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Feeding Your Nursing Career

Daily Nurse

Are you willing to feed your career as well as you feed your own body? It needs to be fed, watered, exercised, and well-rested to function optimally. What kinds of nutrition does your career need? What nutritional deficits does your nursing career demonstrate? How do you choose to […]

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Feeding Your Nursing Career

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Are you willing to feed your career as well as you feed your own body? How do you choose to optimize the nutrition that you feed to your body every day? Pay attention to what you're feeding your nursing career. Ask yourself the following questions: How do I feed my nursing career? What is my career asking of me?

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Hospice Educators ‘Planting Seeds’ Among High School Students

Hospice News

Student volunteers assist with meal preparation, feeding and companionship. Students work side by side with volunteers assisting hospice patients and their families at two private comfort care homes in the Rochester, New York, area.

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Kaiser Permanente Physicians Negotiate New Labor Agreement

Hospice News

What gets lost in the legitimate struggles of medical training is that youre worried about paying bills and for things like child care, feeding your family and taking care of your mental health. That can unfortunately get in the way of learning to provide the best care to patients.

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Specialized SNF Clinicians Can Help Improve Care Quality at End of Life

Hospice News

Some of the issues that frequently occur include increased risk of feeding tube use, intensive care unit stays, late enrollment in hospice, and receipt of care that is not concordant with the resident’s wishes, the study indicated.

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Rush Medical Center’s Caring for Caregivers Program

Hospice News

Increasing Caregiver Duties Family caregivers are also required to perform increasingly more complicated medical tasks, such as administering medications via IV, feeding by a tube and managing pain.

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Some Families May Not Access Hospice Without Caregiver Support

Hospice News

The program includes training in medical caregiving aspects such as oxygen application, tube feeding, tracheostomy care and nonmedical needs such meal preparation, bathing, housekeeping and incontinence care. Family members receive online or in-person training from participating providers.

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