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Hospice, Palliative Care Providers Leverage Education Programs to Attract and Keep Staff

Hospice News

UnityPoint has a nurse residency program that focuses on helping newly licensed nurses transition into the workforce, in addition to setting-specific training in hospice and home health. These represent draws that attract and help keep clinicians, said Linscheid.

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When Facing Language Barriers, Having the Same Home Care Nurse Improves Outcomes

Daily Nurse

Nurses visit patients to provide care to keep them at home, given that hospital readmissions cost the U.S. The findings, published in the journal Medical Care , can inform how home health agencies staff the care of patients with limited English proficiency by having the same provider throughout a patient’s care.

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On National AIDS and Aging Day, A Veteran Nurse Looks Back: How Nurses Can Transform the Lives of HIV/AIDS Patients Through Empathy

Daily Nurse

At the nonprofit VNS Health , where I worked, our home health nurses were not ones to turn their backs on the communities we served and lived in. Soon, we found ourselves on the frontlines, caring for an average of 600 HIV/AIDS patients daily in New York City in the late 1980s.

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Nurses with Disabilities: A Skilled Workforce

Minority Nurse

I was unsure if I would be an effective nurse,” she says. “ I shared my concerns with my mother, an ICU nurse at the VA then. Nurses with disabilities are transforming healthcare and patient care practices,” says McCulloh. “ The priority with every nurse is to ensure patient safety.

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A Message to the Nurse's Future Self

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

This experience was so profound, the result was they he immediately applied for nursing school and had that anonymous nurse to thank for his new inspiring career. So that nurse caused another human being to choose the same profession for himself. I've known nurses who fed the homeless and cared for wounded animals.

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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

Each Hospice patient has a dynamic team of providers whose priority is on their comfort. Typically each hospice team consists of an RN case manager who is the primary contact person and who will carry out the bulk of the patient care. The attending physician oversees all care provided.

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Top Home Health Nurse Documentation Updates for 2022 That Actually Affect Your Paycheck

The Productive Home Health Nurse

What a year for home health nurse documentation and nurses… Our COVID song continues…. PDGM has taken over home health nurse documentation…. Home health nurse documentation timeframes are on speed…. WHAT ARE THE TOP HOME HEALTH NURSE DOCUMENTATION UPDATES OF 2022?