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5 tips to improve and better utilize your home care plans [Free tip sheet]

AlayaCare

The caregiver employment crisis has the home care industry on its toes looking for solutions to employee churn. One of those solutions is to evaluate the top complaints caregivers have on the job and improve them to increase employee retention. Items not assigned are often missed and can result in gaps in care.

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5 tips to improve and better utilize your home care plans [Free tip sheet]

AlayaCare

The caregiver employment crisis has the home care industry on its toes looking for solutions to employee churn. One of those solutions is to evaluate the top complaints caregivers have on the job and improve them to increase employee retention. Items not assigned are often missed and can result in gaps in care.

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How Nurses Can Better Advocate for Their Patients

Caregiver Support Services

As a nurse, you should speak clearly, use language your patients can understand, and answer their questions thoroughly. Know Patients’ Rights Nurses must know their patients’ rights and understand how to protect them. Patients have the right to privacy, informed consent, and freedom from abuse and mistreatment.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Who do you give informed consent to?

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