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We can’t just go out to nurses and say, ‘I’ll bump [your pay] a buck an hour,’” English told Hospice News’ sister publication HomeHealth Care News. “I Merz Photography / Hospice News Merz Photography / Hospice News Bill English, president and CEO, Accurate Home Care at the CONTINUUM Conference.
An emerging debate The legislation pieces have raised similar concerns among hospice and homehealth providers around patient access and continuity of care. Established in 1974, the nonprofit’s more than 200 employees provide care to upwards of 50 hospitals, assistedliving and skilled nursing facilities, as well as in the home.
The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of homehealth, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. One day, a homehealthnurse came into the facility and said, “You should get into homehealth.”
When we’re in nursing school , it often seems that hospital nursing is the only type of nursing that anyone cares or talks about. Since hospital rotations are what most of us are after, a large number of nursing students probably groan and gripe about a rotation in homehealth, dialysis, or community health.
Home Care Nurse or In-Home Personal Caregiver? In today’s aging society, more seniors are choosing to age in place, favoring the familiarity and comfort of their own homes over the institutional setting of assistedliving or nursing facilities.
Have you ever heard a nurse pass judgment on a colleague and say that another nurse isn’t a “real nurse”? Have you noticed some nurses looking down on those who choose to be school nurses or work in homehealth, dialysis, assistedliving, medical offices, or ambulatory surgery?
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