Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2023

Safety is an ever present concern for hospice providers in any setting, but the home may be the toughest for employers to help staff navigate. An unidentified hospice nurse and her patient were recently robbed at gunpoint in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Some of them just want to forget about it and not relive the trauma.

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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

APRIL 24, 2023

The shift does present challenges, however. This standalone care solution was created by palliative care professionals, meaning they were able to apply their experience toward the software development — with Rose, as a certified hospice and palliative care nurse — leading the charge.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

For Enclara, predicting disease progression presents several opportunities to help our hospice partners improve quality while managing expenses. One method is simply giving nurses a nudge when they are about to make an ordering decision. There is a myriad of opportunities to positively impact patient care and the nurse experience.

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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. Is the expectation that I present every patient to the physician?

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AJN Off the Charts

MAY 11, 2023

The nursing shortage continues, with no end in sight. Working nurses are suffering burnout from caring for so many patients that they know nursing care is being missed. Nurse educators do our best, but we know that we are sending new graduates into the fire. Nurse staffing and patient outcomes.

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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

JULY 14, 2023

We all depend on technology to manage our daily responsibilities at home and work to make purchases, open doors, send messages, attend meetings virtually, and more, but did you know you can also use technology to advance your nursing career ? Where are you documenting that? Your Gmail™ account also gives you access to Google Drive ™.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

Nevertheless, longer stays continue to trigger regulatory audits and additional documentation requests. Patients in the Medicare program could benefit significantly if hospice as an option for care was presented fully to patients earlier on for those who are in that large group of people whose length of stay is 10 days or less.”

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Nurse.com

MAY 16, 2023

Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN, a school nurse in Camden, New Jersey, and an adjunct faculty member at Rutgers University School of Nursing in Newark, knows firsthand the impact that gun violence can have on families. While Cogan’s niece survived the horrific mass shooting, fourteen students and three teachers died that day.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Nurse practitioners (NPs) have a great deal of responsibility regarding patient care, and as the healthcare landscape evolves, so do the daily risks NPs face. Nurse practitioner malpractice data can be used to inform and address areas of clinical improvement as well as help to improve the quality of care and patient safety. since 2017.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 18, 2023

According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), clear and accurate documentation is essential for safe, quality, evidence-based nursing practice. This applies across settings, for registered and advanced practice nurses alike, according to ANA’s Principles for Nursing Documentation Guidance for Registered Nurses.

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AJN Off the Charts

JANUARY 16, 2024

Three considerations about nursing and AI. These three considerations are elaborated below: Nursing is the most trusted profession in the United States. Since the early conception of nursing as a profession, nurses have been and still are the ones standing by every patient/client 24/7. This leads me to my third thought.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. I’m just stunned even writing that! Welcome, Corita and Kate and Tom. Kate: Thank you. Tom: Thank you. Alex: No, we don’t.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There’s not even a place in most medical records to document that. And if we don’t make that happen, those patients end up in the hospital or they end up in nursing homes. I was a hospice manager, and I had the philosophy, first, that social workers are a lot cheaper than nurses. It’s a beautiful document.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary In todays podcast we were delighted to be joined by the presenters of the top scientific abstracts for the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine ( AAHPM ) and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Nurses Association ( HPNA ). 75% vs 61% advance directive completion)?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story. Bennett, C.R.,

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The agency will be contacting individual hospices to request information on Medicare claims and associated documentation. Hospices may benefit from practices like internal audits to ensure their documents are consistent with their degree of compliance. The average bonus for registered nurses was $6,330. .

