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LPNS and LVNs: A Potential On-Ramp to a Satisfying Nursing Career

Daily Nurse

Licensed practical nurses (also known as licensed vocational nursesor LVNsin Texas and California) are nurses who have been trained to provide direct care to patients in assisted living and memory care facilities, nursing homes, clinics, physician offices, home health, and some hospitals.

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Stratis Health Builds Framework for Expanding Rural Community-Based Palliative Care

Hospice News

Oftentimes it’s either combination of home visits and telephonic services. Sometimes they might be doing consultations either inpatient or in the nursing home or in assisted living. How’s it being documented? It usually isn’t. So sometimes you have that sort of model. Who is aware of it?

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How to Start a Hospice Agency: A Step-by-Step Guide

CareAcademy Blog

To operate as a hospice agency, you must provide four levels of care: Routine home care This type of care is similar to standard home health services, with caregivers visiting patients regularly to monitor health and nutrition, offer physical therapy, manage medications, and document a patients well-being and quality of life.

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8 Nurse Staffing Models To Try

Nurse.com

Nurses are thriving with these novel staffing models. Utilizing LPNs in acute care Many licensed practical nurses/licensed vocational nurses (LPN/LVNs) seek jobs in post-acute care (nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living) or ambulatory facilities. “We

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . Assisted living, I can’t even say the word.

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3 Strategies for Hospice GIP Compliance

Hospice News

GIP is used for acute symptom management that cannot be addressed in the home or other setting, according to Hold-Weiss. Operators may not provide that level of care in a home, hospice residential facility, assisted living or a long term care nursing home, she said.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. You’re not going to end up going back home after the surgery.

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