Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2025

No matter how many job boards allow you to create a personal profile with your career details, having your own consistently updated document accurately representing your expertise could not be a smarter way to always be ready for the next opportunity. Instead, you can keep a separate document on hand listing your most important references.

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Caregiver Support Services

MARCH 27, 2025

For example, suppose a patient has a wearable that feeds information to a central computer at the care agency that crunches the numbers and assesses risk levels. Paperless Documentation Part of this approach also involves the development of paperless documentation.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

While ensuring that your data is secure from misappropriation is at the core of your security efforts, the new reality is that this is no longer sufficient.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 10, 2022

They are not being given enough hours to make this into a full-time job so that they can feed their families.” - How to improve caregiver retention by predicting their satisfaction, HHCN. Clinical documentation. Manually uploading clinical documentation and forms not only takes up time but can be quite a hassle for the caregiver to do.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. And that I see as something very positive, because I think none of us like to spend hours documenting. Alex: Yeah, that sounds exciting. It just gets shorter and shorter and shorter.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

It is also documented that people with a disability tend to have poorer health outcomes, low education achievements and less economic participation and high rates of poverty than those without disabilities. To further affect long term change in this area, further research is required that can feed into national health policy.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Daniel eventually passed away about eight years ago, but not before he was placed on that trach and peritoneal dialysis and feeding tube and many other interventions and, all the while, not really focusing on what he wanted as a good quality of life. We just moved on to the next thing without a serious discussion about wishes.

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High Peaks Hospice

APRIL 16, 2022

no feeding tube, but open to antibiotics) and your Health Care Proxy names the person who will follow those wishes and make decisions. The majority of people, even those who are seriously ill, haven’t talked about or documented their wishes. A living will is an advance directive that speaks to what care you want or do not want (i.e.

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The process helps primary care professionals identify a person’s care goals and document and communicate their medical and personal preferences. “If Documenting care preferences in advance — Planning care early in the disease process is a meaningful way to identify, document, and communicate a patient’s goals.

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Nurse.com

JULY 27, 2023

This is important to include in your documentation, as it can provide more comprehensive insight into what the patient is experiencing. Finally, you document these changes in her care plan. Diagnosis After a thorough assessment, it’s now time to make nursing diagnoses using clinical judgment. Ready to enhance your nursing practice?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

When this happens, you’ll want to use these tips to document the hospice recertification with ease. While the nurse practitioner can perform the face-to-face visit, it is up to the hospice medical director to review the documentation and certify the patient still meets hospice criteria. Use Comparison Documentation.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 4, 2023

Medical consulting This involves healthcare companies and providers referring to experienced medical professionals to advise them on patient care strategies, review medical documents, and offer general expertise. Many first-time mothers struggle with breastfeeding obstacles and need additional support feeding their child naturally.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The answer to that question determined whether the beer went down the feeding tube or was a savor and spit process. The patient is asked about their pain level and the clinician documents the current pain level. Sunday dinners involved feeding four generations. Eva was the matriarch of her family.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

She could no longer feed herself, much less cook, and was dependent on others for everything. Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Within a year, she could only walk a few steps with help and mostly relied on a scooter.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You’ve had three documented conversations to “clarify code status.” Alex: A feeding tube. I point this out a lot more nowadays to the resident teams that consult. If the consult is for “code status,” I always ask them, take a look at your past conversations. I know, man, I just screwed up.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This document can specify your end-of-life wishes in the event that you become unable to make decisions for yourself. Living wills are legal documents that outline a person’s wishes for end-of-life medical care. When it comes to estate planning, one of the most important documents you can have is a living will.

