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7 ‘Hidden Gem’ Hospice News Stories in 2024

Hospice News

Doulas can help foster collaborative, goal-concordant care as well as improve quality, according to some hospices. These professionals are able to provide additional bedside services and better understand the challenges that patients and caregivers are facing. Hospices have also pointed to doulas potential to help reduce disparities.

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Ep. 45 -  The Heart of a Hospice Nurse

HPNA podcast

In this deeply personal and resonant episode, longtime hospice nurse and podcast host of The Heart of Hospice , Helen Bauer, BSN RN CHPN, shares an intimate look at the soul of hospice nursing the part thats rarely documented but always deeply felt.

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PeaceHealth Hospice Nurses Move Forward with Strike

Hospice News

Hospice and home health nurses at PeaceHealth’s Sacred Heart Home Care Services have announced an impending strike following failed attempts to reach wage agreements in negotiations with the organization. Home care and hospice nurses at PeaceHealth have given notice that the strike will launch on Feb. 1 and end on Feb.

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Nurses’ Union Reaches Labor Agreement with PeaceHealth for Hospice, Home Health Workers

Hospice News

Priorities among the hospice and home nurses include wage increases, raising safety standards, ensuring affordable and accessible home health care delivery, equitable pay protection and addressing clinical staffing crises by increasing recruitment and retention of skilled caregivers.

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Tidewell Hospice Develops Simulation Lab for Clinical Training

Hospice News

The lab is designed to give new hospice clinicians hands-on experience and hone their skills before they go out to engage directly with patients and families. A centerpiece of the lab is two interactive medical mannequins that stand in the role of a patient and a caregiver. Tidewell named the pair Apollo and Ares.

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Hospice, Home Health Nurses Unionize at Oregon’s St. Charles Health System

Hospice News

The system also operates four hospitals and several family care clinics, with 4,500 caregivers, more than 350 active medical staff and 250 visiting medical staff. Charles Hospice nurse Cherie Iannucci, who helped organize the movement to seek union representation. Charles Health System, told Hospice News in an email. “We

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Hospice Nurses Take a Holistic Approach to Dementia Care

Nurse.com

This can only be achieved if care teams, including hospice nurses, know the latest evidence-based strategies for dementia care. But hospice nurses also recognize the challenges these patients and their families face every day and are ready to help ease their distress and fear. When we know better, we do better.”.