Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A systematic overhaul of the nation’s health care education programs is needed to ensure that future clinicians are prepared to provide palliative and hospice care amid rising demand, according to Dr. Leah McDonald of HopeHealth. McDonald is a hospice and palliative care physician at HopeHealth. The nonprofit health system offers home health, hospice and palliative care in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In 1982 Eric Cassell published his landmark essay: On the Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included.

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Caregiver Warrior

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

We all want to avoid surprises. Here are some great tips for getting the info you need to be prepared! The post Essential caregiver tools that help you avoid health care surprises and stay informed! appeared first on Caregiver Warrior.

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HopeHealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When Phil saw the ad for hospice volunteers in Massachusetts, he wasn’t sure if a guy like him could help. But he knew he wanted to try. The post The reason I do this: How a hospice volunteer finds his purpose appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Life & Death Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Written by Misha Butot It seems that all of us, young and old, will at times feel confused, upset, and filled with uncertainty when faced with a life-limiting illness or facing death. At those times it can be especially helpful to have someone with us who is able to listen to us and help by […] The post Learning ways to calm distress can change your life!

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

In this week’s blog Debra Ritsperis Head of Quality @DRitsperis, Isolde Newbury ACRT @AcuteResponse, Rebecca Wood Paediatric Matron @becky_RWood, Kaylea Roffe Data Manager @roffe_kaylea, Natalie Tomms Communications Lead, outline how the worries and concerns pilot project (April 2023-March 2024) has been implemented across at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust @GHFT_Excellence @gloshospitals Other Project Team members: Suzie Cro Deputy Director of Quality Programme Director Nursing a

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Please join Eric and Alex in person for the GeriPal pub crawl at the AAHPM/HPNA annual assembly in Phoenix, Thursday night 3/21 8PM. Starting bar TBD, look for the GeriPal post, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** Today we celebrate eight years, around 2 million listens, and 300 podcasts! Eric and I take questions from you, our listeners, about: why we podcast, our most controversial podcast, which podcast changed our practice, favorite song req

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Kimberly Cook, RN, BSN, is a highly accomplished nurse leader with a 30-year career in the healthcare industry. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a nursing degree and became a nurse in the Army early in her career. During wartime, Cook showed her dedication and commitment to patient care, which instilled in her a profound sense of duty, resilience, and an unwavering ability to thrive under pressure.

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HopeHealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Valentine’s Day is often full of memories, which can bring on intense feelings of loss. If you’re grieving, here are tips to get through the day. The post Tips for coping with grief on Valentine’s Day appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Life & Death Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Written by Kath Murray and Misha Butot. As part of Valentine’s Day this year, we are considering the role of love in your professional practice. We invite you to reflect on what might be considered a “loving” way, a “compassionate” way, of engaging in providing holistic health and psychosocial care through the life trajectory and […] The post Incorporating Love In Professional Practice appeared first on Life and Death Matters.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Natural materials, indoor plants, and essential oils are simple yet effective ways to turn your home into a soothing and comfortable sanctuary. Even the simple addition of houseplants has been found to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and improve overall state of mind. Unfortunately, chronic occupational stress and burnout occur daily among nurses due to long shifts, high workload, and low staffing levels, with difficulty relaxing and disconnecting from work being a key symptom, a study in

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A federal jury has convicted Dr. John Thropay, a hospice medical director, on charges of health care fraud in a $2.8 million scheme. Thropay was the medical director of several hospice companies, including Blue Sky Hospice, based in Van Nuys, California. He was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and four counts of health care fraud.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block , she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement. As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Basing your nursing practice on the latest evidence and research remains critical to providing optimal patient care. Practicing nursing based on tradition, “ how we ’ ve always done it,” or outdated research can lead to poor patient outcomes, inappropriate care, or serious errors. No doubt you studied evidence-based practice (EBP) in school, read it in journals or attended in-service sessions about using evidence in practice.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When abusive parents need caregiving, adult children often face a difficult decision. A contract often exists between parents and children, whether spoken or not: Parents protect and care for their child when the child is most vulnerable, and in return, the child as an adult cares for their parents in their old age. But what happens when parents break that contract by abusing or neglecting their child?

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Caring Senior Service

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As we age, our mouths and teeth change, which can cause problems if not addressed. Plus, a healthy smile boosts confidence and contributes to overall well-being. So, how does aging affect our mouths? And what can we do to maintain good oral health as we get older?

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

February 4th to 10th is National Burn Awareness Week , and Daily Nurse is recognizing the specialized work of burn nurses. Burn nurses are known for their exceptional skills, commitment, and unwavering dedication to patient care. They work tirelessly to treat individuals who have been affected by burn injuries and to advocate for burn injury prevention within their communities.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Recent research has uncovered some of the leading barriers preventing greater pediatric palliative care utilization across underserved communities. Seriously ill children of color are among the most underserved patient populations , with a recent analysis digging into the focal points of systematic racial issues tied to health disparities. Children in racial and ethnic minority groups often receive poorer quality compared to white pediatric patients, according to the analysis , published in The

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Patients are often aware of all the nurses who care for them during a medical procedure, and particularly the perianesthesia nurses who are fierce patient advocates during a time when patients are under and emerging from sedation. As PeriAnesthesia Nurse Awareness Week (this year from February 5-11) celebrates all the work nurses do in this specialty and helps raise awareness of perianesthesia nursing as a career path.

