Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2024

After five years of planning, the post-acute services provider AccentCare recently re-organized its bereavement care services, which are now coordinated from a national center. This centralization was designed to ensure consistency in its grief care operations and to ensure comparable quality across the company’s national footprint, Yelena Zatulovsky, vice-president of patient experience for AccentCare, said at the Home Care 100 Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2024

Nursing has long held a top spot in Gallup polls of most-trusted professions, and a recent survey gave nurses another professional boost. A Gallup 2023 Health and Healthcare survey , conducted Nov. 1-21, landed nurses at the top of the list of excellence of care. Eighty-two percent of survey respondents to the Gallup poll reported that nurses provide “excellent or good” medical care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Stanford Medicine Children’s Health recently developed a new palliative care team designed to help improve access and quality among underserved pediatric populations. The pediatric palliative team is taking a three-tiered approach to care delivery that includes building collaborative relationships with health care providers across the continuum, according to Dr.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2024

Eight Springer Publishing titles won the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards for 2023 , with two first-place, four second-place, and two third-place titles. The AJN Book of the Year program is a time-honored and prestigious competition honoring exceptional print and digital texts for advancing healthcare quality in nursing by exploring and advancing critical topics in health and healthcare since 1969.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Recent research shows that social determinants of health programs can help improve pain and symptom management for end-of-life patients in underserved communities. A recent study published in the Annals of Surgical Oncology found disparities in pain management among Black, Asian and Hispanic cancer patient populations, based on variation in the availability of social determinants of health services.

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Elaine Mansfield

JANUARY 23, 2024

tubes and machines and ventilators I hear my husband Vic’s favorite words when he felt pounded by life. “Sometimes you’re the hammer. Sometimes you’re the anvil.” This week I was the anvil being hammered by viral bronchitis, but I’m not alone and know others going through much harder times. I have friends and sons encouraging and supporting me.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 23, 2024

Category: Fundamentals Tracheal suctioning is required to remove secretions or aspirated material from the upper airway in patients whose cough is impaired or in whom an artificial airway is in place.

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Palliverse

JANUARY 23, 2024

Photo by Mike Coker on Unsplash He wanted to go home. It wasn’t going to be easy, but that’s what he wanted most of all. To go back to where it had all begun. Back to his ancestral home. He was at risk of dying on the way but it was important that he at least try. It wouldn’t be easy for his family. There was much less formal support available in the small town he was born in.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 23, 2024

One of the primary responsibilities of caregivers is to ensure the comfort and well-being of those in their care. One common issue that can significantly affect the quality of life for bedridden patients is the development of bed sores, also known as pressure ulcers. These painful sores occur due to prolonged pressure on certain parts of the body, usually as a result of staying in one position for too long.

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Comfort Home Care

JANUARY 23, 2024

Seniors grapple with daily challenges stemming from age-related health issues. Often, their families are scattered across different cities, making in-home care services all the more essential. In Rockville MD, the senior population has steadily grown, and these services have evolved from conveniences to critical lifelines. Comfort Home Care shares how home healthcare services provide vital medical support for seniors and individuals with disabilities and how they impact the lives of both the cli

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Palliverse

JANUARY 23, 2024

Date Night by James Jap Most hospice rooms will have do not disturb signs which can be hung on the door handle to indicate that you don’t want people to come in. Who are these signs for? Are they there for the patient or the clinicians? We hang the do not disturb sign on when we see patients as we do not want our clinical assessment to be disturbed and to maintain the patient’s privacy.

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