Sustainable Caregiving
OCTOBER 28, 2022
It is helpful to understand the type of caregiver anxiety we are experiencing so that we use the proper techniques to counter the effects. For example, mental anxiety can be aggravated by trying to problem-solve with thoughts.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Without family caregivers, many hospice patients would be unable to receive care in their homes.
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Minority Nurse
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Nurses are lauded for their calm and focused manner when everything around them is erupting, but emergency nurses bring this laser focus to their jobs every day.
HopeHealth
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Denis Lynch was a silent monk for 16 years. Today, he’s a hospice chaplain. Here’s how his path led to HopeHealth, and the lessons along the way. The post Knocking on doors: How a silent monk became a hospice chaplain appeared first on HopeHealth. HopeHealth Blog Hospice Care
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GeriPal
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Summary Transcript Summary. Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing.
Hospice Volunteering
OCTOBER 16, 2022
This is a lovely piece about Margaret Anderson, who founded Ian Anderson House, a hospice in Oakville Ontario 25 years ago. She had cared for her husband when he was dying and wanted to make sure that others could have the same kind of care. I’d heard of the hospice but never knew the story behind it.
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Hospice News
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them. This was the impetus behind the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), which emerged from an Oct. 8, 2005 meeting of health care leaders in South Korea.
AlayaCare
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Demand for home infusion pharmacy services is booming, with several more years of sustained growth forecasted. This is a landmark opportunity for the industry to continue its transformation to incorporate more Hospital-at-Home care.
HopeHealth
OCTOBER 11, 2022
More than 12 years ago, Nancy Reiser picked up the phone and dialed HopeHealth’s volunteer team. She was interested in learning about the end-of-life experience, she explained.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Summary Transcript Summary. When I’m on service these days there is inevitably a moment when a resident says “Patient so-and-so is on X” – and I have absolutely no idea what X is. Modern subspecialist practice advances at such a remarkably rapid pace, it can be hard to keep up.
Nurse.com
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Unmet needs for mental health care is creating opportunities for nurses, both new and experienced, in multiple care settings. With the demand for mental health nurses, the possibilities are wide-open, well-paying — and impressively diverse.
Daily Nurse
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Carolyn Booker, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, chief nursing officer of Northside Hospital Forsyth in Cumming, Georgia, was troubled by how violence was making its way into places she considered sacred, like hospitals, churches, and schools, and thought kindness could provide an antidote.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Wisconsin-based Agrace Hospice and Supportive Care is implementing a plan to become carbon neutral by 2025. The move will ultimately help to ensure sustainable services for patients in more ways than one, according to executives.
AlayaCare
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Demand for home infusion pharmacy services is booming, with several more years of sustained growth forecasted. This is a landmark opportunity for the industry to continue its transformation to incorporate more Hospital-at-Home care.
HopeHealth
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Home care physical therapy meets patients in the intimacy of home, tackling the specific challenges of the environment where they live. A physical therapist shares what it’s like. The post On the road with a home care physical therapist appeared first on HopeHealth. Home Care HopeHealth Blog
GeriPal
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Summary Transcript Summary. Dr. Faith Fitzgerald once quipped that prognostic modeling is the “punctilious quantification of the amorphous.” She has a point. Prognosis is inherently uncertain.
Nurse.com
OCTOBER 19, 2022
For nurses, compassion fatigue can mean disruptions to their emotional and physical health. It can manifest itself as headaches, anxiousness, changes in appetite, or mood swings.
Daily Nurse
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Are you a recruiter or healthcare manager looking for an edge on what nurses want and how to attract quality nurse applicants?
Hospice News
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. 31, 2021, according to a new CMMI white paper.
AlayaCare
OCTOBER 14, 2022
On Oct 4th, 2022, Home Health Care News, in partnership with AlayaCare, hosted a webinar: “Growth Strategies for Home Care Agencies”.
HopeHealth
OCTOBER 14, 2022
If you’re living with serious illness, palliative care can transform your life. But due to common myths, not enough patients understand how. Here’s what palliative care is — and isn’t. The post 7 common myths about palliative care appeared first on HopeHealth. HopeHealth Blog Palliative Care
GeriPal
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Summary Transcript Summary. The Department of Health and Human Services helps to guide billions of dollars in investment and direction in research, policy, and health care.
Nurse.com
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Solutions such as newly required nurse-led staffing committees aim to end unsafe nursing ratios that compromise patient safety. . At a recent conference, a group of nurse leaders came up with this catch phrase, “You cannot fix it with a pizza day.”. “It’s
Daily Nurse
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Falls in two long-term care facilities dropped by 43% after installing a dynamic LED lighting program tuned to natural sleep and wake rhythms, according to a study by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Midwest Lighting Institute.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Hospices and Accountable Care Organizations have the ability to customize payment contracts within the Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) program. Effective Jan. 1, 2023, the U.S.
AlayaCare
OCTOBER 13, 2022
On Oct 4th, 2022, Home Health Care News, in partnership with AlayaCare, hosted a webinar: “Growth Strategies for Home Care Agencies”.
HopeHealth
OCTOBER 1, 2022
From learning to live safely with a chronic condition to getting back to 100% after an injury, physical therapy builds patients’ strength, skills — and confidence. The post 5 ways physical therapy empowers patients appeared first on HopeHealth. Home Care HopeHealth Blog
Caring Senior Service
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Our mental health is just as important as our physical health. Mental health includes emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing. It encompasses how you feel toward yourself and others, how you cope with stress, and how you make good choices.
Nurse.com
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Content courtesy of IntelyCare. Nurses are learners. We learn when we are assessing our patients, implementing (yet another) new procedure or policy, and when we have new treatments and medicines to administer.
Daily Nurse
OCTOBER 13, 2022
If you want to work at a Magnet hospital, here are points to consider before making a move. What is a Magnet Hospital? Magnet status is awarded to hospitals as a recognition of excellence in nursing. Hospitals are evaluated on several criteria.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Only 10 new Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will offer home-based palliative care as a primarily health-related benefit for 2023, but payers may be offering those services through other programs.
AlayaCare
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Specialty pharmacies are experiencing booming growth in the home care infusion service market. This trend has been predicted for several years – driven by patient preferences, cost savings measures and readmission rate reduction targets.
Happy Healthy Caregiver
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Now, I know you might be thinking, “It’s not even Thanksgiving yet, why is she putting out a Holiday Gift Guide?”
Minority Nurse
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Healthcare is a dynamic field with countless opportunities for advancement and growth, with nurses poised at the forefront as hospitals attempt to meet the pressures to treat, educate and manage our aging U.S. population.
Nurse.com
OCTOBER 25, 2022
It has happened again. On October 22, 2022, workplace violence claimed the lives of two healthcare professionals from Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Texas.
Daily Nurse
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Lehigh Valley Health Network’s (LVHN) first-of-its-kind documentary honors its nurses by sharing stories about their heroic work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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