Nurse.com

JULY 20, 2022

What Is Patient Abandonment in Nursing? The American Nurses Association’s (ANA) definition of patient abandonment is “a unilateral severance of the established nurse-patient relationship without giving reasonable notice to the appropriate person so that arrangements can be made for the continuation of nursing care by others…”.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control. Therefore, they should also be educated on the survey and how the care they provide impacts the hospice CAHPS scores. However, do your patients always run out of supplies?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? Eric: Who manages, once a day, methadone once they’re admitted to a nursing home? Katie: Well, I think you’re assuming that they’re accepting them to nursing homes, which is usually the first stop sign. Katie: Yep. Jessie: Yep.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

She had an UTI, her transport back to the, um, nursing home that she was from was delayed go figure. So the charged nurse kind of parked me there and I’ll never forget just how I felt like she was so sad and thinking, oh my gosh, I hope she’s not like this all the time. Yeah, definitely. Go sit with her.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. I think if you prioritize patient care, everything else kind of falls into place. Palliative care is trending.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about palliative rehabilitation or really the intersection between palliative care and rehabilitation. Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely. And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And typically, in the education around facilitating those conversations, we’re focused on eliciting goals and what are that individual’s goals of care and how does that direct the plan right now, knowing that some of those decisions, even if you make a choice now aren’t actually going to come into play for days, weeks, months.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

I think that’s the part that’s still the fundamental foundation of hospice, individualized care plans focusing on patients, families, wants, needs and goals. Lauren: Yeah, I think I can definitely see Joe’s point of view. We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

How did you get interested in palliative care research and the stuff that you’re doing right now? I was always critical care bound since medical school. But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes?

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