Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The inpatient cap limits the number of days of inpatient care for which Medicare will pay to 20% of a hospice’s total Medicare patient care days, according to OIG. GIP is used for acute symptom management that cannot be addressed in the home or other setting, according to Hold-Weiss.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nurse specialists and nurse generalists are both common within the nursing profession and 21st-century healthcare, and both serve important purposes in patient care as well as non-clinical settings. What are the repercussions for your nursing career? And how can one accomplish both?

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Nurses are leaving direct care — and dissatisfaction with outdated staffing models may be a big reason why. How can you provide safe, efficient patient care and meet the evolving needs of nurses? Innovative nurse staffing models can be the answer. Nurses are thriving with these novel staffing models.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 8, 2023

Without nurses, the healthcare system would essentially grind to a halt. We call nurses the lifeblood of healthcare, and they're also the connective tissue and the veritable mitochondria, the cellular powerhouses of the delivery of patient care. But nurses are more than that.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nurses, the hard-working lifeblood and connective tissue of the healthcare system, can often feel as if they are doing battle with elemental forces far beyond their control in their efforts to provide optimal patient care and fulfill their personal and professional mission.

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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.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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