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The Well-Fed Nursing Career

Minority Nurse

Just like your body, your nursing career needs good nutrition. How are you feeding your career, and is it getting the macronutrients it needs to thrive? Not Rocket Science Feeding your nursing career an excellent nutritious diet may not be rocket science, but it doesn’t always come naturally.

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Payers to CMMI: We Need a Standardized Definition for Palliative Care

Hospice News

The common thread across health plans, [accountable care organizations (ACOs)] and across state Medicaid and Medicare agencies is really that the core team includes a physician, a nurse, a social worker and a spiritual care professional, and that pharmacists play a key role in medication management.

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Full and Fulfilling: A day in the Life of a Home Health Care Nurse

Traditions Health

Full and Fulfilling: A Day in the Life of a Home Health Care Nurse Climbing into her car each morning, Marsha Ramsey, RN, knows she has a full day ahead. As a Traditions Health home health care nurse, she makes old-fashioned house calls of sorts. Bob has a colostomy and feeding tube, so Marsha talks with him about his diet.

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Rise of the Dutch Model of Neighbourhood Care

AlayaCare

It is there, around the middle of last decade, where a local nurse named Jos de Blok decided to do something about the growing frustration that he and other colleagues felt about having less time for actual patient care. What started as four nurses grew to 12 per squad, responsible for 40-60 people in one geographic area.

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Why not try one of these jobs for nursing students?

The Nurse Break

Jobs for nursing students…As exciting as the big wide world of the healthcare industry is as a nursing student, it can also be daunting. Not only do you gain exposure to the industry to ease some of the nerves and grow in confidence, but you can also build valuable skills and abilities to support your journey into nursing.

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Home Health Care vs. Home Care: What’s the Difference

Traditions Health

Home health care Home health care provides the support needed to help you get and stay healthy.

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The Secret is Out: Hospice Recertification Made Easy!

Hospice Nurse Hero

If you’ve worked long enough as a hospice nurse, then there’s a good chance you’ve had to chart a patient’s hospice recertification. While the nurse practitioner can perform the face-to-face visit, it is up to the hospice medical director to review the documentation and certify the patient still meets hospice criteria.

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