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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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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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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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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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

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. Eric 01:13 Yeah, you got to jump in. Take it over.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. And I think that’s where we want to be.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2025

In this Voices interview, Hospice News speaks with Enclaras SVP of Patient Care Operations, Erin Harris, PharmD, about how Enclaras contact center supports hospice nurses in delivering exceptional care. Nurses transmit dispense requests digitally, allowing pharmacists to review them and follow up if needed. Can you share some examples?

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. Alex 08:07 There’s no documented photographic evidence that I. I’m gonna put feeding tubes in advanced dementia as a pluot.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. Mobile technology is not just used for documentation, but it’s really an integrated workflow for the caregiver at the bedside.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. Welcome, Karl.

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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. The nurse is going to be here and help make you feel a whole lot better.”

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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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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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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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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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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

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

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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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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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

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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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

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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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

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

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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