Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Palliative care teams often include doctors, nurses, social workers as well as counselors who specialize in spiritual and emotional support. Palliative care also enables patients and their families to make informed decisions about end-of-life care. Why Choose Palliative Over Curative?

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

Individuals should be afforded private spaces where they can have personal conversations, spend time with loved ones, and maintain a sense of control over their lives. Healthcare professionals must uphold strict confidentiality standards to protect sensitive information.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses. Those kinds of things. Eric: Yeah.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

If your agency is still on paper then you will likely have a physical chart with this information. Regardless, there are key pieces of information that your intake team should obtain. Review Intake Information and Records. You don’t want to wait until you get the patient’s home to review this information!

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. So a lot of the skills that are used in advance care planning are the same kind of skills you would use in a context where you were communicating information or prognosis or doing an informed consent discussion.

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