Sustainable Caregiving

JANUARY 19, 2023

“Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They’re compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.” Brené Brown The Boundaries Burnout Connection Setting, modifying, and reinforcing boundaries can prevent caregiver burnout. You may be wondering, what are boundaries, what … Prevent Caregiver Burnout with Boundaries Read More » The post Prevent Caregiver Burnout with Boundaries appeared fir

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2023

To a certain extent, hospices will soon be operating under pre-pandemic rules in a “post-COVID” world. With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) going away on May 11, many of the temporary flexibilities that came with it are expected to end, though Congress did extend some through 2024, including hospice re-certifications via telehealth. The flexibilities enabled hospice and palliative care providers to maintain continuity of care while reducing safety risks, according to Ben Marcantonio,

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Adobe Hospice & Home Health

JANUARY 30, 2023

Understanding Palliative Care Compared to Hospice Care Some older adults and people with serious illnesses, unfortunately, experience the end of life in certain healthcare settings that do not align with their desired wishes. If you have a serious illness or are a caregiver of someone planning end-of-life care, knowing the difference between palliative care and The post Comparing Palliative & Hospice Care appeared first on Abode Hospice & Home Health.

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Aging Life Care Association

JANUARY 23, 2023

Dr. Alisa Kaufman, a dentist specializing in geriatric care, shares her expertise to help caregivers become more confident in providing daily oral care to seniors — whether by brushing, flossing and using picks, or removing and cleaning full or partial dentures. Below is first in a two-part series of a caregivers guide to oral care. … Continue reading Caregivers Guide to Oral Care → The post Caregivers Guide to Oral Care appeared first on Aging Life Care Association.

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Caregiver Warrior

JANUARY 26, 2023

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HopeHealth

JANUARY 12, 2023

In her eight years as a hospice aide, Darlene Morse has helped patients and families through their most vulnerable moments. “I feel honored to do this work,” she says. The post Finding the spark: The special calling of a hospice aide appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

More providers are investing in virtual reality (VR) programs as a growing body of research shows that it can ease pain symptoms and improve outcomes for palliative care patients. Virtual reality technology can reduce the use of high-cost pain therapy services and medications, according to Dr. Joseph Shega, executive vice president and chief medical officer of VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp (NYSE: CHE).

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 31, 2023

As the world was rapidly transformed by the pandemic, many business owners struggled to keep their businesses afloat. April Hansen , Group President of Workforce Solutions at Aya Healthcare , had a different experience. She successfully achieved rapid growth as the pandemic hit and changed the healthcare and home care industry. Aya Healthcare specializes in finding work for nurses and other caregivers in the healthcare industry (including home care).

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Sustainable Caregiving

JANUARY 19, 2023

“Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They’re compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.” Brené Brown The Boundaries Burnout Connection Setting, modifying, and reinforcing boundaries can prevent caregiver burnout. You may be wondering, what are boundaries, what … Prevent Burnout with Boundaries Read More » The post Prevent Burnout with Boundaries appeared first on Sustainable Ca

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 26, 2023

Nurses are some of the most versatile, widely skilled healthcare professionals, so if you’re a nurse that loves to camp and backpack, now may be the right time to add some wilderness medicine skills to your professional toolkit. Nurses say they like spending their free time traveling, exercising, and exploring the great outdoors.

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HopeHealth

JANUARY 18, 2023

Palliative care is an extra layer of care — but for many people living with cancer, this “extra” is essential. Here’s why. The post What palliative care means for people living with cancer appeared first on HopeHealth.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. It’s massive with over 600 pages detailing everything from the history of nursing home care in the United States to the latest issues that nursing homes have had to face with COVID-19.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2023

Mortality predictions and behavioral nudges by machine learning systems are associated with increased advance care planning utilization and reductions in high-acuity care. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recently studied the effectiveness of machine learning algorithms in identifying high-risk cancer patients nearing the last six months of life between June 17, 2019 and April 20, 2020.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 26, 2023

How Interoperability in Software Can Streamline Your Home Care Processes As a home care business, it’s essential to ensure that you have the right software solutions in place to provide quality care for your clients. One of the most important considerations when selecting home care software is whether it has interoperability capabilities. Interoperability is the ability of different systems and applications to communicate and exchange data with each other seamlessly.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Daring to utter the words ‘social media’ amongst a group of healthcare professionals can often prompt the same response as the infamous ‘q’ word*. Whilst pained sighs, words of concern or even just uncomfortable silences might be how we respond, are we turning our backs on possible answers to the known failures in communication across healthcare globally?

