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

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. You work with who’s there and they, they deliver care.

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