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How to leverage client surveys and feedback to market your agency and grow your home care business

AlayaCare

We all know that the first step to solving a problem is acknowledging that there is a problem – but what if you don’t know about it in the first place? Use client surveys to get your answers.   Did you know that  77% of people who are 50+  want to age in their community for as long as possible? Older adults want to age in place. The rise of hospital at-home   initiatives are making this wish a reality for many.

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Don’t Assume! Three Big “Don’t Assume” Situations Caregivers Must Avoid

Caregiver Warrior

It's never good to assume anything but here are some truly important things we should never assume. The post Don’t Assume! Three Big “Don’t Assume” Situations Caregivers Must Avoid appeared first on Caregiver Warrior.

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3 Strategies to Help Nurse Leaders Tackle the Rise in Workplace Bullying and Burnout

Healthy Workforce Institute

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound changes within our healthcare system. Now more than ever, nurses are being challenged with a barrage of never-ending stressors: continued patient surges, new disease variants, high patient acuity, increased job demands, and continued staffing and PPE shortages. High levels of stress and burnout coupled with the unpredictable nature of the pandemic, have created an environment that is ripe for burnout, workplace bullying, and incivility.

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Episode 38: LWH Q&A #1

Living With Hospice

In this episode of Living With Hospice, Mitch makes good on a promise made during the first episode to answer questions that readers have submitted over time. In this episode, we discuss active dying, telling our loved ones that we are out of treatment options, accepting the choice when someone chooses Hospice over curative care and finally, we get an update on Mitch's animal co-hosts. " By the way, did you know we have listeners on every continent in the world with exception to Antarctica?

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The Ultimate Guide to Improving Caregiver Engagement & Retention

Want to learn how to retain your caregivers & improve caregiver retention X3? The home care industry is experiencing turnover rates of over 80%. How are you ensuring your agency is retaining caregivers? This FREE eBook from Smartcare Software is packed with industry secrets needed to keep your caregivers happy, engaged, and retained, unlocking the full potential of your agency.

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How to leverage client surveys and feedback to market your agency and grow your home care business

AlayaCare

We all know that the first step to solving a problem is acknowledging that there is a problem – but what if you don’t know about it in the first place? Use client surveys to get your answers. ?. Did you know that ?77% of people who are 50+ ?want to age in their community for as long as possible??Older adults want to age in place. The rise of hospital at-home ?

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Late Summer Book Review!

Caregiver Warrior

Here's a fun book review to ward off the end of summer blues! The post Late Summer Book Review! appeared first on Caregiver Warrior.

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Reducing Unconscious Bias in Healthcare Recruitment

Diversity Nursing

As the U.S. population becomes more racially and culturally diverse, having a workforce that mirrors the diversity of your community can improve the quality of care offered at your facility. Ensuring diversity is incorporated in healthcare hiring practices requires understanding and combatting unconscious biases. Bias is a prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another usually in a way that’s considered to be unfair.

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Professionals’, patients’ and families’ views on the use of opioids for chronic breathlessness: A systematic review using the framework method and pillar process

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

This episode features Florence Reedy (Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, UK). Chronic breathlessness is a prevalent symptom amongst patients with advanced medical conditions. In combination with disease-modifying therapies and non-pharmacological interventions, regular low dose opioids may safely reduce moderate to severe chronic breathlessness due to advanced medical conditions.

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Are You Asking People to Tell You Your Name?

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

Seriously, if you do this, please stop asking people living with dementia to tell you your name when you greet them. Don't start the conversation with a test they might fail along with your hurt feelings when they do fail. Just say your name and who you are. If they decide to give you another name, that may be okay, too. Don't say that person has been dead ten years, and you told them that 925 times.

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Top Home Health Nurse Documentation Updates for 2022 That Actually Affect Your Paycheck

The Productive Home Health Nurse

What a year for home health nurse documentation and nurses… Our COVID song continues…. PDGM has taken over home health nurse documentation…. Home health nurse documentation timeframes are on speed…. And now, Value-Based Purchasing is adding more heat to your already smoke-filled kitchen?! We started the year with PDGM or the Patient-Driven Group Model as our new payment system.

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The ‘work’ of managing medications when someone is seriously ill and dying at home: A longitudinal qualitative case study of patient and family perspectives’

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

This episode features Dr Eleanor Wilson (Nottingham Centre for the Advancement of Research in End of Life Care, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham Medical School, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK) Managing medications at home can be a complex task involving ordering, collecting, organising, storing and taking medications correctly.

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Racism in palliative care

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

This episode features Jamilla Akhter Hussain (Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull York Medical School, Hull, UK), Jonathan Koffman (Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, London, UK) and Sabrina Bajwah (Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, London, UK).

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Effectiveness of two types of palliative home care in cancer and non-cancer patients: A retrospective population-based study using claims data

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

This episode features Dr Markus Krause (Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany) and Dr Antje Freytag (Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany). Palliative homecare is an important component of palliative care, and it has a positive impact on the quality of care at the end-of-life.