Hospice News
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Most hospices are sliding into 2023 between a rock and a hard place, beset by headwinds, labor shortages and questions with no easy answers. Through the cracks, providers can see glimmers of improvement. A number of hospice leaders anticipate that the industry will settle into a “new normal,” having absorbed the shock of the pandemic with a better understanding of how to navigate the transformed landscape.
Minority Nurse
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Culturally competent nursing mentorship for nursing students, nurses, or faculty often remains challenging when the mentor needs to reflect on the mentee. Understanding diversity in higher education and the strategies to improve culturally competent guidance is looked at through the lens of mentoring. Brief History. The term ‘mentor’ was adopted from Mentor, a Greek mythological figure in Homer’s “Odyssey.
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Hospice News
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Clinical turnover has been on the rise since the pandemic’s onset, leading hospices to raise the bar on their recruitment and retention efforts. But a disconnect may exist between health care leaders and the underlying issues affecting frontline staff. Rising turnover during the pandemic has heightened workforce challenges for hospices and other providers throughout the continuum, including worsened turnover, according to the 2022 study from BerryDunn.
Daily Nurse
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Navigating being a military spouse and having a successful nursing career is not a feat for the weak. It’s a life of traveling the world, meeting new people, experiencing new cultures, eating new foods, moving every 2-3 years, and having that ‘one’ pile of boxes in the garage that has faithfully traveled the globe with […].
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Home Care Pulse
DECEMBER 13, 2022
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The Nurse Break
DECEMBER 13, 2022
A guide to Nursing Communication. Meet Steph – The nurse you want next to you when you need help with communication with a patients. Stephanie has a Bachelor of Biomedicine, Bachelor of Nursing from Monash University. She has more than 7 years’ experience working with people with disability and communication issues and this is her passion, having even presented research at ICUR 2017.
Home Care & Hospice Network brings together the best content for professionals in the home care and hospice care industries from the widest variety of thought leaders.
NHPCO
DECEMBER 13, 2022
For Immediate Release. December 13, 2022 . The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Diversity Advisory Council (DAC) published the results of a first-of-its-kind research exploring perceptions of hospice care among African American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, and LGBTQ+ communities. This survey of 1,200 people is part of the NHPCO DAC’s commitment to health equity; to understanding. hospice through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); and to breaking down breaking
Together for Short Lives
DECEMBER 13, 2022
This festive season will be tough for everyone this year, but it’s especially hard for vulnerable and isolated families caring for children with incurable and life-limiting conditions. Did you know you can be there for these families while you do your Christmas shopping, at no extra cost? The post Support while you shop this festive season appeared first on Together for Short Lives.
Nurse.com
DECEMBER 13, 2022
It’s hard to believe that a privacy curtain would be a focal point of lawsuits involving nurses, but it happens. I wrote about a similar situation in a recent blog. The following case describes another unfortunate outcome involving a patient’s privacy curtain. Reported facts of the case. A male patient who was diagnosed with dementia several years earlier was admitted to a nursing home on his physician’s recommendation.
Nurse Nacole
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Category: Fundamentals Magnesium citrate (citrate of magnesia), magnesium hydroxide (Phillips’ milk of magnesia), magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt), sodium phosphate and sodium biphosphate (Fleet enemas) are examples of saline laxatives.
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