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

Ashwin Kotwal, assistant professor at the University California San Francisco, said during the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association assembly. Victims battle an ever-present landmine of potential triggers as they reach the end of their lives. of these workers, respectively.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I have done everything from bedside nursing to administration, and my last eight years at the agency level were spent as a quality assurance coordinator. The ability to present customer satisfaction scores, attention to HQRP measures and a means for providing quality hospice services in a cost-effective manner directly impacts those plans.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 7, 2023

While the average person probably thinks that nurses working via telehealth is something new that came about during COVID, that couldn’t be further from the truth. “I Georgia Reiner, MS CPHRM, a Risk Analyst at the Nurses Service Organization (NSO), agrees that telehealth has been around for a while. The answer is yes and no.

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Diversity Nursing

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Becoming a Nurse is a rewarding yet challenging career path. While Nursing school does its best to prepare you, there are many things you can only learn through experience. If you’re considering a career in Nursing or are just starting out, here are some things I wish I had known before stepping into this field.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 24, 2023

According to “The 2022 Nurse Practitioner Professional Liability Exposure Claim Report: 5th Edition,” claims again nurse practitioners (NPs) are rising. To find out what this means and what NPs can do about it, Daily Nurse interviewed Georgia Reiner, MS, CPHRM, Risk Analyst, Nurses Service Organization (NSO).

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Missouri set a very high bar, explicit written documentation that applies to this specific circumstance, which the Cruzan’s eventually cleared. But legislation can change, clinical practice can change, but I think what we’ll talk about today is how we’re now opening the door to conversations rather than legal rules and documents.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Patients value stability; caregivers can foster this by maintaining regular routines and being present for important milestones. Regular follow-ups with medical professionals and documenting changes in the patients condition ensure youre meeting their evolving needs effectively.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 29, 2024

I quickly found myself drifting into boredom, my hand automatically reaching for a pen to take notes from the PowerPoints each teacher presented. Just as vocabulary and grammar are foundational for students, precise language and documentation are crucial for us in demonstrating the skilled level of service we provide.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 18, 2024

When we think of a nurse, we absolutely and automatically think of a nurse who works in some capacity as a clinician. We may also think of a nurse executive or administrator, writer, informaticist, case manager, health and wellness coach, or many other roles that 21st-century nurses commonly fill.

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Your nursing career has a unique narrative that propels it, and your resume is one place where it’s essential to get the story right if you want prospective employers to notice you or other opportunities to come to fruition. That stress is entirely avoidable if they only look over their resume once a year. Probably not.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It is generally agreed that a vast majority of nurses choose the profession because they find fulfillment in being of service to others in their time of need. Compassion, empathy, and kindness are hallmarks of what “nursesness” is all about, and even members of the general public are likely to associate those characteristics with nurses.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hospice documentation is tedious and time-consuming. I’ve outlined simple tips to help you master the fundamentals of hospice documentation. Do you spend hours documenting at home? Worse yet, do you find yourself frustrated when “corporate” only seems to care about timely documentation? Documentation is king!!

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 25, 2023

ChatGPT has many questioning its role in healthcare, specifically its use in nursing education. For example, in geriatric nursing care, AI is used for monitoring patients with dementia, detecting falls, facilitating communication, and managing medications, enhancing the overall quality and efficiency of care for older adults.

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Recently, nurses have navigated their careers through a global pandemic, a travel nursing boom, supply issues, and continue to face an ongoing nursing shortage. Nearly 30% of nurses considered leaving the profession in 2021, compared to 11% in 2020, according to Nurse.com’s 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Heather.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. Just there’s a lot of intense decision making that happens after patients are discharged to skilled nursing facilities.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

This weeks’ blog focuses on Leadership Development and is by Katarzyna (Kasia) Czabanowska, Prof, Dr @KatarzynaCzaba1, Emily McWhirter, PhD, RN @McWhirterEmily and Barbara Stilwell, PhD, MSC, FRCN, FAAN @bathebrit Nurses and midwives make up 50% of the world’s healthcare workforce but remain severely under-represented in senior leadership 1.

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AJN Off the Charts

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A series of surprising developments including the release of generative chatbots like ChatGPT has rapidly increased awareness of the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), sending shock waves through the research, academic, and nursing education community.

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