abandonment in Nursing?

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Why Your OASIS Assessment Nursing Note Sucks and How to Write Them Better

The Productive Home Health Nurse

OASIS nursing note…. Have you been putting off “getting to know” your OASIS nursing notes for the longest time? When you start writing your OASIS nursing narrative note, it’s hard to decide what’s important and what’s not. Or maybe you’ve already tried “Frankensteining” (a Chanaism :)!) it but you’re extremely lost.

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Hospice News ELEVATE : Fireside Chat with Netsmart

Hospice News

That’s what they said in home health, but we know they get different flavors and do a little bit different variety of care and what they provide. That’s definitely one area that needs to have a seat at the table and be more integrated in. What if the MA plans made access to care a little bit easier?

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Checking in on your Staff’s Mental Health

Home Care Pulse

Grace had a private home care aide who later followed her to an assisted living, and Grace also received home health and hospice services as the storyline grew. Self-care and the protection of your own mental health is important for everyone. Nurses do the caring, they don’t get taken care of! Are you doing okay?

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Ep.3: How to Prepare Your Staff For OASIS-E Upgrades

Home Care Pulse

Linda Leekley ( 00:49 ): Yeah, Wendy has, uh, I’ll speak for her and then she can add anything that she wants to, but she, uh, she, uh, uh, started her nursing career in, uh, acute care as, as many nurses did, Uh, did some time in the er and, and then moved to post-acute care. OASIS-E right? <laugh>

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Ep.6: How to Build the Right Environment for Client Referral Growth

Home Care Pulse

And for the next 19 years, she kept him home in a hospital bed in a wheelchair in her dining room, along with the help of course of my brother or my mom and her brothers, my uncles and private duty nursing. They kept him alive and well, and without pressure ulcers or skin tears for 19 years in my grandmother’s home.