Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice CEO Retires Lockport, N.Y.-based based Niagara Hospice will soon have a new president and CEO with the upcoming retirement of John Lomeo, who has led the organization since 2000. Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services.

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HPNA podcast

JANUARY 15, 2024

In this episode, we welcome Amisha Parekh de Campos, PhD, MPH, RN, CHPN to the show where she speaks on the research that she is conducting surrounding people of color in end-of-life care. Joseph in 2009; additional certifications include hospice and palliative care (CHPN).

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Hospice 101

MAY 24, 2020

Memorial Day is also a good reminder for hospice team members to take the time to listen to, and allow, your patients to share their military service experiences, as a part of their life review. When I first started in hospice nursing eight years ago, I didn’t know much about the military service.

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HPNA podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

About Lynn: Dr. Reinke is the Claire Dumke Ryberg, RN, Presidential Endowed Chair for Palliative and End of Life Care at the University of Utah, College of Nursing. About Masako: Dr. Mayahara is a clinical expert in pain management in hospice and palliative care.

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HPNA podcast

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This episode of HPNA Podcast Corner welcomes guest Mary Kenney to share with us insight into a day in the life of a certified hospice aid. . . Mary is a certified hospice and palliative care nurse aid who has cared for those with life-limiting illnesses for over 20 years. . . About Mary .

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The same study also cited a bereaved families survey that found “African Americans were less satisfied with the quality of end-of-life care.” Minority NPs can influence strategic decisions that ensure care plans are more relevant and positive for a broader range of patients.

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Hospice News

MAY 28, 2024

Honing clinical scheduling and onboarding models is key to sustaining the hospice nurse 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.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

Traumatized and abused hospice patients and providers often experience an array of lingering physical, emotional and psychological effects that can fall into a silent abyss of unmet needs. They may be uncomfortable talking about it with their provider care team.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2022

Stakeholders in the hospice space are optimistic that Congress will pass the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA). But the intention is that when things do move slowly, it’s to ensure that we do them right,” Hoover told Hospice News.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! This is Eric Widera. Justin 01:59 Absolutely.

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Hospice 101

JUNE 19, 2020

Hospice CNAs (who are known in the hospice world as HHAs or Home Health Aides) are incredibly special individuals and members of the hospice team who provide gentle, compassionate, end-of-life cares for hospice patients. June 18-24, 2020 is the week we celebrate Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs).

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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 ). Eric 11:52 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. It wasn’t just any nurse.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

There is often lack of opportunity for young people to engage in meaningful discussion about dignity and legacy leaving and end of life care in a structured way (Rodriguez et al., Integrative Therapies in Palliative Care, 5(1), doi:10.21926/obm.icm.2001012 2012) Dignity Therapy: Final words for final days.

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