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 13, 2023

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) is celebrating the news that U.S News & World Report, for the second year in a row, ranked the nurse practitioner (NP) role first on its “2023 Best Health Care Jobs” list and second on its “100 Best Jobs of 2023” list. The annual rankings consider “… the most important aspects of a job […].

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HopeHealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

Providence, RI: HopeHealth, a regional leader in home care, palliative and hospice care, today announced that three new members are joining its board of directors: • Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie, MD, MBA, FAC, director of hospital medicine at The Miriam Hospital • Susan DeSanto-Madeya, PhD, APRN-CNS, FAAN, Miriam Weyker Endowed Chair for Palliative Care, University of Rhode Read More The post Dapaah-Afriyie, DeSanto-Madeya and Kydd join HopeHealth board of directors appeared first on HopeHealth.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary The Covid epidemic laid bare two major structural issues. First, Black and Latinx persons experienced much higher rates of mortality than other groups. Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. These are structural issues because the fundamental causes of these issues were not biological issues, they were social.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The number of hospice volunteers plunged during the first two years of the pandemic, and many are still working to rebuild their ranks. Many hospices saw volunteer volumes dip drastically as they suspended activities during the pandemic. Roughly 78% of hospice and palliative care providers around the globe indicated “less or much less” use of volunteers since the pandemic’s onset, according to a 2022 study in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 23, 2023

Elevating the User Experience: How we improved our mobile app at AlayaCare From Good to Great: User-centric mobiles app improvements When you partner with AlayaCare, system updates are good news. And we’ve recently made some improvements to the AlayaCare Caregiver mobile app that we’re especially excited to share with our customers. Day in, and day out, our mission is to deliver the most people-centered software for care providers.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 16, 2023

If you want to be a badass nurse who confidently uses LinkedIn to accelerate your nursing career, here are ten spicy tips for success from international nurse coach Farah Laurent , MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CPXP, NPD-BC, TCRN, CPEN, CEN. Do your research. I have been a LinkedIn member for many years; however, It was only in 2021 that I truly realized the power of LinkedIn and all that it has to offer.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 3, 2023

Medicine and technology have continuously operated hand-in-glove, and never has that been more true than today — and this is all the more reason for nurses to prioritize tech literacy if they want to be the best nurse they can be. Nursing is the ultimate caring profession, but nursing is also a science. Making it […].

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Nurse.com

JANUARY 12, 2023

You’ve done all the hard work of preparing for the interview for your dream job. This role has all of the things you’re looking for — the right hours, the right floor, and the right pay. You’ve nailed the interview and feel great about how it all went. Now it’s time to sit back, relax, and wait for your offer. Or is it? Don’t relax too quickly — there’s one more, often forgotten step.

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Solace

JANUARY 6, 2023

Every year, January brings a flurry of new laws as states around the country add or update legislation on everything from new state holidays to jaywalking. In 2023, some new laws will impact those at the end of life or the people caring for, or grieving, them. Here’s a curated list of those laws we think are most impactful to both groups. Bereavement leave and caregiving.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found. Researchers analyzed records for 43,200 veterans with prior hospitalization who had received primary care at a VA site between October 2016 and September 2019. They found a 95% increase in hospice or palliative utilization among veterans served by VA providers participating in the agency’s Social Work Patient Aligned C

