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Building Mental Health Supports for Palliative Care Teams

Hospice News

A state of stress Palliative professionals of all walks are navigating symptoms of burnout, including social workers, grief counselors, chaplains, physicians and nurses. During that time frame, workers reported low levels of well-being that indicated a higher potential risk of burnout.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Missouri set a very high bar, explicit written documentation that applies to this specific circumstance, which the Cruzan’s eventually cleared. But legislation can change, clinical practice can change, but I think what we’ll talk about today is how we’re now opening the door to conversations rather than legal rules and documents.

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7 Simple Ways to Get Organized for Hospice Nurses

Hospice Nurse Hero

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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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? And part of it is because just like palliative care, we are still a young kind of profession. We provide critical education.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

And yet, I think for everyone who’s elderly, which is anyone who’s my age or older, I would say it’s very important and ought to be part of an annual exam that we ought to be asking that, and documenting it in the chart. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that?

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

We all focused on studying the outcomes for patients and families of our intervention and then the processes to get there. Whether it’s the consult rate or documentation of a conversation, hospice referrals, those kinds of things, and then patient outcomes, quality of life, symptom burden. Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes.