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Emerging Services Help Hospice Patients Reduce Anxiety About Pets’ Future

Hospice News

The organization also deploys volunteers to help families care for animals in the home. “In In our quest to provide the absolute highest level of patient care, we saw the need to fully incorporate pets into our care model,” Crawford said in a blog post. We can get pets to grooming and veterinary appointments.

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Compassionate Care: 4 Ways Nurses Can Improve Patient Care

Daily Nurse

Compassion is more than being kind to patients or checking in regularly with folks with acute illnesses. Genuine compassion requires forward-thinking and careful planning. However, pursuing specialized credentials and further education is an excellent way for healthcare professionals to improve patient care quality.

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My year as a Florence Nightingale Foundation Digital Leadership Scholar

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This week’s blog is written Ellen Edwards (@EllenCEdwards), Senior Practice Educator – Clinical Support Desk, Welsh Ambulance Service. I was required to a present a quality improvement project, that I would like to undertake, to a panel of senior leaders and other applicants. A few months later the interview invite landed in my inbox.

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Lawsuits That Don’t Involve Patient Care Can Still Involve Nurses

Nurse.com

Most of my blogs over the years have examined conduct directly related to nursing practice and focused on nurses who have been named in professional negligence lawsuits or who were called as expert witnesses. But sometimes nurses have a role in a lawsuit that has nothing to do with patient care, as the following case illustrates.

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Everyday challenges of being a nurse team leader: “Do you have two minutes?”

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Blog by Jo McVey (Lecturer of Mental Health Nursing) at Glasgow Caledonian University. Being a N urse Team Leader in Older Adult Community Mental Health Services is three-fold: there is the management of staff, the management of a caseload of patients, and the management of a service. appeared first on Evidence-Based Nursing blog.

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4 Strategies to differentiate yourself from competitors in home health  

AlayaCare

This growth in home health has led to an increase in competition among different providers, making it necessary for home health providers to start differentiating themselves presenting the organization with an opportunity to grow their business. Elara Caring has invested heavily in technology to improve patient care and streamline operations.

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Nursing Work Environments: A Brief Guide

Nurse.com

Hospitals Nurses working in the hospital environment directly oversee and administer patient care plans. Typically, nurses spend time with and balance the care of several patients simultaneously. They must also communicate with the families of their patients regularly to keep them updated.