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Hospices Leverage Tech To Combat Staffing Woes

Hospice News

Hospices are beginning to leverage technologies used to identify eligible patients in need to recruit and retain staff amid ongoing workforce shortages. Systems like artificial intelligence (AI), predictive analytics, and machine learning have helped providers identify eligible patients sooner in their disease process. Hospices are now applying those tools to help relieve industry-wide labor pressures.

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Chatting with Nurse Blake, RN and Most Popular Nurse Advocate on SM: Part 3

Minority Nurse

Have you read Part 1 and Part 2 of our interview with popular nurse influencer and nursing advocate Nurse Blake? Catch up before reading Part 3. Whether you know Nurse Blake from his Facebook videos, podcast, live shows, or cruises, he’s proven that he’s a force to be reckoned with! Tell me a little bit about your shows. You had done some smaller ones, but how did it all progress?

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Florida Awards Chapters Health CON for Pinellas County Expansion

Hospice News

Florida-headquartered Chapters Health System recently received a green light to advance on expansion plans across the state’s west central coast. In August, post-acute care provider Chapters set its sights on expanding its hospice business into Florida’s Pinellas County. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) recently awarded the company a certificate of need (CON) to begin offering hospice services in that region.

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Travel Nursing Demand Is Waning: Now Hospitals Want Full-Time Nurses Back

Nurse.com

As travel nursing demand subsides, hospitals are hoping they’ll return to the full-time workforce. Travel nurses made as much as $10,000 a week during the worst of the pandemic. However, salaries have dropped to $2,662 per week on average in recent months. Travel nurses are having contracts abruptly cancelled while in transit to their new site. Agreed-upon salaries are being renegotiated at lower rates.

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The Ultimate Guide to Improving Caregiver Engagement & Retention

Want to learn how to retain your caregivers & improve caregiver retention X3? The home care industry is experiencing turnover rates of over 80%. How are you ensuring your agency is retaining caregivers? This FREE eBook from Smartcare Software is packed with industry secrets needed to keep your caregivers happy, engaged, and retained, unlocking the full potential of your agency.

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M&A, Referral Uptick to Bolster Pennant Amid Labor, Census Headwinds

Hospice News

The Pennant Group (NASDAQ: PNTG) expects emerging rebounds in skilled nursing and assisting living — and its pipeline of forthcoming acquisitions — to offset the impact of continuing labor headwinds. The company reduced its guidance for calendar year 2022 in the wake of falling hospice lengths of stay, rising wages, the return of Medicare sequestration, and a slower rate of census growth than executives had anticipated.

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Find the Right Prescription for Your Career as a Pharmacy Technician at VA

Daily Nurse

A healthcare career as a pharmacy technician at VA offers unique opportunities and excellent benefits and might be the prescription some need. The VA is always looking for candidates with top-notch organizational skills to help keep their pharmacies running. Pharmacy Technician Role Offers a Unique Environment A pharmacy technician at VA works closely with pharmacists […].

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Protecting Your Staff, Clients, and Patients from COVID-19 & the Flu in 2022

Home Care Pulse

Article Contents: – Introduction. – What are COVID-19 and the Flu? – Signs & Symptoms. – How it Spreads. – If You Become Sick. – Treatment & Prevention. – Standard Precautions and the Client’s Home. Article Contents: 1. What are COVID-19 and the Flu? 2. Signs & Symptoms. 3. How it Spreads. 4. If You Become Sick. 5.

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Grieving for the Guru (Journey to India, Part 6)

Elaine Mansfield

Like so much else in India, Sri Sankaracharya’s funeral felt dreamlike and foreign, comforting and familiar. When the main ritual began, priests poured offerings on the sage’s head. His bright silk shrouds were soaked with yogurt, honey, water and herbs, or ghee, one substance at a time. Between each anointing, the curtain closed and, half an hour later, it opened.

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How To Increase The Hormone Of Joy

Euro-American Connections & Homecare

Studies show that seniors who stay socially active and engaged experience a variety of benefits, including, better cognitive function. For many seniors, it’s easier to watch TV alone than to go out with friends or enroll in an exercise program. Older adults need to be proactive about their activity levels, or their health will deteriorate. Social activities keep us sharp and mentally engaged, and this is important to prevent the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals

Nurse Nacole

Category: Fundamentals Motion sickness is a central nervous system response mediated by the vestibular system. Acetylcholine and histamine receptors are found in the vestibular center. Blockade of these receptors provides some degree of protection from emesis.

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How to Create Your Advance Care Plan Series with The Conversation Project, Special Episode 2

The Heart of Hospice

Welcome to the second episode of our Advance Care Plan Series in partnership with The Conversation Project, featuring TCP’s Improvement Advisor for Community Engagement and Learning Patty Webster! Whether you want to have ACP conversations in a group of 5 of 500, The Conversation Project has the resources to get those discussions started. Through shared … Continue reading "How to Create Your Advance Care Plan Series with The Conversation Project, Special Episode 2".

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Protected: 2022-11-10 – Executive Committee Meeting – via ZOOM

Changing Lives Podcast

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Ep.5: 5 Steps to Exit Daily Operations at Your Agency

Home Care Pulse

Ep.5: 5 Steps to Exit Daily Operations at Your Agency Jessica Nobles, Executive Director of Home Care Ops, breaks down her five-step system for taking a step back from daily operations, and what agency owners can do to save more time in their schedule. View Episode Transcript × Episode Transcript. Linda Leekley ( 00:08 ): Hi everyone. This is Linda Leekley, Chief Clinical Officer from Home Care Pulse.

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Using Ring Theory Paradigm When Dealing With a Terminal Illness

Hospice of the North Coast

An exploration into the benefits and limitations of Ring Theory. Key points: In Ring Theory, the ill partner becomes the priority, and the other partner cannot reveal their angst and grief to them. Ring Theory may benefit the person earlier in the illness, but other approaches should be considered for the longer term. The most important tool in a relationship is a couple’s ability to communicate.

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Inflation Reduction Act Imposes Prescription Drug Pricing Reforms

Healthcare Law Insights blog

On October 14, 2022, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14036, directing the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to consider innovative actions to drive down certain single-source prescription drug costs as the Biden-Harris Administration works to implement the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “Act”). The Act includes provisions targeting Medicare prescription drug costs, which could have wide-ranging effects for any party involved in the pharmaceutical industry, includin

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Using Ring Theory Paradigm

Hospice of the North Coast

An exploration into the benefits and limitations of Ring Theory. Key points: In Ring Theory, the ill partner becomes the priority, and the other partner cannot reveal their angst and grief to them. Ring Theory may benefit the person earlier in the illness, but other approaches should be considered for the longer term. The most important tool in a relationship is a couple’s ability to communicate.

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