Seasons Hospice

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It can be overwhelming to navigate the complexities of managing medical appointments, coordinating care, and providing daily assistance with tasks such as bathing, dressing, and meal preparation. Additionally, caregivers may face their own stressors, such as work commitments, family responsibilities, and personal health issues.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. Imagine you receive a telephone call from the nursing home about the following resident.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 16, 2023

While palliative care can be offered in the home, palliative care is commonly offered as a part of a comprehensive care program, alongside medical care, in an extended healthcare facility or nursing home.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 30, 2024

Managing Your Time in Facilities Hospice nurses must take care to manage their time in the nursing home. Make sure you are familiar with the nursing home codes and staff. Visit during meals and at bath time. Additionally, you want to know who to give report to at the end of your shift. With your own eyes!!

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Shining Light Hospice

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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. Nursing Care And Symptom Management.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

First, CAHPS stands for Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control. Also, nurse supervisors can share survey scores and comments with the hospice IDG.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

ePrognosis started out as just a list of different prognostic indices, so things to predict mortality in hospitalized adults, things to predict mortality in community dwelling adults, things to predict mortality in nursing home residents. And we’ve been slowly building that out. That’s been reported previously.

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The Chaplain's Report

JULY 9, 2022

“Helen” is an elderly woman who lives in one of the nicer nursing homes in my area. In today’s work climate in healthcare though, that is a rare commodity. This will include dressing, bathing, toileting, cleaning, and meals.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JANUARY 18, 2022

More and more people are choosing to die at home. Since the healthcare system first started keeping track of this in the 70s, most people died in hospitals. However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. 24/7 On-call Hospice Nurse.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

She bathed her, dressed her, and combed her hair. My charge nurse was also amazing. While nearly 80% of people say they want to die at home , only 20% do. Believe it or not, many people still end up dying in acute care settings or nursing homes. The following information is for Healthcare Professionals.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Unfortunately, it will also interfere with the ability to perform activities of daily living such as eating, toileting, and bathing. The hospice team may consist of an attending physician, an RN case manager, a home health aide, a chaplain, and a social worker. What Causes Dementia?

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Alex 16:46 On time to nursing, needing nursing home level of care. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home. Acute care is called acute care for a reason.

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