Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 17, 2024

Once familiar with your new environment, you may feel more at ease to truly be present for your loved one. If you normally take care of the patient’s basic needs at home, offering to help your nurse with feeding or bathing may provide emotional reassurance to you and your loved one. Read the original article.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

RECOMMENDED ARTICLE: Hospice IDG Top Time Wasters & How to Avoid Them. Simply put, you must compare the present to the past. For example, if your patient was eating 50% upon admission and able to feed themselves, and now they require assistance with feeding and are only eating 25%, you should state it in detail.

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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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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Today we are coming back for more (or less given the content), talking about the following articles with their lead authors: First up, we talk with Ariel Green about her article in JAMA Network on preferred phrases a clinician may use to explain why they should reduce or stop the medication. ” Ariel: Exactly.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2022

Be present. Listen and be present in the moment. Show Up and Be Present! Try these Simple Ways of Being Present. Recommended Article: How to Survive Your First Year As a Hospice Nurse. feeding tube) let them talk about that perfect steak or burger if they want to. Tips for Interacting With a Dying Patient.

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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. I don’t know.

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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 moreover, about 40% of those patients with POLST had last signed it or filled it out two years prior to that presentation.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 30, 2022

Article Contents: – Introduction. Article Contents: Why You Need a Professional Training Program. Since 2020, half of all agencies have introduced online courses into their training program to evolve with the challenges presented during the pandemic. Print Article. – What to Include in Your Training Program.

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The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Oncology Articles. It is my job to educate each patient on the regime they will be having, ensure the patient has a full understanding of the treatment and that they know how to manage any side effects that may present. Often the only symptom they will present with is a temperature. Write or Collaborate. Introduction.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By completing the Practical Geriatric Assessment, we’re able to feed in and get a result of the probable toxicity that patients will experience. We brought up your JAGS article, which we’ll link to our show notes about some of the geriatric needs, falls. William: Not the future, but the present. No, no, please.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 28, 2022

Article Contents: – Introduction. While we recognize that a caregiver isn’t hired to be a personal chef, sometimes clients do not have the ability to feed themselves or would appreciate being cared for in a small way with a simple dish. Print Article. – Complaint #10: Being treated like a job instead of a friend.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care. And the title of his article is, does culture of modern day palliative care social work leave room for leadership, where he interviewed six leaders in palliative care, five or six for social workers. And you feed the medicine in.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. So we can look at what the effect of this intervention on disparities.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I imagine that can present a pretty big obstacle to keeping care staff invested in their jobs. Don’t use the, you know, nursing magazine articles or, or. You couldn’t just, oh, let’s do some online learning. It didn’t exist. But not exclusively during, you know, COVID 19 and the pandemic.

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Home Care Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And, and there was an article that was written a few years ago that I shared that there was this woman, she has like 20 like a million followers on Instagram and she couldn’t sell 26 t-shirts. You stop on the content, you read the articles, you comment on the post, and that’s why you continue to see more.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 22, 2023

Article Contents: – Introduction – Battling Burnout in Post-Acute Care – Brenda’s Story – Are Your Brenda’s At Risk of Leaving – How to RETAIN Your Top Care Professionals – Take the Initiative – Next Steps Article Contents: 1. Print Article Introduction 2. But she left.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” And pointed out some of these inconsistencies with what was actually noted and concluded in some of the articles. Get the hospice referral.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Eric: I got a question because it was a ways back, but we did a podcast on keep your hands to yourself from a JAMA IMR article that showed that use of mechanical ventilation for nursing home residents with advanced dementia doubled between 2000 and 2013, that was a John Tino study. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Areej 03:50 So at the state of the science, I was actually presenting a study that was focused on addressing sexual health concerns in transplant survivors, and I actually told the story of the state of the science for those of you who were there. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness.

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