Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

Hospice providers and patients are having difficulty procuring medications due to nationwide drug shortages, threatening quality of care and patients’ access to hospice. These include essential drugs for pain and symptom management. The scope of the shortages seems to be widening. Slightly more than 240 medications were in short supply at the close of Q1 2022, compared to 195 during the same period in 2016, according to data from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).

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Happy Healthy Caregiver

MAY 19, 2022

In this post, you’ll find six self-care and caregiving books you may want to add to your ‘to be read’ pile. Recently I put a hold on accepting new caregiving and self-care books because my ‘to be read’ pile is overflowing which makes me feel anxious. To be honest, I’m not reading as much thanks […]. The post Book Haul: Self-Care and Dementia Caregiver Inspiration appeared first on Happy Healthy Caregiver.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

Facing mortality is never easy, but patients and families may see fewer hardships in some geographies. Some signs point to Vermont and Utah as states in which people were more likely to have a better end-of-life experience, whereas families in New Jersey or New York may encounter more difficulties. A recent analysis by the insurance marketplace firm PolicyGenius ranked factors associated with a loved one’s death in each state and the District of Columbia.

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NHPCO

MAY 19, 2022

For Immediate Release: May 19, 2022. Bill Would Invest in Palliative and Hospice Care Research and Education. (Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and its advocacy affiliate, the Hospice Action Network (HAN), welcomed the introduction of the Palliative Care & Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) today in the Senate.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 19, 2022

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are hot topics in the healthcare world, but including a DEI module in our yearly education isn’t enough to address these issues. Policy is a valuable tool, but actual change needs to come from a more personal level, from each and every staff member. Before we can have a meaningful conversation about DEI that might lead us toward significant change, we need to understand the meaning of diversity, equity, and inclusion and why it is important in healthcare.

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High Peaks Hospice

MAY 19, 2022

The Adirondacks are full of people that are quick to lend a helping hand and give to others in need. Local businesses have shown time and time again the importance of investing and supporting other agencies. . This past January, the Adirondack Artists Guild hosted “Transition,” an art show to benefit High Peaks Hospice. Each member of the Guild donated pieces of art in a silent auction event.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

MAY 19, 2022

Importance of Self-Care In Grief We all grieve differently, but one thing remains true for everyone: the importance of taking care of yourself. Whether you’ve found yourself in a state of just going through the motions or you’ve put all your focus on taking care of your loved ones, it can be easy to put. The post Importance of Self Care In Grief appeared first on AT Home Care & Hospice.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 19, 2022

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Adobe Hospice & Home Health

MAY 19, 2022

We all grieve differently, but one thing remains true for everyone: the importance of taking care of yourself. Whether you’ve found yourself in a state of just going through the motions or you’ve put all your focus on taking care of your loved ones, it can be easy to put your own needs on the back burner when facing the loss of a loved one.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 19, 2022

Chances are you’ve seen and read more positive portrayals of nursing in the news media since the start of the pandemic than in years past. Recall those days at the start of the pandemic when nurses and other healthcare providers were hailed as heroes, and the country was counting on nursing, as part of an […].

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Caring Senior Service

MAY 19, 2022

Sexual health and intimacy in seniors is something that we as a society tend to have a difficult time discussing. The reality is, however, that over 40% of people between the ages of 65–80 are sexually active, and failing to have open conversations around this topic leads to a lot of misconceptions, flawed information, and downright myths. Sexual health is a core component of healthcare, and it’s something that older adults should be able to discuss without shame or stigma.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 19, 2022

This fall, the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) is launching the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program, which will recruit and prepare a diverse cadre of expert nurse practitioners (NPs) to provide primary care to individuals and families in underserved communities across the U.S. Largest gift ever The $125 million […].

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Nurse Nacole

MAY 19, 2022

Category: Fundamentals The main advantage of rapid-acting nitrates is their ability to halt an episode of angina once it has begun. Generally, the adverse effects of short-acting nitrates are related to their vasodilatory effects.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). How do you do that? Do you do what I do, pull out a handy-dandy opioid equianalgesic table to give you a guide on how much to convert to? . Well on today’s podcast we invited Drew Rosielle on our podcast who published this Pallimed post about why opioid equianalgesic tables are broken and why we shouldn’t use them, as well as what we need to move to instead.

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