GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not. Barbara: Yay.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

These are usually chaplains or social workers providing bereavement services, and some hospices also have clinical psychologists or therapists as part of that team. Last year federal legislation was proposed that, if enacted, would have advanced the development of an evidence-based definition of “high-quality” bereavement care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If enacted, the legislation would remove co-pays and patient fees for advance care planning (ACP) services, allow social workers to conduct these conversations, expand provider education about associated billing codes, and improve reporting on barriers to ACP utilization. House of Representatives by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.).

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

I started advocating pretty early on that I thought it would be really beneficial to form a separate, dedicated team of nurses, physicians, social workers and chaplains to take part in this care. What was your role in the process and how did you determine a need for these services? The numbers were pretty striking.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2023

We have nurses, a social worker and chaplains that donate their time. It’s definitely a much more collaborative system. But it’s a beautiful model because of the lack of complication. Our volunteers actually go through a really lengthy training program and are willing to do that.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the last few years since I’ve graduated we’ve definitely seen more new programs popping up across the Northeast and in Massachusetts. That is the most important thing as we think about the need for nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers and case managers.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An objective person to talk to — such as a friend, counselor, social worker, or support group — can help, Bilkey says. We have a very strict definition of what it means to be a good person, and that is many times toxic,” he adds. “A The process will likely raise many emotional issues, possibly including retraumatization.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

Nurses and social workers are especially stretched thin. There’s definitely a bedside element to doulaship that can help fill in gaps of hospice staff time, as well as ease caregiver burden. What areas can death doulas offer hospices the most support? Merelli: We wanted to bridge the gap to death.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Expanded definition of the IDT: The legislation will allow hospices, starting in 2024, to use marriage and family therapists (MFTs) and mental health counselors (MHCs) as part of the hospice interdisciplinary team. That cut was averted, protecting hospice patients and providers.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Kaweah Health Hospice staff will oversee the hospice facility’s day-to-day operations and medical care, which will be provided by a team of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. The company cited swelling construction costs, rising inflation rates and the staffing shortage.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

So, it’s definitely an area of opportunity, where there’s just much more research that’s needed related to palliative care. It really plays such a huge benefit to the patient when you have a social worker or nurse come into the home, and they’re able to see things that they may not see in the office.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

We also have a home health aide, a chaplain, a social worker, a patient intake coordinator and a medical director. That’s definitely not ideal for anyone. The labor shortage certainly made hiring tough, because we can only offer so much in regards to pay. Luckily, we have been able to stay fully staffed.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It was launched in 2011 for nurses and social workers in Africa to do formal training and palliative care but has now widened to include applicants such as spiritual care providers, music therapists, clinical officers, doctors and more.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

By definition, statute, and regulation, hospices provide interdisciplinary care driven by patient goals. Hospice patients receive care from a team that includes doctors, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual care providers, bereavement care professionals, and trained volunteers.

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1-800-HOSPICE

APRIL 11, 2023

Defining Palliative Care To appreciate the difference between palliative care and hospice , consider the definition of palliative care offered by the Center to Advance Palliative Care: 2 Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illness. All hospice is palliative, but not all palliative medicine is hospice.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

It is something that I have been involved with in a past life, but I was definitely not where I would consider myself a subject matter expert. The ACO REACH model of course is provider-based organizations that offer three types of participants.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The way that the physician describes, the way that the nurse describes, or the social worker, or the chaplain, all of them are going to help you identify what’s important to that patient that you should be tracking. That’s definitely one area that needs to have a seat at the table and be more integrated in.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We have medical social workers who support the patients. We definitely have people who were dwindling and really looking like they were coming to the end of life, and when they start getting these supportive services, they pop back up. And so the definition of family was broad. We have a psychiatrist. We have a dietician.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. Being knowledgeable of possible ALS symptoms in advance can help you know what to expect and prepare for the inevitable transitions of the disease. What is ALS?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). Yeah, definitely learned from those, I would say, that this intervention built on our CASA trial, and I’m happy to talk more about that, for sure.

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Nurse.com

JUNE 14, 2022

4182 , the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Workers Act, which was introduced in May 2022. After taking this course, you should be able to: Review definitions, statistics, and trends of active shooter events. “It is vital that we prevent problems before they get worse.”. Nurses are also hoping the U.S.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 25, 2022

4182 , the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Workers Act, which was introduced in May 2022. After taking this course, you should be able to: Review definitions, statistics, and trends of active shooter events. “It is vital that we prevent problems before they get worse.”. Nurses are also hoping the U.S.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

Anecdotally, as I was driving from the facility here for this session, I [received] 14 text messages of people wanting to join us; medical resources, social workers that are coming word of mouth from the people that were here today. To get one of those six months ago, I had to spend my weekend on Indeed actively looking.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 14, 2022

Actually I should have been a social worker. They have social workers for emotional, psychological support. That’s definitely a hurdle to get across. It, it definitely takes a special type of individual, you know, to be an end of life doula, be a caregiver that would see the end of life over and over again.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. And palliative care friendliness was definitely a very important factor to this. Welcome, Liz.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: We definitely have a case. Keri: Definitely, yes. Definitely a deviation. 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. Eric: Three steps. Okay, I’m looking forward to this. Eric: Oh yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Melissa: It’s definitely true that that’s the incentive under nonprofit and for-profit. Melissa: There definitely is, and I think one of the things with the type of research that I do and my colleagues here do is that we’re doing large population-based data, looking nationally. They both have to make money.

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The Chaplain's Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

He had declined a chaplain for support as well as our social worker. He had definitely improved, but still had a long way to go. He wasn’t making medical decisions for his brother, and he often came across as gruff and reserved over the phone. Frank was a military veteran, though at first he never talked about his service.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Especially because Hilary definitely told you that she had 2 weeks worth of orientation and preceptor time. The main caveat for this benefit is that the patients that we see must qualify as being “homebound” per Medicare standards and definitions. Killin’ it! Hmmm, what’s really going on here…??!!

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I’m definitely seeing this a fair amount in our palliative care clinic with our seriously ill patients and their families, who remain highly motivated to stay away from COVID. Celebrate the work they are doing to do this when this happens! People have been very creative, having drive-by birthday celebrations at homes, etc.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. And one quibble with that of course is that we think the definition of capacity is that it’s task and context specific. Welcome back, Lynn. Lynn: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Brian: The standard definition that we take a lot, from the work of David Kissane, has been poor coping, the sense of helplessness or hopelessness, and a lack of purpose and meaning. To Brian’s point, that we are also integrating chaplains, social workers, it’s not necessarily two psychotherapists. What is this?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely. It’s very challenging from a hospitalist standpoint because I think there’s definitely a population of people who are not educated well about what are the outcomes when people go to subacute rehab, who benefits from that. Sweet Caroline. ” She didn’t know.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Not just for the bereaved, Bearing the Unbearable will be required reading for grief counselors, therapists and social workers, clergy of all varieties, educators, academics, and medical professionals. You Can Heal Your Life, the definitive bestselling book on self-healing, has transformed the lives of millions of people.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Social pain and loneliness. How definitions bind us, for example the division between chronic pain and palliative pain in much of the US. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. Definitions can be shackles. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying you have to like negative feedback but you should definitely learn from it. To be honest, the insight of the chaplains and social workers was always impressive. Embrace Negative Feedback. The team also discussed what they could do differently in the future.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

To make matters worse, hospices have lost social worker employees at a faster rate than any other health care setting in the care continuum as turnover rises to 27%. So while paying your employees more definitely impacts retention, the data shows that your caregivers are still looking for more than just pay.

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