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‘Suncoast’ Film Points a Lens at Hospice Families’ Experience

Hospice News

The film is based on director Laura Chinn’s personal experience as her brother Max received inpatient care at the Suncoast Hospice Care Center, an actual facility operated by the Florida-based nonprofit Empath Health. The environment in the movie from a care center perspective was exactly what you would expect to see in 2004-2005. “The

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

We additionally firmly establish that the song How to Save a Life by the Fray was a product of the aughts (2005, to be exact), not the 90’s ): Enjoy! But all that was recommended was that they at least had discussions about that and to document the fact that a discussion was had. Alex: How to a Save a Life, 2005. Eric: 2005?

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Why Do Most People Receive Less Time in Hospice than Recommended?

1-800-HOSPICE

Hospice sends nurses, aides, and other caregivers to the homes of patients with advanced, terminal illnesses. Expert consensus holds that people should receive hospice for three to six months. families, time in hospice falls short of recommendations. families, time in hospice falls short of recommendations.

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Advance Care Planning? Meh. - Part 2

Pallimed

Take an observational study showing that people with HCDs are more likely to have a longer than average hospice length of stay -- that may be true but we don't know why it's true. It could be true because completion of the ACP casually lead to the longer hospice LOS. Providers had an EHR template/platform to document all this.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

Pallimed

In 2005, Gary Franklin, MD, MPH, Director of the Labor and Industry Program, who would later become PROP’s Vice President of State Regulatory Affairs, published an article alleging that “that tolerance or opioid-induced abnormal pain sensitivity may be occurring in some workers who use opioids for chronic pain (9).” 2005 Aug;48(2):91-9.

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Advance Care Planning? Meh. - Part 1

Pallimed

It's fair to say that the last few months have been a controversial one in the hospice and palliative care communities when it comes to ACP, triggered by Dr Sean Morrison's editorial in Journal of Palliative Medicine : Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong. He founded Pallimed in 2005.

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100 Men in Nursing – amazing male nurses, midwives and students

The Nurse Break

Titration of ventilation settings, CRRT troubleshooting, vasopressor management, and supporting loved ones, all the while trying to manage documentation and patients who are critically unwell or aggressive as a result of ICU delirium. I have been an Emergency Nurse since 2005. I strongly encourage more men to take up nursing.

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