Minority Nurse

JANUARY 26, 2024

When new graduate nurses enter the labor market, many will clamor for the chance to land a position in new nurse residency programs. 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. And who does such a system serve?

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death. Transcript.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 18, 2022

Nurses provide emotional, physical, and psychological care to patients every day. However, these interactions put them at risk for crossing the lines of professional boundaries in nursing. This is especially true in healthcare settings like home health and hospice when care is being provided in the patient’s home.

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Nurse.com

MAY 20, 2022

Ten years into practicing nursing, I was experiencing burnout, exhaustion, and apathy. 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. My nursing career was about to take a trip into the unknown. Kelly Langford, RN.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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Home Care Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2022

You chose home care for a reason and, and there’s so many people with like nursing backgrounds, caregiving backgrounds. Is it, do you you see it as detrimental to say start a channel or start a blog or any sort of digital content that you’re presenting and then you don’t keep up with it? I’m like really?

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 22, 2023

One action within the order calls to enhance job quality for long-term care workers. This order direct s the department of Health and Human Services to consider regulations and guidelines to improve the quality of home care jobs, and to continue looking toward minimum staffing standards for post-acute nursing facilities.

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