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Lawmakers in Connecticut and Vermont have recently introduced legislation aimed at protecting hospice and homehealth workers. Some stakeholders worry that the laws may impact care continuity among vulnerable homebound terminally ill populations lacking end-of-life support.
In honor of this month, we express our appreciation for homehealthnurses, hospicenurses, and nurses who work in the skilled nursing facilities that partner with us as hospice and homehealth providers.
Honing clinical scheduling and onboarding models is key to sustaining the hospicenurse workforce as demand for these clinicians rises and wages lag compared to those in other settings. Much of that was because new nursing students who come into the industry are often ill-equipped to understand the big picture.
Kaishauna Guidry, a former teacher turned hospice physician, continues to leverage her background in education to help terminally ill patients find the care they need. Few businesses have to work as hard as hospices to dispel myths and misconceptions about their practices. I thought it was withholding care.
Um, and, uh, you know, it was just a little bit more of a holistic care that I could practice versus sort of the rinse and repeat of acute care where they’re in and they’re gone and in and gone. So, um, really enjoyed being a visiting homehealthnurse for years. Infection control, end of lifecare.
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