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Data Trends Point to Palliative Care’s Return on Investment

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Researchers examined 345 hospitalized HCC patients who underwent palliative locoregional therapy between January 2015 and December 2022. Patients with HCC who cannot undergo surgical resection often present with varying degrees of comorbidity burdens,” researchers stated. Nearly half, or 46.4% Nearly half, or 46.1%

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Challenges for children’s palliative care

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

There is a belief that the preferred place of death for adults and children is home (Ellingsen et al 2014; Pollock, 2015; Rainsford et al 2018). 2015) ‘Problems with preference and place of death for children too’, BMJ , (19th November), p. 2015) Is home always the best and preferred place of death, BMJ, 351, pp. Beecham, E.

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Georgia Hospital Improves Organ Donation Process

Daily Nurse

A series of organ donation presentations in 2018 and 2019 provided staff education. The number of organ referrals doubled, from 169 in 2015 to 320 in 2021. The number of organ donors in 2021 was 31, with more than 22 donors in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

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Breaking the Silence: The Mounting Need for Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

Hospice News

A 2015 study analysis published in the journal BMC Public Health found that nearly two-thirds of the female home care workforce experiences some type of workplace violence annually. Victims battle an ever-present landmine of potential triggers as they reach the end of their lives. Sexual harassment and aggression impacted 27.6%

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Ep. 31 - The Role and Professional Standards of the Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner in Hospice and Palliative Care

HPNA podcast

In 2015, she earned her PhD in Nursing from the University of Arizona, College of Nursing, earned her master’s in nursing: Adult Nurse Practitioner from the University of Colorado, College of Nursing in 2006, and received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from University of Arkansas, Eleanor Mann School of Nursing in 1996.

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Traumatic Brain Injury: The Road to Recovery

Daily Nurse

About TBI Kelly Tuttle, FNP , is a neurology nurse practitioner who suffered a traumatic brain injury after a car accident in 2015. In her book, After the Crash: How to Keep Your Job, Stay in School, and Live Life After a Brain Injury , she chronicles her story and provides firsthand advice on how to recover and thrive after a TBI.

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New CMOs for Hospice of the Chesapeake, Care Synergy; HopeWest Taps New VP

Hospice News

She has also presented and published literature on the different types of supportive services, including palliative, hospice, acute and post-acute care. Worswick took a similar circuitous route at Paradigm Health since she joined the company in 2015, holding roles such as physical therapist and administrator.

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