Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. Hayley Powell, Clinical Operations Manager at PalliCare, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 29, 2023

Deborah Dolan Hunt, PhD, RN, is an experienced nurse, educator, writer, scholar, full professor at the Dr. Betty L. Forest Dean of the College of Nursing and Public Health at Adelphi University , and author of Springer Publishing’s Fast Facts for Patient Safety in Nursing. Hunt’s book is a practical resource for common preventable issues and their causes, including medication errors, patient falls, pressure ulcers, infections, and surgical errors.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is on the right track with several new rules designed to improve hospice program integrity, but some could use some fine-tuning, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The hospice advocacy group today issued public comments on CMS’s proposed home health rule for 2024.

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Diversity Nursing

AUGUST 29, 2023

Lately, the media has been filled with reports of devastating wildfires in Maui, destructive flooding in Vermont, and powerful tornadoes and earthquakes. These natural disasters serve as a reminder of the importance for Nurses to be prepared for any emergency. Nurses play a vital role in disaster response, and being well-prepared for natural disasters is crucial to ensure they can provide effective care during these emergencies.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

MetLife Inc. (NYSE: MET) is collaborating with Empathy to offer the bereavement care technology company’s platform to the insurance giant’s employees and beneficiaries. Bereavement care tech startup Empathy launched in 2021 with an app designed to help reduce the burden on grieving families and provide additional layers of emotional support. The Empathy app is designed to help families navigate the logistical aspects of bereavement, including documentation, funeral or memorial arrangements, vali

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Elaine Mansfield

AUGUST 29, 2023

This year, I rarely see an adult Monarch butterfly in the fields or in my butterfly garden. There are some out there because they leave evidence– a few tiny Monarch eggs deposited under milkweed leaves. It I search long enough, I might find three or four eggs in an hour. Sometimes I don’t find any. By mid August 2022, I’d released 160 Monarchs raised in my back porch nursery.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

AUGUST 29, 2023

In this weeks’ blog, Karen Patrick, Registered Children’s Nurse, Lecturer in Nursing (Child), MSc Health Studies, FHEA, reflects on her experiences talking to students about what is important to them about effective feedback. @karen_pattrick All feedback given within the practice environment should be positive and constructive Nursing students need opportunities to seek clarity about areas for development in a learning environment that is supportive, and with trusting professional relationships

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Nurse Nacole

AUGUST 29, 2023

Category: Psychiatric Nursing SSRIs are generally well tolerated, and toxicity in overdose is rare as compared to the TCAs, which partially explains why the SSRIs and SNRIs have largely supplanted the TCAs as first-line options.

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Hospice Chaplaincy

AUGUST 29, 2023

Dr. Saul Ebema When I think of spiritual care in the context of Hospice, I think of it as a movement in three vital rhythms: The traditional rhythm: In this rhythm, the hospice chaplain directs spiritual care through traditional methods of sacred texts, sacred symbols and rituals, devotionals, and communal worship.

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