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Beyond compensation: How home care agencies can add value for caregivers

AlayaCare

In the ever-changing home care industry, there are innumerable variables that agencies must strategically consider – as well as those that are hard to predict but still need to be managed carefully. An aging demographic’s impact on the caregiving industry is certainly one variable that agencies must anticipate.

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Traumatic Brain Injury: The Road to Recovery

Daily Nurse

It is an all-pervasive experience that can wreak havoc on the lives of patients and their loved ones, and the road to recovery can be long. Support groups connect TBI survivors and their caregivers with people who will be understanding and knowledgeable about other community resources and local TBI care providers.”

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How To Paint the Picture:10 Better Words to Chart

Hospice Nurse Hero

However, the second example has more details demonstrating how the patient is declining. Example #1: Routine Visit (Don’t) Patient resting in bed upon arrival. Patient alert and responsive. Requires assistance with ADLs. Family states the patient is sleeping more and has not wanted to get out of bed lately.

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Hospice Documentation What You Need to Know

Hospice Nurse Hero

First, like all nurses, hospice nurses are required to document ALL patient care. Inaccurate and inconsistent documentation is a red flag and could have a negative impact on your patients, your license, and your agency. They also demonstrate how the team is educating and supporting the patient’s families and caregivers.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

Laura is passionate about providing quality care and focuses on company culture, organized processes, and strategic growth. Laura has a team of over 40 administrative staff and 400 caregivers providing over 9,000 hours of service per week in the community. Our caregivers, of course, can do those medication reminders.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Joseph Gaugler is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation at the University of Minnesota, director of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief of the Gerontologist. The caregivers are certainly very frustrated and overwhelmed if, you know, if there are caregivers.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.