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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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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

GeriPal

Hospice visits? ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. We talk today with Betty Ferrell, who has been a nurse for 47 years, and is the founder and PI of ELNEC. Doing home care? In the ICU at the bedside? Josh, welcome back to GeriPal. Josh: Thank you, you all.

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

AJN Off the Charts

There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer. Palliative care could prevent many ED visits. were made by patients with cancer.

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Why Spiritual Care?

AJN Off the Charts

The immense experiences of suffering, grief, loneliness, and burnout among nurses today call for a reexamination not only of our care delivery systems, but also of the personal frameworks through which we approach our nursing practice. Palliative nursing and ‘a deep examination of priorities.’

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

AJN Off the Charts

I also work as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center where I see the real-life aspects of advance care planning. In all my years of nursing, this was about as optimal an advance care planning encounter as possible. Marian Grant, palliative care NP. I first saw the patient the next morning.

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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.