Hospice of the North Coast

MAY 4, 2023

Hospice nurses help bring dignity and compassion to those who are suffering from a terminal illness. It’s a unique type of nursing that requires special skills and an understanding of the emotional challenges that come with end-of-life care. Choosing a career as a hospice nurse is a meaningful and rewarding experience.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

These types of patients might request home infusions of vitamins and minerals, immunoglobulins, or perhaps IV fluids for hydration or even getting over a hangover.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. And what is their motivation, Eric?

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Hospice 101

APRIL 27, 2020

But during this time, can we truly maintain healthy relationships with loved ones outside of the home? Many of us reading this article have a loved one in a facility, whether it is at an Assisted Living Facility, Memory Care Facility, Group Home, Senior Apartments, Skilled Nursing Home, Hospital, or other CBRF.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Around things like patients who are potentially going to stay in hospice longer, like patients with dementia, patients who are not dying with cancer. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia. 1983, a hospice agency started, now one of the largest in the US, by Don Gaetz. What motivated you?

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The Benefits Beyond the Hospital While there are plenty of benefits of working as a hospital nurse, countless skills can be developed outside of acute care. Let’s think even further afield from the hospital setting.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

She had an UTI, her transport back to the, um, nursing home that she was from was delayed go figure. So the charged nurse kind of parked me there and I’ll never forget just how I felt like she was so sad and thinking, oh my gosh, I hope she’s not like this all the time. Go sit with her. Wendie Colvin: ( 22:21 ).

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