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High Peaks Hospice

AUGUST 31, 2023

no feeding tube, but open to antibiotics) and your Health Care Proxy names the person who will follow those wishes and make decisions. The majority of people, even those who are seriously ill, haven’t talked about or documented their wishes. A living will is an advance directive that speaks to what care you want or do not want (i.e.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 11, 2022

So it’s funny, like explaining what Oasis E is to someone who doesn’t understand home health gets really tricky, but in just making notes, like for this podcast, I kind of keyed the term, the data document. So when you know a document, so well, it’s really hard to think of it changing. Are they short of breath?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” It’s not well-documented. But I think one aspect there was, what’s up with cancer pain, in general? Is cancer pain really different?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Alex: But moving on from Jim Carrey and Dumb and Dumber, Samir, I wanted to ask you, someone once taught me, it’s possible it’s Joel, I’m not sure, someone once said that research is the meticulous documentation of the blatantly obvious. You’ll have a feeding tube. You may end up there indefinitely.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Or is it the primary care document, who’s busy doing other things too, who probably won’t have the time to do a comprehensive geriatric assessment? By completing the Practical Geriatric Assessment, we’re able to feed in and get a result of the probable toxicity that patients will experience. No, no, please.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Lauren: And then in the ED, you intubate and then you figure it out later or the patient never had an advanced care planning document and now the family’s making the decision and it’s really hard to watch your loved one die. It won’t take long, go get it by yourself.”

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 11, 2022

This includes but is not limited to, showering, toileting, dressing and feeding to ensure quality care is delivered. Along with gaining valuable experience in phlebotomy, you develop skills in documentation, building rapport with patients (such as putting them at ease during the procedure), and learning about various blood tests.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 28, 2022

Encourage every caregiver to document personal details about each client in their care, such as how they like their eggs done, when they like to read their morning paper, how they like to spend their afternoon, and what types of tasks they expect to be done to guide any caregivers who may need to fill in while the assigned caregiver is unavailable.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the one hand people have said research is the meticulous documentation of the blatantly obvious, which is kind of LaVera’s point here. So I just want to say that I agree with you that it is frustrating that we have to prove our worth. Alex: Can you stick on this for a second. I’d love to get Karen’s thoughts on this.

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Death and Dying Chronicles

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Hospice staff refused to feed the person who was no longer able to safely swallow. All my patients have documented proof of disease, illness and treatments and outcomes. Hospice staff gave the person medication. That did it. Hospice staff had the person or family sign a DNR. That did it. Hospice staff told the person they were dying.

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The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Documentation and clinical orders have now become all electronic. When I was working as a nurse on the ward there was only a certain number of pumps and often, I had to gravity feed fluids and work out the drip rate for hydration. Patients no longer stay in a ward, taking up a hospital bed if they can go home.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Potential that documenting advance directives without a robust conversation about prognosis might have led to these findings. Jennifer 17:26 Documentation of end of life preferences. And we looked at newly documented end of life preferences. So intubation, cpr, feeding tubes. Wait, how is that actually defined?

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 30, 2022

Recognizing abnormal observations: What your caregiver decides to document can prove to be detrimental to their protection, the client’s health and safety, and your agency’s liability. Take the guessing game out of client records by clarifying which types of information your caregivers are expected to document on each caregiver visit note.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. Painstaking work to go through each outcome and really characterize and document what works and what doesn’t. They were slightly mischaracterized.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

They often have behavioral issues stemming from their disorder, their life circumstances, all sort of feeding into each other. We try to document that it’s for cravings or withdrawal symptoms or Sach. Folks with uncontrolled substance use disorder typically are very impulsive. They’re often angry.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

One of the most common frustrations hospice nurses have is related to how long it takes to complete hospice documentation. Then, documents from the referral source (i.e. Foleys/Tubes -Does the patient have any tubes such as feeding tubes, CADD pumps, or Foley catheters. And at the top of the list is the hospice admission.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So, and actually, all of this is actually document, I think what you guys are looking for is more practical advice on sort of management. It’s more of multiple domains that all play together at the same time. It’s, you know, it’s the experience of touch. Eric 34:12 Or other interventions. Alex 34:13 Yeah, okay.

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