Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Everyone loves a good Emmy story. My youngest child is clever, fiercely independent, and always chasing her next adventure. Recently, her weekend plans collided with our yearly Thanksmas holiday party, a cherished tradition Ive hosted for a decade. Her dilemma? The last show jumping horse show of the year, complete with a holiday theme, dressed-up ponies and coordinated costumes with friends.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Several executives are stepping into new roles at hospice organizations across the country as the new year draws near. National Alliance for Care at Home Announces New COO National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) recently announced Sherl Brand as its new COO, who will ascend into the role in January. Brand was previously senior vice president of hospice and palliative care at New York-based VNS Health, holding a similar role at CareCentrix prior to that.

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Together for Short Lives

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Following our successful campaign, we warmly welcome the Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streetings, decision to increase NHS England funding for childrens hospices to 26 million in 2025/26. The 100 million fund for both childrens and adult hospices in England announced by the UK Government also means many seriously ill children and their families […] The post Together for Short Lives welcomes Childrens Hospice Grant boost appeared first on Together for Short Lives.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Providing maintenance for your car may seem very unlike the maintenance of your nursing career, but these two important processes may have more in common than you think. Both your car and your nursing career are vehicles for getting you from one place to another, and a car in disrepair can’t be as reliable or take you as far as one that’s well-maintained and in tip-top shape.

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Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Dinner can be a very stressful time for many families. Not only is it the decision as to what to make, but also, is it easy and healthy, and will my family eat it? Nurses feel this burden, too, especially after working a 12-hour shift or multiple shifts in a row. The desire to nourish their family is still there, but the energy to make an entire meal is unavailable.

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Nurse Nacole

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing Other less common causes for cardiac arrest include electrolyte disturbances, drug toxicity and electrocution. The most common metabolic cause of cardiac arrest is hyperkalemia, which is usually seen in patients with renal failure.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve talked a lot before about integrating psychiatry into palliative care (see here and here for two examples). Still, we havent talked about integrating palliative care into psychiatry or in the care of those with severe mental illness. On this weeks podcast, we talk with two experts about palliative psychiatry. We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a

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