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Learning from women’s sport, an open goal for healthcare workplaces?

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Elizabeth Bailey, Associate Editor for Midwifery and Women’s Health discusses what healthcare can learn from recent developments in women’s sports. Could this also extend into healthcare uniforms? Many healthcare professionals wear scrubs in the workplace and light colours are important as an outward show of cleanliness and hygiene.

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Emerging Services Help Hospice Patients Reduce Anxiety About Pets’ Future

Hospice News

Our volunteers can help with a pet’s daily needs – things like walking, feeding, and cleaning litter boxes. A caregiver can certainly complete the form, but when you get to the notarized page, the patient will have to sign it and be present upon the notarization.” We can get pets to grooming and veterinary appointments.

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Some Families May Not Access Hospice Without Caregiver Support

Hospice News

Even when a caregiver is present, that person may be elderly or ill themselves, or be unable to be in the home around the clock due to work or other obligations. Among the participants in this new program is Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc. founders of Mettle Health. NASDAQ: AVAH).

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Finding Nursing Career Inspiration

Daily Nurse

Nursing does not have a reputation for being generally easy work, and a career as a nurse presents many potential challenges. Other nurses and healthcare professionals: Career inspiration can be found in blogs, books , videos, journals, podcasts, and other forms of communication created and conveyed by fellow healthcare professionals.

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Nurse Residencies: Norm or Exception?

Minority Nurse

Presented as a game that only a lucky few can win, new nurse residencies provide great career-launching benefits for a small cohort of novice nurses. Feeding Our Young, Not Eating Our Young When asked about new nurse residencies, some old-school nurses may gruffly say, “When I graduated, nobody held my hand.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Oh, thanks.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri. Alex: Bernie.

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