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 18, 2023

Leading provider of specialty pharmacy and home infusion in North America selects AlayaCare Cloud to be compliant with the Cures Act and the Electronic Visit Verification mandates for skilled care and home infusion services RICHMOND HILL, N.Y.—18 th January 2023—AlayaCare , a developer of home and community care technology, today announced that KabaFusion , a leading provider of home infusion therapies, chose AlayaCare Cloud as its next generation digital platform to address market growth.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 26, 2023

In healthcare and nursing, there’s always so much in our career we can say no to; however, there are plenty of things we find ourselves saying yes to. Granted, it’s always empowering to say no to things like working a double shift when you’re exhausted, accepting bullying and incivility as normal, working without adequate PPE, and unsafe staffing levels that put your license and your patients at risk.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 31, 2023

According to the annual Gallup poll, Americans trust nurses more than any other profession for the twenty-second consecutive year. Nurses are viewed as having “very high” or “high” ethical and honesty standards by 79% of U.S.

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Nurse.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

Earthquakes. Blizzards. Hurricanes. Natural disasters disrupt the daily functions of health care and leave nurses feeling strained and overwhelmed. Finding and practicing stress management strategies during these events can help nurses cope with stress and mitigate its effects. Day to day, nurses are on the front lines caring for patients and balancing various clinical tasks.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JANUARY 22, 2023

Hilde Buiting, PhD With Femke Botman, MSc, Patrick Brown, PhD, Vincent Ho, MSc, Gabe Sonke, MD, PhD Patients with incurable cancer often do not perceive themselves as “palliative”, a connotation they more commonly associate with impending death. Instead, these patients often prefer the word “chronic.” On the basis of nurses’ experiences we would like to initiate a new understanding of incurable cancer, partly due to new and better medication developments.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Hospices are increasingly leveraging technology and pharmaceutical partnerships to better address the needs of patients and families and improve financial and operational efficiencies. Hospices have leaned heavily on technology during the pandemic, turning to telehealth to remain connected to patients and their families. Hospices have also increasingly leveraged technology to build operational efficiencies during widespread workforce shortages and growing demand for care.

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Elder Care Matters

JANUARY 24, 2023

A Pay-On Death account is an estate planning tool that allows an individual to pass money to family or loved ones without the necessity of probate when he or she dies. Under a POD account, title and ownership of the account will automatically transfer to a named beneficiary upon the death of the owner, without… The post WHAT IS A PAY-ON-DEATH ACCOUNT?

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 31, 2023

Once again, the nursing profession tops career lists that use metrics as varied as trustworthiness, salary potential, and job growth to come out with high marks. Continuing its long-running streak, nursing ranked at the top of the most trusted professions for the 21st straight year in a recent annual Gallup poll. According to Gallup, those in the healthcare industry garnered the top spots overall, but the nursing profession beat out all other professions on the list with 79 percent of respondent

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 24, 2023

A virtual reality (VR) simulation helps undergraduate nursing students experience an emergency-care scenario from the perspective of an intubated patient. The scenario is intended to instill empathy that, contrary to popular belief, is a skill that can be acquired and strengthened.

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Nurse.com

JANUARY 31, 2023

As the nursing profession continues to expand and evolve, the interest in nurse entrepreneurship also grows. One of the most well-known resources for those interested in nurse entrepreneurship is NursePreneurs , founded by CEO, Catie Harris, PhD, MBA, RN. What started as a blog in 2016 focusing on teaching new nurses how to transition into nurse practitioner roles has evolved into a thriving business with over 14,000 nurses, 175 podcast episodes, and 250 businesses launched.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JANUARY 15, 2023

By Lexi Ilgner-McEvoy – Midwife, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. and Lucy Flatley – Midwifery Lecturer, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds @lucycflatley. Postpartum mood disorders are of major clinical and public health concern in the United Kingdom, where suicide is the leading cause of maternal death. The most recent MBRRACE-UK report highlighted a statistically significant increase in maternal deaths from psychiatric causes 1 lthough postpartum psychosis is rare with an incidence e

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