Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

Members of LGBTQ+ communities are foregoing advance care planning conversations due to fears of discrimination, recent research has found. A little more than 57% of roughly 200 sexual and gender minority adults indicated in a survey that a fear of disclosing their sexual orientation or gender identity was a barricade to advance care planning, according to research in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 9, 2022

New research from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) underscores the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses and the benefits of creating and sustaining healthy work environments (HWEs) to support nurse staffing, retention and optimal patient care. Results from AACN’s fifth national survey of nurses are now published online ahead of the […].

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Pennant Group (NASDAQ: PNTG) plans to ramp up acquisition activity in the second half of the year and into 2023, with a number of hospice and home health deals in its pipeline. . The company has been aggressive on acquisitions for the past two years, but paused in early 2022 to integrate its most recently acquired assets and accumulate capital. But executives indicated in a second-quarter earnings call that more deals will be coming to fruition in the coming months. .

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Chicago Caregiving

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Value of Video Gaming for Older Adults. I always thought the life cycle of a video gamer mirrored that of a Dark Age denizen: You’re done at 25. I’m 42, which makes me Egyptian pharaoh ancient. But when my 10-year-old stepson, who loves baseball and video games, agreed to play the latest Major League Baseball PlayStation game with me, I decided to get back into the gaming chair.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Photo by Darius Bashar on Unsplash. I was worried he would die before the day was over. When I first met him he was hunched over in bed, his jaw clenched tight, his upper teeth were grinding into his lower teeth. His breaths short ragged grasps. In extremis, with tears dripping onto the tousled folds of the bedclothes. His family’s faces replaced by masks of terror.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Category: Fundamentals Lidocaine is a class IB antiarrhythmic. However, its electrophysiologic effects are different in that it is selective to ischemic tissue, and especially to active fast sodium channels in the bundle of His, Purkinje fibers and ventricular myocardium.

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