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Addressing Anticipatory Grief: A Hospice Chaplain’s Perspective

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Hospice News sat down with Brian Richards, a hospice chaplain and bereavement coordinator at Traditions Health in Wichita, Kansas, about the ways hospice teams can care for patients and families experiencing anticipatory grief. Our nursing staff does the medical symptoms. What is anticipatory grief?

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Shoring Up the Next Generation of Hospice Chaplains

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More professionals from a wider range of interfaith groups are entering the field, according to Shana Sullivan, bereavement coordinator of Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice. This can make recruitment and retention difficult among the next generation of the spiritual care workforce. Sullivan is also an end-of-life doula and chaplain.

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Hunterdon Hospice’s Relaunches Trauma-Informed Bereavement Program

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These deaths can be traumatizing and bring on complicated grief experiences, with some individuals needing greater support compared to other types of losses, according to Laura Suozzo, licensed clinical social worker and bereavement coordinator at Hunterdon Hospice. “We Their sadness is so raw and painful.

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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

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White serves as bereavement coordinator and chaplain at Kansas-based Interim HealthCare of Topeka. A bigger challenge we often see is for those couples facing financial burdens related to the need for inpatient care in an assisted living or skilled nursing facility.

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Grief Coach Rebrands to Help Texts, Launches Health Care Worker Support Service

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Turnover among registered nurses, for example, reached 25.15% during 2022, according to the 2022-2023 Hospice Salary & Benefits Report , published by Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). We can’t take in huge amounts of information.

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Phoenix Children’s Palliative Chief: Shift the Culture in Health Care

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Shaw’s large staff includes eight board-certified doctors, an advanced nurse practitioner, a social worker, a mental health therapist, a bereavement coordinator, a bereavement counselor, a psychologist, a nurse coordinator and a medical assistant.

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Bill Would Create New State-Level Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Care Program

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When you’re looking to build this service you have to have enough people to choose from, and we are really struggling right now in the nursing workforce, social workers, and other support staff – especially since the pandemic hit,” Wodatch told Hospice News. Keeping the staff’s skills honed for less demand is challenging. “We