AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With the growing demand for home-based care services, organizations are struggling to keep up with repetitive tasks and inefficiencies that can be costly in terms of time and resources. You want your employees in the head office doing only the tasks that involve building a relationship and making decisions. When you look at what’s happening in the back office of the typical home care or home health agency today, you have a lot of activities that don’t involve either of those two thin

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Wheels of change are in motion at Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) as CEO Paul Kusserow begins his second term at the helm. For starters, the company is going full-speed ahead on palliative care, delivered through its subsidiary Contessa Health. Amedisys yesterday announced a partnership with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee to cover those services, as well as a forthcoming divestiture of its personal care segment to HouseWorks — excluding its Florida operations.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Think about the last time a patient yelled at you in anger. How did you react? The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. Afterwards, I thought there must be a better way. Well on today’s podcast we invite two of our favorite palliative care psychiatrists, Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner, to teach us about going beyond simple communication skills like naming the emotion when

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Nurses are the backbone of the nation’s healthcare system and play a vital role in providing clinical care to patients and supporting other healthcare workers. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, nursing is the largest healthcare profession in the United States, with 4.2 million registered nurses.

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Adobe Hospice & Home Health

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Abode Hospice Grief Support Group What is grief? Grief is a reaction to loss. The way we experience grief is very individual; we each grieve in our own way. There are no universal “stages” to grief – it is as individual as a fingerprint or a snowflake. People may have different “styles” of grieving. Some The post Abode Hospice Grief Support appeared first on Abode Hospice & Home Health.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Nurse burnout has been an Important topic of discussion for years, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated what already seemed like a disaster set in motion long before SARS-CoV-2 stormed our shores. Meanwhile, physicians have been no strangers to burnout.

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Changing Lives Podcast

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Fund Development Steering Committee Meeting Date: March 7, 2023 Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm Location: ZOOM meeting (see link below) Join Zoom Meeting [link] Meeting ID: 889 2650 7289 Passcode: 217785 Agenda

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Nurse Nacole

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Joint enlargement in osteoarthritis due to the formation of osteophytes may be observed. Osteophyte formation in the DIP joint is called Heberden nodes. In the proximal interphalangeal joint, it is referred to as Bouchard nodes.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Rhonda R. Foster, EdD, MPH, MS, RN, is the principal consultant at Stamp and Chase. Dr. Foster is a published and highly sought-after healthcare consultant and coach with a penchant for driving change, quality, and organizational improvement. Dr. Foster’s consultation experience has allowed her to provide expertise in the U.S. in community hospitals, academic medical centers, and healthcare systems and hospitals in Brazil, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar.

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Always Best Care Senior Services

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Shawn Cothran Now Leads Award-Winning Senior Care Services in Wake County Always Best Care Senior Services, one of the leading senior care franchise systems in the United States, announced today that Shawn Cothran is the new owner of the Wake Forest-North Raleigh franchise. Always Best Care of Wake Forest-North Raleigh has been serving Wake County residents since 2009 and is one of nine Always Best Care agencies across North Carolina.

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Nurse.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When news broke in late January that more than 7,600 nurses in the United States bought fraudulent nursing degree diplomas, nursing regulatory organizations had already been working with the FBI to help uncover the scam. At the Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission in Washington State, the early warning signs began a year and a half ago. The organization started receiving applications for licensure with school transcripts containing uncharacteristic — yet subtle — differences from typical tr

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In a world of constant chatter, revolving news streams, and search for the latest and greatest viral trend, there is a skill to shutting it all out and going back to the basics. In the realm of rehab that often means appreciating what makes our services unique and in the regulatory sense “skilled.” Skilled therapy services may be necessary to improve a patient’s current condition, to maintain the patient’s current condition, or to prevent or slow further deterioration of the patient’s condition.

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