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.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hospice documentation is tedious and time-consuming. I’ve outlined simple tips to help you master the fundamentals of hospice documentation. Do you spend hours documenting at home? Worse yet, do you find yourself frustrated when “corporate” only seems to care about timely documentation?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

APRIL 14, 2022

Whether you’ve been a nurse for one day or 20 years, there are 5 strategies you need to survive hospice nursing. It’s not unusual for hospice nurses to say that it’s their calling. However, it takes more than a calling to make it as a hospice nurse. Let’s get real for a moment.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

On admission, a nurse might be going to a patient’s home, and she needs to review all of the patient’s medications and enter them accurately in the electronic health records (EHR). We’re getting some amazing results, with folks saying they’d had significant reduction in their documentation time,” she says.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Being a hospice nurse can leave you feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. If so, then you need these 7 simple ways to get organized for hospice nurses. Unlike working at a hospital or nursing home, you don’t just get to pop back into your patients’ rooms after you leave. Document at the Bedside.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Hospice providers are leveraging technology to build greater efficiency into their workflows and, in turn, aid with recruitment and retention. Providers have increasingly sought methods for streamlining clinical teams’ administrative tasks, for instance, including time spent on documentation.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 6, 2024

This article will outline tips and strategies to support better hospice documentation when painting the picture of decline. “Painting the picture” is a phrase often used to describe the process of documenting a hospice patient’s condition. I didn’t always understand how to chart for hospice.

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Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2023

Safety concerns among community-based home health and hospice workers may be on the rise. An unidentified hospice nurse and her patient were recently robbed at gunpoint in Chesterfield County, Virginia. They don’t report it, even though there are policies and protocols in place to do so. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.)

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

We’re not going to take the place obviously of a medical director or a certified hospice nurse, but we are going to give them another tool to question their thinking and make sure that what needs to be documented is being documented.” What other programs can we help you find for them?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Referral rejection rates among hospices reached a record high of 41% in 2022, according to data from CarePort, a WellSky company. Nurses also accounted for 16.97% of vacancies. Hospice aides and CNAs also represented a large percentage of job vacancies and saw high turnover rates, 19.05% and 29.84%, respectively.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Hospice care is delivered anywhere the patient calls home and for many elderly, this includes the nursing home. Learn how you can build better relationships with nursing homes while delivering quality hospice care. As a hospice nurse, it’s likely that you will provide care to nursing home patients.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“About a year ago, we did a kind of a deep dive into some of our challenges, and we realized that we needed to do a new staffing model, one that would attract dedicated, experienced hospice nurses,” Kalvaitis said at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference in Chicago. “So We were able to hire nurses.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

When this happens, you’ll want to use these tips to document the hospice recertification with ease. If you’ve worked long enough as a hospice nurse, then there’s a good chance you’ve had to chart a patient’s hospice recertification. Now, you might be wondering what your role is in the hospice recertification.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What we have seen over the years, because I can tell you, starting out 30 years ago or somewhere around there, as even going out to calling on physicians and nursing homes and saying, “Please give us early referrals, please give us early referrals,” just hasn’t happened in 30 years. For me, that’s a huge win.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

As a nurse, when your patient dies, you might be thinking now what should I do? I was busy doing other tasks like the new nurse I was.). My charge nurse was also amazing. Where Hospice Patients Die. Believe it or not, many people still end up dying in acute care settings or nursing homes. But I digress!

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. Hospice News: Today we will talk about threads of clinical documentation and satisfaction and also revenue protection. Let’s just dig into what the problem is with that renewed focus on quality in hospice. They love doing it.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Ready to quit your nursing job? Now more than ever, nurses are taking a stand against, unsafe patient-to-staff ratios, mandatory overtime, and rejected time off requests. Let’s face it, becoming a nurse is hard work. It takes a great deal of mental strength to make it through nursing school.

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1-800-HOSPICE

DECEMBER 21, 2021

While most patients in hospice make an advance directive stating a preference to not be resuscitated or intubated, this is not a requirement. Here we explore this choice and how it affects hospice care. This document is usually for people in their last months of life. Does Hospice Require a DNR? What is a DNR?

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Solace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The hospice nurse, end-of-life doula and author of The Hospice Heart offers a few tips for coping with the often emotional and visceral task: Tackle one drawer at a time. I get both of these responses. Neither is wrong or right.”. Ask friends or family if they’d like a special item.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

Hospice News: What career experiences do you draw most from in your role today? Kody Johnston: I’m a nurse by trade so a lot of what I draw into my day-to-day as a director of business analytics is based on what I did in the field. This merging of technology and clinical skills has been invaluable.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Questions such as: Why did the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate volunteer involvement in hospice as a condition of participation in the Medicare Hospice Benefit? In my 30+ years as a hospice nurse, I have had the privilege of working with many hospice volunteers. To whom do they report?

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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. Eric: But you are the executive director of a large nonprofit hospice, Goodwin Hospice. Beth: I’m a nurse by training and then, obviously, the executive director. Jane: My mother died about 12 years ago. Beth: That is correct.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 19, 2024

As a hospice nurse, you understand the importance of accurate, detailed documentation. However, composing hospice narrative notes can be challenging and leave you feeling frustrated. What if I told you there’s a simple way to compose nursing notes? Hospice notes are long and complicated. Well, there is!

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Death and Dying Chronicles

OCTOBER 17, 2017

That did it… There once was an elderly woman, in her 80’s, suffering from dementia and currently a flu like illness that had been going around the nursing home. That the nurse, in her best, experienced judgement, saw that your mother was suffering and was only trying to alleviate her pain and make her comfortable.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

If completing a hospice admission gives you cold sweats, you’ll want to check out these expert hospice admission tips. One of the most common frustrations hospice nurses have is related to how long it takes to complete hospice documentation. And at the top of the list is the hospice admission.

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