Hospice News

JULY 29, 2022

Hospice News caught up with Honzel to discuss their time in the hospice care industry. HSPN: What drew you to the Hospice Care industry? It made a lasting impression and after returning to school and becoming a nurse I suppose I rather gravitated toward this field.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Being a hospice nurse can leave you feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. If so, then you need these 7 simple ways to get organized for hospice nurses. Unlike working at a hospital or nursing home, you don’t just get to pop back into your patients’ rooms after you leave. Sound familiar? Prep Ahead of Time.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As hospice nurses, we embark on a journey filled with compassion, empathy, and the desire to provide comfort to those in their final stages of life. The Ethical Dilemmas in End of Life Care: Hospice care is unique and although it revolves around providing comfort and dignity to individuals at the end of life.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. California-based Guaranteed launched last year in August by founder and CEO Jessica McGlory.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

“It’s about education and support in recognizing the role that trauma plays and adopting practices and policies in the world of hospice and palliative care. We have a duty to look out for this in anyone, a social worker, physician, nurse or patient. Snyder previously served as a hospice nurse for 23 years.

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Traditions Health

APRIL 22, 2024

A vital role in hospice care She’s worked as a volunteer coordinator for more than six years, but before that, was a hospice nurse for 23 years. It’s so important to understand the vital role these volunteers play in providing compassionate hospice care,” Whaley adds.

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Hospice 101

APRIL 11, 2020

They need you to visit, to provide a listening ear, and to provide them with some social interaction. At a time we are being told to avoid others and limit our time with our patients, is a time that hospice nurses should really be increasing their frequency of weekly visits.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Referral rejection rates among hospices reached a record high of 41% in 2022, according to data from CarePort, a WellSky company. Hospice aides and CNAs also represented a large percentage of job vacancies and saw high turnover rates, 19.05% and 29.84%, respectively.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Turnover rates for registered hospice nurses reached 25.15% in 2022, according to the 2022-2023 Hospice Salary & Benefits Report , published by Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Being a freestanding inpatient facility is ‘unique’ for a hospice service,” she said. New Hospice Facility Launches in Arizona Bonnie Irr, a retired hospice nurse, is launching a new inpatient facility in southwestern Arizona to improve end-of-life care access to families in need.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2022

Berry: I started my career as an oncology nurse, and eventually realized I was providing a lot of end of life care, but with no training or acknowledgment that many of my patients were in their last months, weeks or even days of life! What may be one thing leaders don’t know, that you wish they universally knew, about your job?

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The Bucket-List Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Julie Mullins, George’s hospice nurse, worked closely with him to ensure his symptoms were well controlled and he felt well on the day of his party. In no time at all, Kroger in Richmond agreed to donate a beautifully decorated cake. Julie Mullens presents George with a gift from the care team.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

Nursing is a second career for Derek J. Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. Meet Derek Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, and hospice nurse in Colorado.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 28, 2023

In honor of this month, we express our appreciation for home health nurses, hospice nurses, and nurses who work in the skilled nursing facilities that partner with us as hospice and home health providers.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2022

We’ve increased the number of licensed practical nurses. That helps relieve some of the work that we put on our nurses and social workers. Our hope was that if we created this residency, we could build a pipeline of nurses who had exceptional training and could then go on and train further nurses.

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The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

But Junann, our hospice chaplain, said, “God makes a way out of no way.” Stephanie, the hospice nurse, made sure Jerry felt up to the ceremony. And Kristy, our social worker, was busy with a few surprises. She agreed to officiate. She worked with the courthouse to get the license.

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 7, 2022

Should a patient sustain an injury such as a broken bone, head concussion, or some other urgent medical need that is not related to their hospice diagnosis, then a hospital visit may be a covered benefit while on Hospice. Check with your Hospice Nurse to ensure your family receives the proper information prior to calling 911.