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Community Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Dedicated, compassionate, and resilient family caregivers are the backbone of a loving and supportive environment for our patients. In honor of National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Education Week , we aim to acknowledge and celebrate these incredible efforts. Caregivers, let’s prioritize your self-care as a small gesture for the extraordinary work you do!

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Together for Short Lives

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This morning, BBC News published a hugely important article, showing how many families across the country caring for severely disabled children cannot access the continuing care they qualify for because of where they live. It isn’t right that their access to this lifeline care depends on where they live, and we are working to end […] The post The postcode lottery of care must end: our statement on today’s BBC News article appeared first on Together for Short Lives.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work with psychiatric patients? Surely, it’s not like many movies and television shows have portrayed. Not even close. To get more information about becoming a psychiatric nurse , we interviewed Jessica Martinez, RN, a Behavioral Health Registered Nurse working on CareRev’s platform at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, New Jersey.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Hospice operators in 2024 are navigating a rapidly transforming environment. The prior three years have laid the groundwork for change, particularly in the regulatory space as well as gradual migration towards value-based reimbursement and in tandem, the proliferation of business lines beyond hospice. Meanwhile, providers are also rolling with the ups-and-downs of a market ripe for further consolidation after 2023’s M&A slump as workforce headwinds persist.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary We’ve talked about Falls a couple of times on this podcast, most recently with Tom Gill about the STRIDE study and before that with Sarah Szanton about the CAPABLE study. A takeaway from those podcasts is that fresh innovative thinking in the falls prevention space is welcome. Today we talk with the twin sister power duo of Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates about an intervention that is both brilliant and (in retrospect) should have been obvious.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Suzette Porter, MBA, BSN, RN, is an elder care nurse manager and adjunct faculty member who has been with Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) for over 25 years. Porter says she got into healthcare because her great-grandmother raised her and was the Florence Nightingale in their small town in Jamaica. She would take Porter to help the sick, elderly, and needy in their hometown.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Wednesday 21 February 2024 in the UK marked its 6 th annual Mental Health Nurses’ Day. The day promotes and celebrates the unique and valuable role played by mental health nurses to health and wellbeing. There are approximately 300,000 mental health nurses worldwide and they represent the largest proportion of staff in the mental health care workforce with responsibility for patient care 1.

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NHPCO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For Immediate Release February 27, 2024 (Alexandria, Va) – In 2023, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) hosted the Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) series, Equity Where It Matters , consisting of bimonthly sessions on a wide variety of topics related to increasing access to equitable serious illness and end-of-life care.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Have you ever heard a nurse pass judgment on a colleague and say that another nurse isn’t a “real nurse”? Have you noticed some nurses looking down on those who choose to be school nurses or work in home health, dialysis, assisted living, medical offices, or ambulatory surgery? Judgmental attitudes by one group of nurses against another don’t do anyone any favors, but such thinking is all too common.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! A bill to strengthen support for family caregivers is working its way through Congress. If enacted, it would create tax credits to help offset the financial burdens of caring for the seriously ill.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As hospice nurses, we embark on a journey filled with compassion, empathy, and the desire to provide comfort to those in their final stages of life. However, along the way, we inevitably encounter ethical dilemmas that challenge our values and decision-making skills. In this article, we’ll explore some common ethical dilemmas in end of life care faced by hospice nurses, and I’ll share personal stories that shed light on how to navigate these challenging situations with grace and inte

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Health disparities have historically impacted multiple populations throughout the U.S. When it comes to health and access to healthcare, consider the plight of Native Americans, undocumented immigrants, people experiencing homelessness and the chronically mentally ill, and rural communities in places like Appalachia, and we see a picture of what’s broken.

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Today's Caregiver

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

At a recent Fearless Caregiver Conference, so many issues of importance to caregivers were raised that it could take up five columns, but I thought I would touch on one that is surprisingly not mentioned enough by event attendees – anger

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Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Nashville, TN – Traditions Health of Tulsa, OK has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Hospice Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The Gold Seal is a symbol of quality that reflects a healthcare organization’s commitment to providing safe and quality patient care. The Tulsa hospice branch underwent a rigorous, unannounced onsite review.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Research into psychedelic-assisted therapy receives funding in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024. In an epoch marked by rapid innovation in mental health treatments, a paradigm shift is on the horizon for the well-being of our armed forces personnel. Psychedelic-assisted therapy has surfaced as an innovative intervention for ailments such as depression, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and—perhaps most widely applicable to military personnel—post-traumatic stress disorder

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Rising wages, reimbursement pressures and immigration policies are fueling high turnover rates for hospice and personal care aides. Similar trends are proliferating among hospitals and health systems that provide these services. Current reimbursement structures for aide services represent the most significant challenge in maintaining a sufficient workforce, according to Kenneth Albert, president and CEO of Maine-based Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice.

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