Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Aetna, a subsidiary of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), is leveraging a series of new benefits that, coupled with existing palliative care programs and ongoing hospice payment demonstrations, promise to keep patients in their homes and out of facilities. The new benefits are heavily focused on making medications affordable and addressing social determinants of health.

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Diversity Nursing

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Patient advocacy is a critical aspect of providing safe and effective patient care. Nurse advocates are tasked with helping patients understand and navigate their healthcare journey, including answering questions, explaining medical care, discussing and explaining billing or insurance, and other healthcare-related topics. Nurses are often the first and last contact for patients in the healthcare setting.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Oncology practices have increasingly collaborated with palliative care providers — or built their own service lines — to better support cancer patients throughout their health care journeys. Cancer patients can benefit from the interdisciplinary support of a palliative care team, but a main barrier to access is that oncology clinicians often lack insight around these services, according to Dr.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Mattoon, Illinois-based flight nurses Kelly Hamill and Dakota Shadwell of the Air Evac Lifeteam are receiving nationwide recognition for using the new Bubble CPAP non-invasive ventilation equipment to save the life of a preterm baby born at about six months gestation, who weighed only two pounds. Hammill advocated to obtain the new equipment for its east Central Illinois crews to help young children in respiratory distress, and now both flight nurses will be honored for saving the life of a

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This article is sponsored by Enclara Pharmacia. In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Megha Kadiyala, SVP, Product Management, Enclara Pharmacia, to talk about technology as it relates to the nurse experience. She discusses Enclara’s focus on user experience and how it impacts nurse workflow through a continual process of feedback and implementation.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you want to earn an advanced practice degree—such as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), among others—you will need to get a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree. But there are many other reasons to have one as well. Last year, Laura Browne, MSN, RN, CNL, a second-career nurse, graduated from Georgetown University with her MSN-CNL.

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Living Assistance Services

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Reading is a wonderful hobby to enjoy in every stage of life. Think about it—parents read books to infants and young children as a way to.

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Healthy Workforce Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Bullying, incivility, disrespectful communication, rudeness, and cruelty are on the rise in healthcare. It’s sad but true. To make matters worse, because we’re currently in a major staffing crisis, leaders are even more reluctant to confront bad behavior because the mindset is, well, a bad nurse is better than no nurse. That’s faulty thinking on so many levels.

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Nurse Nacole

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Capnography provides information about ventilation (how CO2 is eliminated by the pulmonary system), perfusion (how CO2 is transported through the vascular system) and metabolism (how CO2 is produced by cellular metabolism).

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Healthcare Law Insights podcast

OCTOBER 18, 2023

CMS has criticized hospices for underutilizing general inpatient care (GIP) but has also specifically targeted GIP claims for audit and medical review. In addition to CMS’s standard tools for reviewing GIP claims, such as UPIC audits and TPEs, the OIG is now getting involved with a GIP audit of its own. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske and Bryan Nowicki discuss the divergent approaches to GIP care and what this may mean for the hospice benefit.

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