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Feeding Your Nursing Career

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Are you willing to feed your career as well as you feed your own body? How do you choose to optimize the nutrition that you feed to your body every day? Pay attention to what you're feeding your nursing career. Ask yourself the following questions: How do I feed my nursing career? What is my career asking of me?

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Emerging Services Help Hospice Patients Reduce Anxiety About Pets’ Future

Hospice News

Our volunteers can help with a pet’s daily needs – things like walking, feeding, and cleaning litter boxes. The documents associated with the pet placement plans are notarized, according to Diane McGill, founder and president of Pet Peace of Mind. We can get pets to grooming and veterinary appointments.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. And I think that’s where we want to be.

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‘Suncoast’ Film Points a Lens at Hospice Families’ Experience

Hospice News

The decision by Schiavo’s husband to suspend artificial life support and feeding for his wife, who was in an irreversible persistent vegetative state, prompted a seven-year legal battle with her parents. In the backdrop of these personal events, hangs the Schiavo case.

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Shradha Aiyer, Vice President, Axxess

Hospice News

Mobile technology is not just used for documentation, but it’s really an integrated workflow for the caregiver at the bedside. They have so many more insights using technology from telehealth and telemedicine that’s feeding into that mobile device, which is so powerful for them.

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The Secret is Out: Hospice Recertification Made Easy!

Hospice Nurse Hero

When this happens, you’ll want to use these tips to document the hospice recertification with ease. While the nurse practitioner can perform the face-to-face visit, it is up to the hospice medical director to review the documentation and certify the patient still meets hospice criteria. Use Comparison Documentation.

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When waiting is no longer acceptable.

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

It is also documented that people with a disability tend to have poorer health outcomes, low education achievements and less economic participation and high rates of poverty than those without disabilities. To further affect long term change in this area, further research is required that can feed into national health policy.

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