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How Hospices Are Innovating Clinical Onboarding

Hospice News

Having peer-support and employee feedback loops are key pieces in some hospices’ onboarding models. Rising demand for hospice amid prolific clinical workforce shortages has providers laser-focused on effective recruitment and retention strategies. It’s getting doses of training that are more meaningful.”

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Ep. 30 - Caring for Underserved Patients in Rural and Urban Settings

HPNA podcast

In this episode, we welcome Tracy Fasolino and Mansara Hassan, board members from the Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) and the Hospice & Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF), Moderated by Lynn Reinke, this episode discusses the considerations surrounding caring for underserved patients in rural and urban settings.

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NHPCO Welcomes Incoming Vice President of Quality

NHPCO

Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) today announced it has hired a new Vice President of Quality, Dr. Aparna Gupta DNP, FACHE, CPHQ, CRNP. Gupta said, “I look forward to working with the hospice and palliative care communities to improve the quality of patient care.

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Why I Practice Dying: A Nurse’s Perspective

AJN Off the Charts

I’ve had a good life!” She stayed home with hospice, surrounded by Dad and her four children. I had begun PhD studies in nursing. I interviewed 10 dying mothers and their adult caregiving daughters in hospice at home about their relationships. When I reached my early 50s and she was 78, she was diagnosed with ALS.

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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

And we can promote access to palliative care and advance care planning and to supports like social workers and chaplains if we see those would be helpful—and to hospice when that’s appropriate. But most tell me that’s never where they wanted to end up and certainly not where they wanted to die.

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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. Hospice visits? ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. We talk about how wonderful is hospice? Doing home care?

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In the Nick of Time: Advance Care Planning in the ICU

AJN Off the Charts

Subsequently, her cancer treatment was deemed ineffective and she chose home hospice, which she received for weeks as opposed to just days. She was very thorough in completing it all and we had a profound conversation. When we were done, I asked her resident to witness the advance directive, something he’d never done before.