Sat.Oct 06, 2018 - Fri.Oct 12, 2018

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Forecast the Future: Leveraging Data to Predict Home Care Worker Churn

AlayaCare

Studies have shown that having at least 70 percent full-time employed nurses fosters continuity of care among many other benefits: reduced costs, better teamwork, and happier and more engaged staff. Under 70 percent, and the quality of client care can take a hit. Every time a home care worker churns or submits a resignation, it creates a series of challenges for both the organization and its clients: Each client associated to that employee needs to be reassigned to a new care worker.

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Palliative Care Chat - Episode 15 - Ten Tips From Palliative Care Pharmacists

Palliative Care Chat Podcast

In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson interviews three of her palliative care pharmacy colleagues with whom she recently co-authored a new paper titled "Ten Tips Palliative Care Pharmacists Want the Palliative Care Team to Know When Caring for Patients." In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson interviews three of her palliative care pharmacy colleagues with whom she recently co-authored a new paper titled "Ten Tips Palliative Care Pharmacists Want the Palliative C

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Pilot randomised controlled trial of focused narrative intervention for moderate to severe depression in palliative care patients: DISCERN trial.

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

This episode features Professor Mari Lloyd Williams (Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group, Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK). This was a pilot trial to determine the effect of a focused narrative intervention on depression in palliative care patients when used in addition to usual care.