article thumbnail

VNS Health Expands Hospice Education for Underserved Asian Americans

Hospice News

Even our nurses have been telling me that compared to when we first started, they’re seeing a lot more Asian patients in our [hospice] program,” Lin told Hospice News. “So, Bilingual staff at the centers host community engagement activities and hold seminars explaining the nature of hospice.

Seminar 283
article thumbnail

Discrimination Fears Deter LGBTQ+ Patients From Advance Care Planning

Hospice News

Training health care staff to help patients feel safe in these discussions is essential to addressing this problem, according to Arthur Fitting, nurse and LGBTQ+ program manager at VNS Health. Formerly the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, VNS Health recently rebranded as it expanded geographic reach across the Empire State.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Care Dimensions CEO: New Hospice Clinicians Seek Mentorship

Hospice News

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. The residency actually came out of a grant that was funding nursing education. It’s six nurses at a time, and it’s really open to any nurse.

Hospice 238
article thumbnail

Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

It began as the Foundation for Hospices in sub-Saharan Africa, a not-for-profit based out of New York, following a professional seminar tour of hospices in Zimbabwe and South Africa by U.S. Global Partners in Care became an affiliate of CHC in 2017, but the program’s roots were planted in 1999. hospice leaders.

article thumbnail

Exploring the Big Three Fears of Dying

Death and Dying Chronicles

As a hospice nurse, it felt good to go home knowing I had helped someone that day. Do we nurses and aides hate to care for those who are incontinent? 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.

Seminar 52
article thumbnail

The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

Exploring the Psychological Aspects of Palliative Care: Lessons Learned from an Interdisciplinary Seminar of Experts. And the anger was… I was the one delivering the bad news, but the anger was very much directed at a social worker on our service who’s female. Are you okay with them insulting your nursing staff?