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Ep.2: How to Use Your Training Program to Boost Caregiver Engagement

Home Care Pulse

Welcome to vision, the home care leaders podcast. I’m Melissa Mendes with home care pulse. Five things, every home care director of nursing needs to know. I’d like to introduce Daisy Dalegowski from BrightStar Care out of Denver, Colorado, where Daisy is the director of nursing.

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Caring for the Caregivers: Keys for Helping Family Members in Palliative Care Roles

Hospice News

The duties of family-member caregivers may include transportation, bill paying, dressing, bathing, and other activities of daily living, in addition to medical assistance such as medication administration. They also experience emotional and mental health issues due to lack of sleep, grief and watching the suffering of a family member.

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Episode 27: How to Manage Grief

Living With Hospice

Revisiting this complex topic for a third time, Mitch Ware takes a deeper look into the seven stages of grief and explores how we cycle through them. We've addressed grief in two previous episodes. Well, today, we're going to take a look at a little different perspective at grief and the ways to manage it. Grief just sucks.

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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

Skilled nursing is the general medical care provided to patients and includes such services as medication management, wound care, patient education, etc. Nurses aides can assist with activities of daily living such as toileting, bathing, and feeding. What Does Hospice Care Include?

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How To Help A Loved One During End of Life

Shining Light Hospice

The RN case manager will set up regular nursing visits at the patient’s home and will provide the bulk of the medical care. Home health aides provide help with activities of daily living such as bathing, when the patient requires that assistance. Chaplains are also available for spiritual care.

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What Are The Four Levels of Hospice Care?

Seasons Hospice

Hospice care teams work with patients to develop individualized pain management plans that aim to minimize a patient’s pain and maximize their comfort. In addition to pain management, hospice care teams also provide other types of physical support, such as help with basic activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and eating.

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Episode 29: Hospice and the Holidays

Living With Hospice

It's all part of the grief cycle. And the grief process is a real thing. The calendars kept the toileting, the bathing everything, and we look up and boom, here it is Thanksgiving. You know, I had a patient who was in hospice home care. It impacts how we behave. And it impacts how we feel. That's huge.

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