Hospice Nurse Hero

JULY 24, 2022

Members of the IDG meet no less than every 15 days to discuss the patient’s plan of care and are an essential regulatory component of hospice. RELATED ARTICLE: Hospice IDG: Top Time Wasters and How to Avoid Them. You can also use the SBAR format when you call the physician.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

For starters, you should make sure the family knows to call the hospice agency when the patient dies. One of the roles of hospice is to confirm the absence of vital signs and comfort the family. There are few things that break my heart more than hearing from patients that the hospice didn’t show up for the death.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And my main focus, which I loved in that role was to help develop professional home health and hospice aids. And I know that sounds like a long time ago, but it, when you think of the history of healthcare, you know, only in the last 60 years have nurses held that that role, you know, of, of taking vital signs.

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