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Shining Light Hospice

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The focus of hospice is to help each person to live out their remaining days with peace, comfort and dignity and comfort care is aimed at ensuring a patient maintains quality of life and that all symptoms are managed. The physician will oversee all care while on hospice. Nursing Care And Symptom Management. Physical Support.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As a hospice nurse, there are many skills that you must master. One of these skills is understanding and completing hospice GIP documentation. I know I say this a lot, but hospice documentation is not just about meeting regulatory compliance guidelines, it’s also about ensuring the BEST outcome for the patient.

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Seasons Hospice

JULY 15, 2022

Hospices typically offer a wide range of services, including pain management, emotional support, and spiritual counseling. In most cases, hospice care is provided by a team of trained professionals that includes doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers. What Is The Goal Of Hospice Care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Beth, from a hospice standpoint, when do you think, “Oh, this person needs a doula”?

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Questions such as: Why did the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate volunteer involvement in hospice as a condition of participation in the Medicare Hospice Benefit? In my 30+ years as a hospice nurse, I have had the privilege of working with many hospice volunteers.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 18, 2022

This is especially true in healthcare settings like home health and hospice when care is being provided in the patient’s home. For instance, as a hospice nurse, you spend a significant amount of time with your patients and their families. According to a 2020 Gallup poll , nurses ranked 89% for honesty.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

Then as the need for more nurses to serve the pandemic happened, I saw borderline absurd levels of compensation. I would get nurses telling me they were making $5,000 a week. How do you retain a hospice nurse when she’s getting an offer in California, with expenses paid, to do Covid-19 related visits for $5K a week?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

As a hospice nurse, you might not always understand how this relates to your work. Furthermore, if you’re like most hospice nurses, you probably don’t have much time to spend thinking about survey scores. To be honest, the insight of the chaplains and social workers was always impressive.

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Death and Dying Chronicles

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As a hospice nurse, it felt good to go home knowing I had helped someone that day. It may be perhaps one of the most difficult final life lessons, to accept help from others when we, ourselves, are at our most helpless and vulnerable. Could it be, possibly then, a chance for others to grow in their life lessons, to care for you?

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

To make matters worse, hospices have lost social worker employees at a faster rate than any other health care setting in the care continuum as turnover rises to 27%. In the last two years alone, more than 6/10 nurses have changed jobs. Yet it also ranks among the top 5 industries with the highest workforce shortages.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Historically, caseloads for hospice nurse case managers have hovered around 10 to 12 patients, but these numbers have been trending upwards. Among the hospices that BerryDunn surveyed, 88% of the best performers kept case managers’ workloads between 13 to 18. Whereas once that increases, you can no longer maintain that.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

If completing a hospice admission gives you cold sweats, you’ll want to check out these expert hospice admission tips. One of the most common frustrations hospice nurses have is related to how long it takes to complete hospice documentation. And at the top of the list is the hospice admission.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

My interest in this paper and this topic goes back a long time and is based on my clinical experience as a hospice nurse, where I was taking care of what I felt like and what we’ve confirmed with research is about half of my patients. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In keeping with the goals of hospice, to maintain patient dignity and comfort, care can be in the patient’s own home, a personal care home, a nursing home, the home of a relative, and sometimes in a hospital or inpatient hospice unit. When Is It Time for Hospice Care? It also provides grief support.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I think it’s the first one that’s ever been done on hospice nurses in the hospice industry, done by the Amity Group. We’re getting comments from nurses, some social workers, from chaplains saying, “I get comments back from the family saying, thank you.

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The Bucket-List Blog

AUGUST 23, 2017

” he told everyone gathered, as he distributed warm hugs to his Hospice Care Plus team, friends, and family. His wife, Mrs. Murray, captured her feelings in a tearful moment just after takeoff, flanked by Mr. Murray’s hospice nurse, Connie, and his hospice social worker, Kristy. Just wonderful.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Does the hospice offer general inpatient care? Does the hospice offer continuous home care? What is the role of the physicians, the nurses, the social workers in hospice? .” It’s not that complex.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Doulas, When, when, when I look back at my career, the first five years of my nursing was patient care. At end of life, it was a hospice nurse, but no one had any idea of what dying was like. And hospice has evolved in those, what, 50 years. If you’re really a, a healthcare worker is really struggling.

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