Nurse.com

APRIL 18, 2023

For example, technology is making documentation more universal and transparent making a nurse’s notes potentially available throughout the entire hospital — even the entire system. Charting tips and techniques Effective nursing notes should tell the patient’s story, according to Cineas. Do not copy charting from your colleagues.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 30, 2024

Time Management Strategies For Hospice Nurses: DAILY ESSENTIALS To start the day on the right foot, hospice nurses should ensure they have essential information and supplies readily available. You can also clean and stock your nursing bag before you wrap up for the day. With your own eyes!!

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

“Basically, there are gaps in need, and that both presents an opportunity for entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. I think that’s going to be a continuing area of focus.” These conditions also put a burden on family caregivers, just as many medical ailments do.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Considering that a DNP is generally clinically oriented, and a PhD and DNS are geared towards academia and research, a nurse wishing to take their clinical knowledge and education to the highest pinnacle would do well to look at the DNP as a very promising direction. Sign up now to get your free digital subscription to Minority Nurse.

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Nurse.com

JUNE 3, 2022

This increase in funds will allow nurses to easily transition from intense hospital environments to individualized home care settings. Since the onset of the pandemic, nurse to patient ratios have drastically increased to dangerous levels. This overload is just one of the many new challenges for nurses presented by the pandemic.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 19, 2023

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. Her confidence in me encouraged me to continue pursuing my nursing degree. From that point on, I focused on the content of my speech, making sure the information was accurate and relevant.”

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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. She had a respiratory arrest, and the nurse was really distraught. And that helps us get to the decision.

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

Hospice services can be provided at home or in inpatient facilities with staff experienced in end-of-life care. Be Present Presence and authentic listening create a safe space that allows for honest, open communication and allows all parties to feel understood. Contact us today for more information.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Please read full disclosur e for more information. As a nurse, when your patient dies, you might be thinking now what should I do? While nearly 80% of people say they want to die at home , only 20% do. Believe it or not, many people still end up dying in acute care settings or nursing homes. But I digress!

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 1, 2022

For example, if you organized a blood drive at your school or read to residents of a nursing home, expand on the details of these occasions. According to Yale University’s School of Nursing, resumes should be one to two pages in length. Who you are — A cover letter presents an opportunity to showcase who you are.

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Nurse.com

JULY 20, 2022

The RN did not share whether or not she informed any of her coworkers or her supervisor that she was leaving. When on duty, an RN must inform someone in nursing administration of the need to leave so that patient care and other nursing responsibilities are completed by another nurse or healthcare provider.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

Please read full disclosur e for more information. Agency values are for informational purposes only and are not meant to represent actual agency survey scores. Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Her work is informed not only by her career of more than 20 years as a hospice professional but also by her experience as a caregiver for her husband. So I had that to inform my caregiving. They’re tele-novellas; they use dramatic stories to inform people. I’m not saying they’re not, but they are not as present.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

AUGUST 2, 2020

In other bullying scenarios, r esidents may silently tolerate repeated and sometimes deliberate incidents of being served cold food, late food, no food, and even damaged food, such as this badly butchered birthday cake that was rudely presented to a resident on her birthday by a staff member.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Please read full disclosur e for more information. Attitude about documenting in front of the patient Short staffing Unclear understanding of hospice rules/regulations Lack of nursing experience (new to hospice) Inappropriate assignments (new nurse with complex patients) Travel time (rural vs nursing home vs inpatient) Too many patients.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 19, 2023

It was common then, and I’m afraid still today, to hear seniors swear they would never “go into a nursing home, because that’s where people go to die.” 1] I do know however, that excellent care is being provided in many LTC homes, most of the time. 19,000 Canadians participated in informing the new Standards.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. ” Ariel: Exactly.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 27, 2022

We are going to give you some information so that you can decide if a Doula is a good fit for you and your family on an end-of-life journey. In fact, a good family friend back home was a midwife. They answer any questions that the family or patient might have and then are present when the patient transitions and passes away.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2023

We need to be united and have the evidence to back our claims and then be able to present it in a variety of formats depending on our audience: will they be convinced by statistics, tragic stories, fears of not being elected etc. Many of the staff were never taught comprehensive assessment skills. Fractured voices won’t cut it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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Shining Light Hospice

JANUARY 6, 2022

Symptoms present as hand weakness or loss of hand and finger dexterity. This care usually occurs in the patient’s own home; however, it can include alternatives such as a nursing home, a care home, a relative’s home, a hospice inpatient unit, or a hospital in some circumstances. Spinal Onset.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. I could walk down the hall and get information. And I was terrified.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? We need that information. This information is so vital. Hospitals should routinely collect functional information in the same way.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2022

“As Wall Street firms take over more nursing homes, quality in those homes has gone down and costs have gone up. Medicare is going to set higher standards for nursing homes and make sure your loved ones get the care they deserve and expect.”. That ends on my watch,” Biden said. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.)

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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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. But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Eric: Great, thank you both.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. How do I reconcile these two issues?

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Chicago Caregiving

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Before she moved, Carolyn Davis, 65, remembers thinking about nursing homes, knowing she wouldn’t want to live in one. If I had to go to a nursing home, I would have to go back into the closet. If I had to go to a nursing home, I would have to go back into the closet. For more information, visit sageusa.org.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

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. It is in our patient homes, nursing homes, some acute rehab centers, hospices.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And if we don’t do it now, we’re gonna be talking about this 20 years from now, and all of us are going, we’ll be sitting in our, you know, skilled nursing home, talking to each other about it. Like, Boy, wish I was home. There, most state association’s websites are just a fountain of information.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And if we don’t do it now, we’re gonna be talking about this 20 years from now, and all of us are going, we’ll be sitting in our, you know, skilled nursing home, talking to each other about it. Like, Boy, wish I was home. There, most state association’s websites are just a fountain of information.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Without these vital communications in the brain cells occurring, a decline in speech, communication, concentration, information processing, and overall functions will ensue. A patient may no longer recall important information such as their current address or phone number. Speech may or may not be present.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

We put the information off of floppy and mail that out, and then it was a CD rom that we mailed out and then it was email and then finally it was online learning. So I’ve always had deep respect for, for the knowledge and skills they bring, whether it’s at the hospital or nursing home, home health, hospice, home care.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

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. Summary Transcript Summary.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 4, 2022

Additionally, we received press releases related to CMS Acts to Improve the Safety and Quality of Care of the Nation’s Nursing Homes and CMS Seeks Public Feedback to Improve Medicare Advantage. More than 10 million Americans qualify for Medicaid based on a disability. Medicare: In 2021, Medicare covered 63.8 million people: 55.8

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