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What To Know Before Hiring In-Home Nursing Services

Caregiver Support Services

Hiring an in-home nurse can be a game-changer for family caregivers. They offer much-needed professional care for their loved ones. Here’s what to know before hiring in-home nursing services. Here’s what to know before hiring in-home nursing services.

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Involuntary Nursing Home Discharges/Transfers in Missouri

Healthcare Law Insights blog

Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. In certain cases, nursing homes may discharge or transfer a resident even if the resident does not consent to the discharge or transfer – this is known as an “involuntary discharge” or an “involuntary transfer.”

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Patient Recognition Week: Celebrating Patients Who Live Their Life to the Fullest Thanks to Home Care

Hearts for Home Care

Thanks to the support of home health aides who care for him and keep him safe at home, LaMondre has become a highly successful businessman, owning his own podcast, 5P with LaMondre , and company that focuses on inspirational speaking, entrepreneurship, and consulting. John Letterman with his home care nurse, North Carolina.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

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He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Alex: Could we touch on nursing homes too?

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Change Is Now the “Constant” for Nurses in Infection Control

Nurse.com

Three years ago, lessons about infection control in nursing were somewhat predictable. The pandemic erased that complacency and enhanced education for nurses and infection control in unique ways. The renewed focus on how infection control in nursing is presented to healthcare professionals is among the major lessons learned since 2020.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

“Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. He’s a geriatrician.