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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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Rooted in wellness: A therapist’s role in Medicare’s nutritional focus

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

OTs support self-feeding and fine motor function. They provide strategies and diet modifications to prevent aspiration, train caregivers on safe feeding practices, and advocate for resident preferences to enhance both safety and satisfaction. They understand sarcopenia doesnt just affect fall risks its swallowing muscles too.

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Maintaining Your Nursing Engine

Daily Nurse

” This part of you needs “feeding” with self-care, kindness, and compassion to be the best nurse (and person) you want to be. Self-care, rest, exercise, relaxation, leisure, hydration, time with family, social life, spirituality, and creativity are all ways to feed your metaphoric engine.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. He doesn’t prescribe thickened liquids, because he just puts in feeding tubes in everybody.

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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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