Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

End-of-life doulas can help hospices’ efforts to improve health equity in hard to reach settings while also improving quality in the last days of life. The quantity and quality of patient visits during the last days of life is an important quality measure for hospice providers. Having doulas at the bedside during the last days of life has positively affected hospice quality outcomes, including those among underserved populations, according to Diane Sancilio, director of counseling and support at

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HopeHealth

APRIL 30, 2024

Joan’s mother, father and dear friend passed away on HopeHealth’s care. With each experience, she discovered another aspect of hospice — and another way she wanted to pay it forward. The post Daughter, friend, “caregiver to the caregiver”: The path & passion of a hospice volunteer appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

Given the significance of family caregivers in hospice care, providers can benefit from having tools to assess whether or not they are experiencing burnout. Burnout is a state of complete mental, physical and emotional exhaustion. Symptoms of burnout can include depression, compassion fatigue, stress and anxiety, and apathy, both in general life and towards work tasks, according to the Mayo Clinic.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 30, 2024

Dorma Liz Davila (Lizzy) RN, BSN, CPN, EMT never expected a quick volunteer weekend as a camp nurse to provide a transformative experience, but it did. And now she wants other nurses to know how helping kids at Paul Newman’s The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp can breathe new life into their nursing careers. The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp is an organization that provides what the organization calls “a different kind of healing” to thousands of seriously ill children and family mem

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Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics. While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they need communication tools that can keep up with their fast-paced lives.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 30, 2024

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses ( AACN ) has published AACN Standards for Appropriate Staffing in Adult Critical Care , the specialty’s first action-oriented staffing standards. Appropriate staffing has long been one of the “AACN Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments” (HWE standards), first published in 2005.

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Together for Short Lives

APRIL 30, 2024

In her final blog update, Helena shares her time with the teams in Toronto and her final reflections. To follow along with her earlier blogs head to: Blog 1 Blog 2 Blog 3 Blog 4 Blog 5 Complex Care for Kids Ontario (CCKO) is a provincial strategy to improve access across Ontario to integrated medical […] The post Time with Complex care programme team in Toronto appeared first on Together for Short Lives.

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Palliverse

APRIL 30, 2024

Photo by Taras Chernus on Unsplash Where do you think you are at? I’m so tired, it’s no good. What did the hospital doctors tell you? It was always bad news. Every time they came in there was more bad news. One thing, after the other. It would be hard to keep up. Yeah, it was. Did they talk about how much time you had left? No. They wouldn’t tell us.

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