Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 27, 2025

I debated whether to focus this article on how efficiency connects to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services National Quality Strategy or how it relates to proactive patient identification in skilled nursing. It also requires balance, however. Lean too hard into efficiency, and you risk overlooking important details.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Article 25, reinforces the right of persons to attain the highest standard of healthcare without discrimination. To further affect long term change in this area, further research is required that can feed into national health policy.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Step 2: Research Your Goal Once you’ve identified that you’d like to understand more about working in a non-clinical role, it’s time to gather information. You may also find podcasts, articles, videos, and social media feeds that help you stay current.

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Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 4, 2023

She currently partners with leaders to uncover and understand their most significant pain points and opportunities to inform what digital solutions they build and to inform new features for their current solutions. Also, with social media like TikTok, it can take time to find trustworthy information. What works and why?

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

million cases in 2050, according to an article in The Lancet. This ensures that the family and the care team honor the patient’s wishes like determining do not resuscitate (DNR) status, using ventilator support, and providing enteral feedings. Information about support groups and resources to ease isolation.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. What is ALS?

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

Article Contents: – Introduction. Article Contents: Why Leaving the Care Industry is Like Moving Out of California. They want to know when I need them so they can plan the rest of their life which feeds into the notion of work-life balance. Print Article. Keep Your Care Staff Engaged Through a Recession.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

Please read full disclosure for more information. You’re like the detective gathering all the clues ( information ) from the past several months to support changes in the patient’s condition. RECOMMENDED ARTICLE: Hospice IDG Top Time Wasters & How to Avoid Them. This post may contain affiliate links.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 28, 2022

Article Contents: – Introduction. Inform your clients of the services your agency provides before they let their assumptions lead to disappointment. Print Article. – Complaint #10: Being treated like a job instead of a friend. – Complaint #9: Care staff that lack accountability. Like it the old fashioned way?

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The Nurse Break

JULY 17, 2022

Student & Grad articles. Some of the tasks I perform are personal hygiene, vital signs, feeding and fluids. We interview Jessica Lambert, a final year nursing student at the University of Tasmania about her nursing studies. She gives some great pieces of advice that all nursing students should read. Write for us.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Lee: And I think there’s a dearth of information about what proportion of nursing home residents have diabetes. ” We are able to initiate basal insulin, titrate it with that information, and then after about four weeks, blood sugars were down in the 200. They need to be back on insulin.” Eric: Practical advice.

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Comfort Home Care

APRIL 18, 2024

In this article, we share vital information about Parkinson’s Disease, the role in-home care can have in managing its challenges, and the qualities to seek in an in-home care provider. Our dedication lies in offering compassionate, comprehensive, and personalized in-home care services to Rockville, MD, families.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 11, 2022

Also go check out this article. This includes but is not limited to, showering, toileting, dressing and feeding to ensure quality care is delivered. The exposure to medications is invaluable, you are always learning and building further information about them. Here are some ideas to get you started! Event Medic – First Aid.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET?

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Eric 01:13 Yeah, you got to jump in. Take it over.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Because, if anybody hasn’t seen it, you’ve got a great Twitter feed that gives tons of pearls on palliative care and a lot on communication. Eric: Well, this is the part that I love about your article, too, is that it’s not just these big, big family meetings where miscommunication happens. laughter] Don: All right.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

For example, there was one article that we reviewed for Jags where it asked great questions, they gave great prompts, and ChatGPT answered great questions about antipsychotics and gave a list of references to back up ChatGPT’s assertions. Our names were slightly off. And they were complete hallucinations. Eric: Please respond.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And it’s with this information from the geriatric assessment that we can really create interventions, and so that’s something that Alex and I strongly believe that we should move forward with. We have the chemo talks tool posted, so people can go there and click and immediately get the information about this.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2025

This article is sponsored by Enclara Pharmacia. Every call or message creates a case that feeds into our newly developed dashboard. Pharmacists document essential patient-specific concerns, providing clear and consistent information for nurses and prescribers. Editors note: This article has been edited for length and clarity.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Is cancer pain really different? Should we be excluding it?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

We’ve invited Jacqueline Kruser and Bob Arnold on this week’s podcast to talk about their recently published JAMA Viewpoint article titled “ Reconsidering the Language of Serious Illness. ” You recently published an article in the New Yorker titled, I can’t even read my own, what was the title again? Of course not.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This article is sponsored by CareXM. This article is based on a virtual discussion with Kathleen Benton, President and CEO of Hospice Savannah. This discussion took place on October 3rd, 2024. Hospice News: I’m now pleased to introduce our speaker. Dr. Kathleen Benton is the CEO at Hospice Savannah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Oh, thanks.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’d also like to give a shout out to a recent ACP article on HFpEF with an outstanding contribution from Ariela Orkaby, geriatrician extraordinaire (we also just did a podcast with her on frailty ). ** This podcast is not CME eligible. It’s awesome. So I’ll be singing along to that. Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

They often have behavioral issues stemming from their disorder, their life circumstances, all sort of feeding into each other. But that was my take home from Danny’s article. It is the CME activity providers responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed. Alex: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

She could no longer feed herself, much less cook, and was dependent on others for everything. Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Within a year, she could only walk a few steps with help and mostly relied on a scooter.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 15, 2023

Rural Healthcare on the Edge According to a May 2023 article in the journal Chief Healthcare Executive , 35% of the hospitals in the U.S. However, the reality is that the shortage of qualified nursing professionals is in no way confined to the cities. Rural communities are also suffering, and the need for action is paramount.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. Respectful disagreement is in short supply these days.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 30, 2022

Article Contents: – Introduction. Article Contents: Why You Need a Professional Training Program. Take the guessing game out of client records by clarifying which types of information your caregivers are expected to document on each caregiver visit note. – Why You Need a Professional Training Program.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

In today’s podcast we talk with surgeon Samir Shah and Health Services Researcher Joel Weissman about a pair of JAGS articles they published on the outcomes of high risk surgery and advance care planning among persons with dementia. But they don’t really have a lot of condition-specific or procedure-specific information at all.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 6, 2023

Article Contents: – Introduction Article Contents: For Training Managers, Hospice & Healthcare Facilities Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. Print Article Like it the old fashioned way?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

If your agency is still on paper then you will likely have a physical chart with this information. Regardless, there are key pieces of information that your intake team should obtain. Review Intake Information and Records. You don’t want to wait until you get the patient’s home to review this information!

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Article Contents: – Introduction. Article Contents: Hospice experiences: Meeting You Where You Are/a> Is standardizing data the end of individualized care? The answer to that question determined whether the beer went down the feeding tube or was a savor and spit process. Print Article.

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The Nurse Break

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Write your own article! Learn more Read other similar articles Hi, my name is Aimee and I have transitioned from singer/DJ to RN over the last 4 years! Be an information seeker and lean on your peers, create study groups and revision sessions together. I found teaching the content helped me understand the content too.

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