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

According to this HHCN article , home-based care accounted for more than 20 percent of claims against nurses in 2020 – up from about 12 percent just five years prior. 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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Nurse.com

APRIL 4, 2023

One of the most complimentary careers to a side hustle is nursing. Side hustles are conducive with nursing because nurses have a broad skillset and can take advantage of flexible scheduling opportunities. Let’s look at the top 10 side hustles for nurses. It also allows nurses to work from home with more flexible hours.

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Nurse.com

JULY 27, 2023

Understanding and using the nursing process steps is essential for individualized patient-centered care. The five key steps guide nursing care and promote better communication among healthcare team members. Some of you are fresh out of nursing school, while others are more seasoned in your careers. Let’s review these steps.

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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. Hospice nursing supports patients with dementia.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This week’s blog is written by Barbara Kombe (@KombeBarbara), Neurodevelopment Clinical Nurse Specialist/Health Visitor, affiliated to Guys and St Thomas NHS trust. To further affect long term change in this area, further research is required that can feed into national health policy. appeared first on Evidence-Based Nursing blog.

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The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 3, 2022

We are excited to collaborate with GenesisCare to interview Anna Crawford, one of their Clinical Nurse Specialists with over 20 years of oncology nursing experience! My name is Anna Crawford and I am a Registered Nurse managing adult patients who have been diagnosed with cancer. The CNC role was one I truly enjoyed.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

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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. If you’ve worked long enough as a hospice nurse, then there’s a good chance you’ve had to chart a patient’s hospice recertification. Use Comparison Documentation. Document Changes in Care. Yep, you heard me right.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 11, 2022

Jobs for nursing students…As exciting as the big wide world of the healthcare industry is as a nursing student, it can also be daunting. Not only do you gain exposure to the industry to ease some of the nerves and grow in confidence, but you can also build valuable skills and abilities to support your journey into nursing.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. And the nurses says you’re making the right decision. You’ll have a feeding tube. She wasn’t communicating, she couldn’t remember anybody’s name, nothing. And she said, we didn’t want this.

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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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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Linda Leekley ( 00:49 ): Yeah, Wendy has, uh, I’ll speak for her and then she can add anything that she wants to, but she, uh, she, uh, uh, started her nursing career in, uh, acute care as, as many nurses did, Uh, did some time in the er and, and then moved to post-acute care. Um, I like the term data document for sure.

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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. Nursing shortages, coupled with increased demands related to an aging population.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. Eric: Yeah.

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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? It can be their patient reported tools, or their assessments that can be done in the clinic by an MA, a nurse, someone else with just a digested version. No, no, please.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Could it be the bedside nurse? It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. For inquiries or to apply, please contact gayle.kojimoto@ucsf.edu.

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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. That did it… There once was an elderly woman, in her 80’s, suffering from dementia and currently a flu like illness that had been going around the nursing home. Hospice staff gave the person medication. That did it. That did it. That did it.

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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. A lot has changed, but what motivated the study was a recognition that most advanced care planning interventional research had been undertaken in nursing homes. So intubation, cpr, feeding tubes.

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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

And I ran into a nurse in the stairwell eating, because we don’t have any space to eat and she’s eating. 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. They were slightly mischaracterized.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. They often have behavioral issues stemming from their disorder, their life circumstances, all sort of feeding into each other. We just unlearn what we have learned.

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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. doctor, hospital, nursing home) are added to the electronic medical record. They told the family that the hospice would supply the tube feedings.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

I actually went to planned parenthood of Rhode island, and as a practicing oncologist, sat with folks, some of who had just graduated high school, others who were nurse practitioners, and they started from the very, very basics of pelvic anatomy. These are oncology nurse practitioners. Who asks about sexual health and intimacy?

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