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Ep. 36: Breaking Down the Silos Between Palliative Care and Hospice

HPNA podcast

In this episode, HPNA and HPNF board members Rikki Hooper and Yvonne Ruathaiwat expand on their perspectives and experiences regarding the palliative continuum of care, and how they break down the silos between palliative care and hospice. She has been part of the core team for several Project Echo projects at Four Seasons.

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Hospice in a Hurricane: How Empath Health Responded to Back-to-Back Disasters

Hospice News

Hospice providers in the southeastern United States are reeling from the impacts of two massive hurricanes that have occurred during the past two weeks. mainland since Katrina in 2005. We do our best through pre-storm planning to come up with our communication plans with our patients and their families. The death toll as of Oct.

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

The Nurse Break

I have been an Emergency Nurse since 2005. As a palliative care nurse I provide comfort and care to patients with terminal diseases or who are end of life, while supporting the family. I am a Critical Care Nurse (CCRN) in Intensive Care at a major tertiary hospital and state-wide trauma service.

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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.