Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

Sometimes hospice patients live longer than six months. When this happens, you’ll want to use these tips to document the hospice recertification with ease. If you’ve worked long enough as a hospice nurse, then there’s a good chance you’ve had to chart a patient’s hospice recertification. How Hospice Benefit Periods Work.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

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.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. What is ALS?

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Spano: We’re seeing that model as well be deployed by whether it be hospices that form up alliances to create larger palliative practices to create the footprint from a physician ownership standpoint that’s required for an ACO.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A nursing career needs a great deal of feeding and watering; there are so many moving parts, and there's a lot to do in order to keep them all happy and flourishing. If your original motivations for entering the profession no longer hold true for you in the present, some soul searching may reveal where you need to look next for inspiration.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2022

Be present. However, after many years of working as a hospice nurse and caring for patients with terminal illnesses, I’ve learned some skills that have made these interactions less intimidating. Listen and be present in the moment. Show Up and Be Present! Try these Simple Ways of Being Present. Listen more.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 19, 2023

Candida auris has been classified as a nosocomial infection , meaning it is a condition most commonly acquired in a hospital or facility setting, and was not present in the person prior to their admission. Who is at risk to contract Candida auris?

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Hope Hospice

JULY 23, 2020

There’s no one-size-fits-all method to combat feeding challenges, so try out a few of these methods to see what might work for your patient. Hope Hospice offers a free education series for family caregivers. The live webinars cover a variety of topics, including four presentations specifically on aspects of dementia care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And every time I do palliative care and I think I want to jump ahead, like somebody says, “Oh, so and so wants hospice. Can you just talk to him about hospice?” ” Inevitably, it’s always when I jump to hospice, they’re all, “Wait, what’s hospice? Get the hospice referral.

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Hope Hospice

JUNE 29, 2022

If no obvious injury is present, have the person roll onto their side. You might also like: Assisting With Personal Hygiene > Seniors and Hot-Weather Safety > Challenges With Feeding Elderly Patients > The post Fall Prevention appeared first on Hope Hospice and Health Services. Source: National Institutes of Health.

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Hospice Advantage Solutions

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It is normal to believe that fluid intake can improve overall health and well-being, but this is not always true in a hospice patient. It is often the task of the hospice team to educate patients and families about this process. If a tumor is present, the edematous layer may shrink.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If You or Your Loved One Is In Hospice Care, Be Proactive. If you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are receiving hospice care, you may want to consider creating a living will. If you are receiving hospice care, your hospice team can help you create a living will if you desire. If so, for how long?

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Palliverse

MAY 7, 2022

Dad wanted to take her home, he knew that he could feed her food she would like, and that home rehabilitation could be considered. Dad was not keen on having Hospice involved yet, as he wanted to protect Mum from the knowledge that she had worsening cancer. Despite Dad feeding her five small meals a day, she was shrinking fast.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 18, 2022

This is especially true in healthcare settings like home health and hospice when care is being provided in the patient’s home. For instance, as a hospice nurse, you spend a significant amount of time with your patients and their families. For instance, you may need to touch, feed, or even bathe a patient.

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Nurse.com

MAY 20, 2022

I spent three of those 10 years working as a staff nurse in med-surg and perioperative units and the rest in various positions in home health and hospice. ” Opportunities to widen and deepen my empathy presented themselves during my time as a corrections nurse at the jail. Kelly Langford, RN. “You have helped me so much.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Will/Desire to Create a Unique Career Whether you're interested in trauma, nursing research, the pharmaceutical industry, NICU, hospice, or entrepreneurship, having the will or desire to create and curate your own career is central to the process. What aspects of work feed my emotional and spiritual lives? So, let's break it down.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 19, 2021

In this episode of Living With Hospice, Mitch addresses the many facets of 'closing the books' at the end of our lives, including practical planning, reviewing the bucket list and the often uncomfortable topic of saying goodbye. Also part of closing the books, for someone who's dying, is to say goodbye. This is not so much in our culture.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. . Summary Transcript Summary. Transcript.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. I’m going to start off with Lexy. Lexy: I think chaplains should be required in many more settings.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. And for a few reasons, which I’m sure we’ll get into, I think it’s probably most effective upstream of the acute care setting, more in the nursing home setting or for patients who are not presenting in the hospital or emergency department setting. Welcome, Abby.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. And so the key there is, of course these were prospectively measured where patients were called every month from 1998 through actually the present day among those who are still alive.

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Living With Hospice

AUGUST 26, 2020

Transcript: Welcome back to another episode of Living With Hospice. I am a very experienced person who's been a caregiver and a longtime hospice volunteer. I've been on the inside and on the outside of hospice. You know, we're just present. And in my experience, they're very few in hospice care either.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And my main focus, which I loved in that role was to help develop professional home health and hospice aids. So I’ve always had deep respect for, for the knowledge and skills they bring, whether it’s at the hospital or nursing home, home health, hospice, home care. Amanda Sternklar ( 03:24 ): That’s amazing.

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