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Grief Coach Rebrands to Help Texts, Launches Health Care Worker Support Service

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The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. The company convened a group of professionals with experience in grief care to develop the content, from a variety of disciplines.

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Hospice & Palliative Care of Wood River Valley Works to Reach Underserved Latino Populations

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In 2022, Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley performed 2,622 registered nurse visits and assisted 1,638 individuals in its community, according to a recent newsletter. In the last year, Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley indicated that it had restarted its grief program for children ages 6 to 12.

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Psychedelics, Cannabis Show Promise in End-of-Life Care, But More Research Needed on the Risks

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Research is growing around how certain substances such as psychedelics and cannabis can aid in treating pain, anxiety, depression, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), grief, migraines and other medical conditions. Medical cannabis can also be beneficial in symptom management for cancer patients, according to recent research.

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

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HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services. Early on we established a workflow of whenever a pediatric patient is admitted, we try to have the same registered nurse case manager follow the patient to minimize the revolving door of faces for a child and family.

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Partners In Care to Launch Clinician Burnout Prevention Program

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The hospice and palliative care provider recently received a $50,000 grant from the Oregon Center for Nursing to support the program’s launch, which is dubbed Care for the Caregivers. million registered nurses expect to leave the health care workforce by 2027, the NCSBN research found. Nearly 900,000 of the nation’s 4.5

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How Changing Reproductive Health Laws Could Impact Perinatal Hospice

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Cane is also a registered nurse with a background in neonatal care and reproductive health legislation research. Families often need perinatal hospice providers that can connect them with financial, practical, emotional and grief support resources, according to Nichols. “We A loss is a loss, no matter how you look at it.

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A Silent Epidemic: Domestic Violence, Trauma Among Hospice Patients, Staff

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McKinnis also has a private therapy practice and previously served as the director of patient and family support and grief services for the North Carolina-based hospice provider Four Seasons. million registered nurses in the United States, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report.

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