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How Hospices Are Innovating Clinical Onboarding

Hospice News

Each trainee receives exposure to different interdisciplinary aspects of hospice, including skills labs in end-of-life nursing and social work, communications, EMR systems and ongoing educational courses around the philosophy of hospice care, according to Garcia.

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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer. Palliative care could prevent many ED visits. were made by patients with cancer.

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Why Spiritual Care?

AJN Off the Charts

The immense experiences of suffering, grief, loneliness, and burnout among nurses today call for a reexamination not only of our care delivery systems, but also of the personal frameworks through which we approach our nursing practice. Palliative nursing and ‘a deep examination of priorities.’

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Ep. 32: An Inside Look: APRN Billing in Hospice & Palliative Care

HPNA podcast

ET 1 NCPD Register Today About the Speakers: Moderator: Mansara Hassan, MSN, APRN, AGNP-C Featuring: Christopher Acevedo, CHC Mansara Hassan, MSN, APRN, AGNP-C, is a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in Dallas, TX. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Ep. 30 - Caring for Underserved Patients in Rural and Urban Settings

HPNA podcast

In this episode, we welcome Tracy Fasolino and Mansara Hassan, board members from the Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) and the Hospice & Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF), Moderated by Lynn Reinke, this episode discusses the considerations surrounding caring for underserved patients in rural and urban settings.

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In the Nick of Time: Advance Care Planning in the ICU

AJN Off the Charts

I also work as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center where I see the real-life aspects of advance care planning. In all my years of nursing, this was about as optimal an advance care planning encounter as possible. Marian Grant, palliative care NP. I first saw the patient the next morning.

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NHPCO Welcomes Incoming Vice President of Quality

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Gupta is a board-certified nurse practitioner with more than 20 years of health care leadership experience spanning quality improvement, health care operations, executive leadership, acute care, ageing, complex disease management, clinical services, and implementation of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs.