Diversity Nursing

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As Gen Z Nurses begin to enter the workforce, they bring fresh perspectives and unique expectations for their careers. Technology as a Recruiting Tool According to Jean Putnam , Chief Nurse Executive at Baptist Health South Florida, "Gen Z-ers are our first truly digitally native generation.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 4, 2025

To lessen hospital nurses’ administrative burden and give them more time for meaningful patient care, Cedars-Sinai is testing an artificial intelligence (AI) mobile app called Aiva Nurse Assistant. The app allows nurses to use a mobile phone to document patient information in real-time through voice dictation.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2024

What I would say is make sure that whatever you’re doing for your clinicians as far as here, document this because we need it for such and such regulation. If you want to form a committee around what is the best way to improve that documentation again. Be very transparent with that. They will have a better home-life balance.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A frequent goal is reducing the amount of time spent on documentation. Though complete and accurate documentation is essential to regulatory compliance, patient safety and securing payment, the sheer amount of it is taxing for staff. Among the dissatisfiers is the encroachment of documentation into clinicians personal lives.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2022

A clinician may not not have realized they were acting contrary to patients’ wishes due to insufficient training, documentation errors or process breakdowns. . They know the patient’s wishes were documented but chose to ignore them. In other instances, a health care provider acts deliberately.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

This can be a challenge, especially when it comes to documentation. Strategy #1: Evaluate your staff’s documentation habits Everything begins at documentation, and that means hospice providers have to establish a baseline for the accuracy and speed of their documentation. It wasn’t meeting minimal standards.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Having ongoing, internal clinical documentation and billing review processes is key to both avoiding and responding to the common red flags on auditors’ radars, which often hinge on around patient eligibility and services related to their terminal condition, Bring indicated. Lisa Barker, chief medical officer at Gulfside Healthcare Services.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Healthcare faces growing demands, and nurses often manage the brunt of them. It’s common for nurses to have to juggle heavy workloads, complex patient needs, and time-intensive tasks every day they clock in. AI also supports nurses with decision-making by offering evidence-based recommendations tailored to individual patients.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The benefits of advance care planning for seniors are well-documented, but younger adults should also ensure they are prepared for a life-threatening health crisis, according to Dr. Joseph Shega, executive vice president and chief medical officer for VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHEM).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Tighter regulations are needed to ensure curb maleficence and skilled hospice care delivery, but ramping up compliance processes can be burdensome for staff, according to NVNA and Hospice CEO Renee McInnes, a registered nurse. Additional documentation processes can be a stressor on clinical staff retention in particular, she stated.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Continuous home care also requires that hospices have nursing staff available to provide this high-intensity, continuous, in-home care at all times,” Simmons told Hospice News in an email. Each day, a patient in CHC must receive a minimum of 8 hours of nursing care or nursing and aide care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Unified Program Integrity Contractor (UPIC) auditors are taking a sharper look at nursing home room-and-board for hospice patients. Regulators have been zeroing in around hospices’ data when it comes to patient interviews and Medicaid skilled nursing room-and-board payments, among other aspects of care delivery.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Compliance] is very challenging, because one mistake can create a big problem and that is a lot of money [if] somebody didn’t document things properly,” Montiel told Hospice News during the virtual summit. “We Sometimes we’re asking our clinicians to triple chart things.” Sometimes we’re asking our clinicians to triple chart things.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

On admission, a nurse might be going to a patient’s home, and she needs to review all of the patient’s medications and enter them accurately in the electronic health records (EHR). We’re getting some amazing results, with folks saying they’d had significant reduction in their documentation time,” she says.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2025

Fielding room-and-board reimbursement for hospice patients in nursing home settings represents a significant challenge plaguing hospices, according to Stephen Phenneger, president and CFO of St. Croix Hospice. The intricacies of the billing process can often create bottlenecks that stymie revenue flow, he stated.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Increased paid sick leave and heavy reliance on contract nurses have also threatened hospices ability to keep their heads above water. “An An area of expense that has continued to this day is the challenge with staffing, particularly with nursing,” Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake CEO Mike Brady told Hospice News in an email. “An

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Effective documentation of end-of-life choices has been associated with higher likelihood of hospice enrollment and lower incidence of intensive therapies, even during hospital stays, a 2019 JAMA Network study found. The latter he co-authored with therapeutic nurse practitioner Shelley Morhaim. . This is by nature an unplanned event.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Likewise, solutions that can reduce time spent on administrative tasks like documentation allows clinicians to “deliver care to the person, not a keyboard,” Wilson told Hospice News. Documentation time was a huge dissatisfier among clinicians. It takes away from providing direct patient care, support, and education,” Wilson said.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2025

When you’re in the market for a nursing job, a resume is a very important part of your job search toolkit. If you’d like to buff up your resume , here are five steps to make you a stronger contender in a competitive nursing job market. Instead, you can keep a separate document on hand listing your most important references.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Melton is also a registered nurse. Honing attention on how hospices can integrate technology to better support clinical documentation and patient admission processes may be a key to thriving, Melton indicated. COVID] helped us with innovation,” Protsman said. “We

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Established in 1992, the MPFS is a comprehensive payment system that accounts for the costs of delivering care in various settings, including skilled nursing facilities, physician offices and outpatient clinics. Takeaway : Therapists should still ensure timely communication and documentation for treatment plans to meet these new guidelines.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“They enrolled patients with long-term incurable diseases such as Alzheimers and dementia as well as patients with limited mental capacity who lived at group homes, nursing homes and in housing projects.” She lost her appetite, isolated herself and stopped sleeping because she feared she would never wake up, court document s show.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 27, 2025

Nursing is at a pivotal moment. With ongoing challenges like staffing shortages, high turnover, and burnout, healthcare organizations are rethinking how they deliver care to better support nurses and improve patient outcomes. Mentorship programs , virtual nursing, and robust tech support can help bridge this gap.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In nursing job interviews and other high-stakes career-related interactions, it’s your responsibility to make the case for why you’re an amazing nurse and the perfect fit for a particular position or healthcare organization. Every nurse or healthcare professional has a brand, whether they know it or not.

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Nurse Nacole

MARCH 4, 2025

When looking for a nurse practitioner job, you have to ensure you are looking for a position that suits your individual needs. Each position provides a different level of responsibility, yet each opportunity is available to nurse practitioners. I know, you want to start your first nurse practitioner job as soon as possible.

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Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2023

An unidentified hospice nurse and her patient were recently robbed at gunpoint in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Most of the documentation, it may occur in the [EMR] record describing the patient’s behavior as part of an assessment, but it doesn’t get documented administratively.” Last week, Sen.Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc) and Rep.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 9, 2025

I can’t tell you how many times hospice nurses reached out to me requesting help to get organized and manage their schedules. Managing hospice schedules and visits can feel like an endless puzzle , especially for new hospice nurses. Nothing frustrates a family quite like not knowing when their hospice nurse is coming.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) recent release of the Nursing Facility Individualized Compliance Program Guidance (ICPGs) reflects this alignment, emphasizing that integrating compliance with quality can enhance outcomes, reduce risk, and support value-based reimbursement. Teams should also use data and trends to demonstrate value.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 17, 2025

As Certified Nurses Day (March 19) celebrations begin, the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) is supporting nurses who invest in specialty certification with new research, consumer education, free nurse recognition tools, and a special promotion.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Chief Executive International Children’s Palliative Care Network and Chair of the Policy and Advocacy Committee for the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care. As a newly qualified staff nurse, working in a cancer unit , I first got involved in policy decision making. Professor Julia Downing.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 24, 2025

IV Nurse Day is celebrated every year on January 25 to recognize infusion nurses’ dedication to the healthcare system and unique skills beyond administering fluids. House of Representatives, and since then, many registered nurses have specialized in infusion therapy , with advocacy and continuing education growing in the field.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

The SIC MOC teaches these specialist teams a systematic approach to eliciting and documenting seriously ill patients’ values and goals.”. We have plans to expand the SIC MOC to other medical specialties, like cardiology, nephrology, and pulmonary/critical care medicine. An amount that surpassed the initial goal of raising the bar by 25%.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Then we have a home program where we have an advanced illness program in which our nurse practitioners go to the home of patients with advanced illness to assist them in symptom management and often assist them in changing their focus of care from back and forth to the hospital, to focus on being at home and even accessing hospice services.

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AJN Off the Charts

AUGUST 25, 2022

Just because you sprinkle a document with the word ‘equity’ does not mean it exists. Some school nurses have been barred from contacting their health departments; decisions are in most cases at the discretion of each school district. I did find one helpful document though, buried in the new guidelines.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

This is what makes clear documentation of payroll policies a key piece to wage compliance for hospices, he explained. Formality and documentation is the best way to avoid risk,” O’Day said. Underlying factors in most hospice wage cases are often a misunderstanding or misrepresentation of worker compensation terms, O’Day said.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 9, 2024

Deborah Dolan Hunt, PhD, RN, a nurse who is making a positive impact as an educator, writer, and scholar. Dr. Hunt says that many things bring passion to her work, and writing and nursing have always been her passions. She is a full professor at the Dr. Betty L.

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