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BCEN’s Certified Flight Registered Nurse Credential Turns 30

Daily Nurse

The Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN), the benchmark for certification across the emergency spectrum, is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN) certification program.

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

Hospice News

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. 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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CMS Sets Timelines for Modifying, Phasing Out COVID Waivers

Hospice News

At present, the administration’s plan is to extend the emergency declarations to May 11, and then end both [the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency] on that date,” the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently indicated in a statement.

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

Hospice News

I developed a proposal and presented it to our senior leadership and to our board of directors, who very happily agreed that this was absolutely in keeping with our mission and something that really made sense for us to offer, because there was this need out there not being filled.

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The Difference Between Professional Development & Developing Professionals

Home Care Pulse

Register today and submit your questions for our authors! Presenters: Wendie Colvin. MSN, Registered Nurse, HCP. Registered Nurse, HCP. Register for Workshop. Brandy Morgan. Dr. Amy Moss. SVP, Clinical Operations Hospice, Amedisys. Matt Kroll. President of Assistive Care Services, BAYADA.

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Stoneridge Hospice Owner Rollie Seebert: Hospices Help Address the ‘Demographic Tsunami’

Hospice News

The company was established in concert with his wife, Janet Seebert, director of nursing at Stoneridge Hospice, and his niece, Patti Bratzel, a registered nurse who became co-owner, and executive director. Seebert is a retired sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. It’s an important piece of the puzzle not to limit yourself.

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Mahoney, Thoms, Franklin: Black Nurses and Reformers to Remember

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Mary Eliza Mahoney One of the most prominent Black nurses in history, Mary Eliza Mahoney, was born in 1845 to parents free from slavery. She became the first Black registered nurse in the United States in 1879 after completing a rigorous training program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children.

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