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Compassionate Care: 4 Ways Nurses Can Improve Patient Care

Daily Nurse

Compassion is more than being kind to patients or checking in regularly with folks with acute illnesses. Genuine compassion requires forward-thinking and careful planning. However, pursuing specialized credentials and further education is an excellent way for healthcare professionals to improve patient care quality.

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Lawsuits That Don’t Involve Patient Care Can Still Involve Nurses

Nurse.com

But sometimes nurses have a role in a lawsuit that has nothing to do with patient care, as the following case illustrates. Particulars of the case A mother, accompanied by her aunt, was visiting her daughter who was a patient at a medical center, when a janitor entered the patient’s room. This lesson is an important one.

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Earlier Palliative Care Yields Higher ROI

Hospice News

“We identified the contributing factors to that lower cost and, just to name a few, they were higher penetration rates and lower length of stay between admission to palliative care services.” The system includes 220 patient care locations, eight hospitals, a regional behavioral health organization and a regional home-based care agency.

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Growing Neuropalliative Care: Overcoming Barriers to Scale

Hospice News

“We had family care partner representatives who told us their stories and why it’s important to include them in our research. We were able to fund 13 junior investigators to come to Denver to present research into neuropalliative care.” To increase the number of specialists in the field, Daly said.

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Hospice News

Additional touchpoints with patients via telehealth is another factor contributing to improvements on the measure, Harrison said. The greatest barrier to further improvement is the ever-present workforce shortage affecting the health care industry at large and hospices in particular.

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How the 4 Largest Hospice Industry Groups Work Together to Support Program Integrity

Hospice News

The four largest hospice industry organizations have been working to present a united front to address widespread program integrity issues. A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. We all want to be involved.

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Emerging Services Help Hospice Patients Reduce Anxiety About Pets’ Future

Hospice News

Worries about their pets can contribute to great stress and anxiety for dying patients, impacting quality of life, according to Tania Crawford, volunteer coordinator at Hospice of Redmond. The organization also deploys volunteers to help families care for animals in the home. “In

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