Healthy Workforce Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

This article is the last in our series of articles focused on reducing patient abuse in healthcare. For example, if patient violence occurs more frequently during a period when a patient is told they have cancer, perhaps you could have a social worker or counselor be present or offer additional support during the period of time after.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

This article is sponsored by KanTime. This article is based on a Palliative Care News discussion with Deanna Heath, Senior Vice President of customer experience at KanTime, Jared King, Vice President of business development and sales at Hospice Dynamix and Sundar Kannan, CEO of KanTime. Where does it belong?

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CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

In this article, we'll explore how to start a hospice agency and ensure its success. At the heart of a hospice care is its staff, including nurses, doctors, social workers, and chaplains. A solid understanding of your financial health is crucial in making informed decisions and planning for future investment growth.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

This article is sponsored by VNS Health. In this Voices article, Josie Aquino, Director, Product Management, VNS Health talks about how VNS Health is using data and analytics to improve end-of-life care. Editor’s Note: This article has been edited for length and clarity.

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Nurse.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

When this occurs, nurses must try to provide effective communication, so the patient is informed and understood. An article in the Journal of Advanced Nursing explored the perspectives of bilingual nurses. Nurses and social workers interact with families. This limits access for other patients if the aid is in use.

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Pallimed

MARCH 22, 2021

by Vickie Leff ( @VickieLeff ) Another year, another study proving the value of the palliative care social worker. It surprises me that despite much research and team role development, palliative care team members may not be aware of the importance of the palliative care social worker. I was not the only one.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

Article Contents: – Introduction – Understand the needs and wants of your referral source. – Demonstrate your high-quality care whenever possible – Key Takeaways Article Contents: Introduction Understand the needs and wants of your referral source. . Print Article Learn More 4.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Article Contents: – Introduction. Article Contents: 1. For example, if you’ve ever used Angi, HomeAdvisor, or Thumbtack to find a lawn service or a handyman, you were using a lead generation service or paid lead program; the providers that you were referred to paid to receive your information. . Print Article.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This article is sponsored by CHAP. Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice? For more information on Voices, please contact sales@agingmedia.com. The question for me is why wouldn’t it? The post Voices: ??Dr.

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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. To make matters worse, hospices have lost social worker employees at a faster rate than any other health care setting in the care continuum as turnover rises to 27%. Print Article.

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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. Contact Traditions Health for More Information We hope this article has helped you better understand the role hospice care can have in caring for someone with ALS.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. But what about the social workers and the chaplains?

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Ann Kelly, who’s been on the podcast many times, social worker on palliative care, she’s always under a minute. There’s not that much information on smoking and cognition. And because we can’t resist, we dip into aducanumab and lecanemab at the end. AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 11, 2022

Also go check out this article. The exposure to medications is invaluable, you are always learning and building further information about them. Such as: Disability Support Worker Clinical Trials Assistant Operating Theatre Technician Social Worker Dental Nurse Drug and Alcohol Worker Family Support Worker … the list goes on!

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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. She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. To have a social worker who’s dedicated in many places. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So in the VA, psychologist and a social worker and a chaplain and a doctor and a nurse are all mandated components of a palliative care team. We have a social worker.”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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. Yeah, I think we took a pretty broad definition in the article, but really it’s any failure to communicate clearly and adequately. I didn’t assign somebody to ask.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Having read at least some of your research articles there’s a lot of focus around this intersection between what happens to people after the hospital stay post-acute, especially in the cancer patients. Eric: I felt that reading the article. We’ll have a link to that article on our show notes. Ann: Likely.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Stacy: I honestly read Michael Pollan’s New Yorker article and was really inspired, and cold emailed the group at NYU, and they responded. There was an article in New York Times last week about rampant prescribing of psychedelics. We just don’t have that information, and people should just be careful. Eric: Yeah.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Her work is informed not only by her career of more than 20 years as a hospice professional but also by her experience as a caregiver for her husband. So I had that to inform my caregiving. They’re tele-novellas; they use dramatic stories to inform people. We supplement that with additional resources and articles and things.

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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. That CNA, that nurse, that social worker, that chaplain feels supported in the field by this robust tool. This discussion took place on October 3rd, 2024.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Today we talk with Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint, and Anne Kelly, authors of a JGIM article on the reasons we shouldn’t stop at “no.” Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. Should you stop at “no?”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. If there was a headline for this article, what would it be? Welcome, Liz. Liz: Thanks.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

For a deeper diver into these issues, check out some of the following links: Ira’s Stat new article “Hospice care needs saving” GeriPal’s episode on the growing role of private equity in hospice care Acquisitions of Hospice Agencies by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Corporations. Ira: I like the article. Thank you, Anne.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. Would you also just mind mentioning kind of the JPSM article too? What drove you to write that article on this important trip to Seattle? And my article is about when I was a mid to junior faculty member trying to build this career.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

But if you want to learn more, check out these links: The report by NASEM titled “ The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality ” The website for the Moving Forward We will also link to the JAGS articles co-authored by seven committee members that focus on specific recommendations of the NASEM report when they get published (stay tuned).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2024

This article is sponsored by KanTime. This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Deanna Heath, SVP of Customer Experience at KanTime, Jennifer Hannum, Director of Learning Services at KanTime, and J’non Griffin, Principal/SVP Coding and Compliance Departments at SimiTree. Same thing with aides, social workers, chaplains.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And what she found most compelling was the work of the peer workers. Eric: Because that article wasn’t too long ago.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JULY 24, 2022

For instance, you’ll find there are informal and formal leaders, easygoing nurses, overwhelmed nurses, and everything in between. RELATED ARTICLE: Hospice IDG: Top Time Wasters and How to Avoid Them. This will ensure that you are only providing relevant information and facts. Try to think back to your first nursing job.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. That dawned on me.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We are going to tackle this question and so many more about coping on this week’s podcast with Dani Chammas , a recurring GeriPal guest, psychiatrist, and palliative care doc at UCSF, and Amanda Moment , a Palliative Care Social Worker at Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center. Dani, welcome back to GeriPal. Is this adaptive?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Alex, who are our guests today?

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinical social worker at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Daniel Eison (pediatric PC doc and co-host of PediPal). But when I have, I find that they’re often some of the hardest patients to care for. Abby: Thank you. Happy to be here.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Miscommunication of this information could lead to unwanted interventions, and Alice could end up on breathing support in the emergency department, something she clearly does not want. Do your social workers know how to access the lending closet for specialized equipment? Provide a lot of rehabilitation after joint surgery?

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