Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In the course of many nurses' healthcare careers, witnessing the illness, suffering, and death of others is commonplace. Aside from witnessing the challenges faced by others, nurses are themselves human beings with their own life experiences, victories, and suffering. In other words, our desires cause us to suffer.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JULY 23, 2023

Research in nurses has shown that menstrual health can be impacted by night shift working and workplace stress [9]. There are many points of discussion within the desirability of workplace uniforms, the hierarchy it represents, patient perceptions and what constitutes a professional presentation. BMC Nurs 20 , 238 (2021).

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Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 17, 2024

Family caregivers can help shape the outcomes for their loved ones – an ICU nurse explains their vital role Self-care, although often neglected by caregivers, is critical when looking after a loved one. Marie landed in the intensive care unit where I am a bedside nurse because she was too agitated and needed more oxygen.

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The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 3, 2022

We are excited to collaborate with GenesisCare to interview Anna Crawford, one of their Clinical Nurse Specialists with over 20 years of oncology nursing experience! My name is Anna Crawford and I am a Registered Nurse managing adult patients who have been diagnosed with cancer. The CNC role was one I truly enjoyed.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. I made my way through the ranks as a CNA, then a registered nurse, and then a nurse practitioner and now, I’m in a leadership position.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the year comes to an end, it's always a good time to pause, reflect, and take stock of the current state of your nursing career. Plenty of nurses follow a tried and true career strategy of working one or two years in med-surg and then specializing in an area suitable to their temperament and clinical interests.

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Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 19, 2023

Jeannine Forrest, PhD, RN, of Dementia Coach On-Call, recalls consulting at a nursing home where a woman with dementia was losing weight. Forrest, who conducted a program at Lake Forest Place focusing on how to feed people with dementia, had the opportunity to taste Ortega’s pureed food dishes.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

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. While the nurse practitioner can perform the face-to-face visit, it is up to the hospice medical director to review the documentation and certify the patient still meets hospice criteria.

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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. For instance, as a hospice nurse, you spend a significant amount of time with your patients and their families.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2022

As a nurse, there are 5 things you need to know about interacting with a dying patient that can help. Be present. Secondly, as a nurse, you probably didn’t spend a lot of time learning about end-of-life conversations in nursing school. Nurses are humans too! Is It “Ok” For Nurses To Cry?

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Hope Hospice

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s why falls are the most common cause of nursing home placement. If no obvious injury is present, have the person roll onto their side. Reduced muscle strength and coordination, too, make it harder to recover from a loss of balance. And if an elderly person is injured from a fall, healing takes much longer than when in youth.

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Seniority, the Mavencare Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

Like fully-fledged hypertension, prehypertension can, and often does, exist in the body without presenting symptoms. Johns Hopkins University recommends a diet that “feed[s] healthy blood pressure,” which involves eating foods rich in magnesium, potassium, and calcium. Limiting alcohol consumption and quitting smoking.

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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. Despite Dad feeding her five small meals a day, she was shrinking fast. Dad had rung the hospice in the morning and a nurse came to review for the first time. After another week, Mum went home.

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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. Could it be the bedside nurse? It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 30, 2022

According to the National Caregiver Trend Report from myCNAjobs, 73% of employees enter the caregiving profession as a steppingstone to gain the skills needed to pursue a career in nursing or healthcare. It can be hard for caregivers to find time to complete training and soak in all the information presented to them.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

Our clinicians, especially our social workers and nurses that work in care management, try very hard to connect people to the services that they need because it is overwhelming as a family member to understand the different pieces of care and how they are financed. People want to do the care, but it’s just really hard.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It can be their patient reported tools, or their assessments that can be done in the clinic by an MA, a nurse, someone else with just a digested version. By completing the Practical Geriatric Assessment, we’re able to feed in and get a result of the probable toxicity that patients will experience. No, no, please.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. ” Ariel: Exactly.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I ran into a nurse in the stairwell eating, because we don’t have any space to eat and she’s eating. And then the infusion nurse comes and she walks a few steps and she talks about what it was like to hear that prognosis. Or the cases where someone actually said, “I never want a feeding tube.”

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the team that I got to work with, physician, nurse, myself, child life, we work so well together that we finish each other’s sentences. But working long enough with my physician, nurse, pharmacy, colleagues, child life, I’m going to get to know them well enough to know where they’re going next. Barbara: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

or too much ancient history, but you know, like, like a lot of nurses, when I became an RN, I was told you gotta work in acute care. Back then the word was that if you worked in community or home based care that you weren’t really making use of all your nursing skills. Linda Leekley ( 01:36 ): Sure, absolutely.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. Eric: Yeah.

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Living With Hospice

AUGUST 26, 2020

I am not a licensed counselor, nurse or certified medical professional. Making sure the med logs are current, keeping the incident logs up to date and remembering to write down all the questions that you want to ask the nurses next time or the chaplain or the counselor. You know, we're just present. I'm not a doctor.

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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

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. Respect needs to be present on a corporate level, from the top down, and at the bedside.

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