Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Onboarding processes have an important role in preparing hospice clinicians for the nuances of providing end-of-life care. For example, some clinicians may lack the communication skills needed to discuss goals of care at the end of life, she said. There’s no one special sauce in what we’re doing.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Hospice providers, industry groups and other stakeholders recently penned a letter urging Congress to improve payment infrastructures that would increase access to end-of-life care among rural populations. So, for access to rural care, we’re going to have to depend on smaller rural programs.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

Breaking down the barriers to stronger trauma-informed end-of-life care requires heightened awareness, legislative action and improved care delivery approaches. Counterpoints and legalities Hospices have taken greater steps toward improved trauma-informed end-of-life care.

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High Peaks Hospice

DECEMBER 28, 2023

High Peaks Hospice is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to deliver and support clinical care for our patients. We help individuals achieve a peaceful life closure, aligned with their values, wishes, choice, and needs, while fully supporting their caregivers and loved ones along the way. Become a member of our growing Hospice Team!

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Anvoi, for instance, purchased iPads for all of its employees to make charting and documentation more efficient, as well as for “face-to-face” telehealth visits. Many providers also had to reinforce their teams with staff from travel nurse agencies, which also elevated their expenses.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Advance care planning by necessity occurs upstream of hospice, but those providers nevertheless have a role to play in helping patients and families understand the importance of making their end-of-life wishes known. The latter he co-authored with therapeutic nurse practitioner Shelley Morhaim. .

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

Reaching underserved populations can be a particularly challenging feat, with many coming on to hospice too late as a result of misconceptions among patients and clinicians in other fields, according to Keisha Mason, director of nursing at Heart’n Soul Hospice. Hospitals and nursing homes don’t want to get dinged for readmissions.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2023

Using data gathered from predictive analytics systems can give hospices an advantage when it comes to performance on these measures, particularly during the last week of life, according to Charlotte Mather, vice president of nursing operations at Dallas-based AccentCare.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

Advance care planning, done effectively, can reduce aggressive treatments as patients near the end of life, recent research has found. There’s been a lot of sort of questioning after about 30 years of work on advanced care planning, since the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 30, 2024

Finding the balance between compassion and the clock is critical for hospice nurses. For hospice nurses, mastering time management is an essential skill for long-term success. This blog will explain strategies and tips to help hospice nurses enhance their time management skills and get organized.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

This means hospices can expect to see heightened auditing and scrutiny of what costs are deemed “unrelated” to end-of-life care, according to Judi Lund Person, vice president of regulatory and compliance for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. “We Department of Justice.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Fried: I think end-of-life care truly needs to be reimagined. We’re right in the ring there, really looking at what we can do to improve the end-user’s experience. So really looking at creating a solution that works for the end-user instead of the end-user working for the solution has been our goal.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 4, 2024

In the vast and varied landscape of healthcare careers, long-term care is sometimes overlooked. However, this sector, which provides sustained assistance to individuals with chronic illnesses or disabilities, offers a unique and rewarding path for nurses. Clinicians who choose this path will find it as rewarding as it is demanding.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Equitable access to hospice care is hampered by disparities affecting certain racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups, posing a challenge that extends to educating patients and families about hospice services, and identifying those with advanced illnesses sooner to maximize the benefits.

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Hospice 101

MAY 16, 2020

Are you a good hospice nurse? Or, are you an AMAZING Hospice Nurse? In my eight-years as a Hospice Nurse, I’ve worked with some good hospice nurses, some bad hospice nurses, and then I’ve had the honor and privilege of working with some AMAZING hospice nurses. But can this difference be taught?

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 21, 2022

“As nurses, we must push back on public health misinformation where and when we can, so that we don’t return to the days when viruses such as polio thrived and spread, and human health needlessly suffered.”— Original Research: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Southern California Nurses. The November issue of AJN is now live.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 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. Mobile technology is not just used for documentation, but it’s really an integrated workflow for the caregiver at the bedside. What drew you to this field?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 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. My heart for post-acute care has grown year after year. My role was more than just teaching clinicians how to document patient visits. Change is inevitable.

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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

nursing care for hospice patients. He/she assesses the needs of the patient/family unit and plans, implements, and evaluates the nursing care in accordance with physician orders and the interdisciplinary plan of care. Operates under the direction of the Clinical Care Leader for their team.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2022

Hospice providers are nearly desperate to recruit nurses, but their labor woes do not end there. Providers have seen no lights at the end of the staffing shortage tunnel. Providers have seen no lights at the end of the staffing shortage tunnel. A shortage of non-clinical staff is an additional sore spot. As many as 4.5

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

While this can be a difficult conversation for some families, being properly prepared can help make the transition into senior and end-of-life care easier. 8 Tips for Helping Aging Parents Plan for Senior and End-of-Life Care. Have a Discussion About Senior Care and End-of-Life Care.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

DT was developed following the construction of the Dignity Conserving Model of Care (Chochinov, 2002). Is Dignity Therapy relevant for young people with life limiting conditions? While DT is becoming established in adult settings, further research on its usefulness across different contexts for younger populations is required.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

According to their report, NBC interviewed six nurses and 27 physicians who have worked at 16 HCA hospitals in seven states, some of whom are still employed by the health system. All said their HCA hospitals pushed palliative and end-of-life care in pursuit of better performance metrics,” NBC News reported.

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1-800-HOSPICE

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here we explore this choice and how it affects hospice care. This document is usually for people in their last months of life. A DNI is a very recognizable, straight-forward document like the DNR. It lets medical personnel providing emergent care know the patient’s wishes at a glance. What is a DNR? What is a DNI?

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice sends nurses, aides, and other caregivers to the homes of patients with advanced, terminal illnesses. Hospice is tailored to symptom control, emotional support, and care coordination during end-of-life care. Late referral to hospice and bereaved family member perception of quality of end-of-life care.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ann Merkel and some of the group of original High Peaks Hospice founders gathered to create a video to document the story of High Peaks Hospice’s beginnings. The Start of End Of Life Care in the Tri-Lakes Area and Expanding Throughout the Adirondacks. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care.

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

Hospice Care Philosophy Hospice philosophy acknowledges death as a natural progression and underscores the need for end-of-life care that prioritizes an elevated quality of living, comfort, and tranquility. These therapies can provide emotional comfort and relaxation.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Today we talk with Fayron Epps and Karen Moss, two nurse researchers who are focused on improving the experience of Black/African American caregivers of persons living with dementia. Why are nurse researchers in particular critical to the study of these issues? We talk in particular about: Terminology. Karen: Thank you. Alex: Great.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. Beth: I’m a nurse by training and then, obviously, the executive director. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, social work chaplaincy. Jane: My mother died about 12 years ago. Beth: That is correct.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Hillary: And then I also see us measuring advance care planning documents on file in the health system so that that’s not where I want us to be. But the EMS doesn’t know your documents, you know, just like those nuts and bolts aspects, because some individuals have a sense of, okay, it’s all about documents.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Susan Hickman, who is professor at the Indiana University schools of nursing and medicine, and is director of the IU Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute. Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. That’s a pretty big palliative care study. I’m just stunned even writing that! Kate: These are very sick patients. Did nudging work?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. staff training in person centered care). RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. toenail trimming) to things in between (e.g.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

The reintroduced [Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA )] has seen a long haul, but it’s still rolling through the process and this keeps it in front of our legislators. PCHETA will really help us to grow, improve and sustain the hospice and palliative care workforce long-term. Those are still there.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

So when I was in my last year of pulmonary critical care fellowship, we had two week elective. Kate: And I kept saying, I want to do end of life care research with Scott Halpern and that’s what I did. You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes.

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