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Integrating Social Determinants Into Palliative Care

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Dr. Darren Schulte, Dr. Tracy Romanello and Dr. Cameron Muir at the Hospice News ELEVATE event. In addition to palliative and hospice care, the health system provides hospital-based and outpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, assisted living and home health care. Dr. Tracy Romanello at the Hospice News ELEVATE event.

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Improving Hospice Chaplains’ Goals-of-Care Communication

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Hospice chaplains often lack formalized education in fostering goals-of-care discussions with patients and families, he said at the Annual Assembly of Hospice & Palliative Care , an event by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA).

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Using a Hospice Data ‘Toolbox’ to Tune Up Health Equity

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Developing trust, shared decision-making opportunities are vital parts of health equity improvement, according to Melissa Mazor, nurse scientist and assistant professor at Mount Sinais Icahn School of Medicine. Its so important to be working with your community and not just in your siloed research world.

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7 ‘Hidden Gem’ Hospice News Stories in 2024

Hospice News

Studies have found that more than half of individuals across the country have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. Hospice nurses with decades of experience have stated that training clinicians to provide goal concordant care involves an empathetic and unbiased approach.

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Norovirus, a Formidable and Underappreciated Hazard: What Nurses Need to Know

AJN Off the Charts

A symptomatic nurse or health care worker can unknowingly spread the virus to multiple patients through direct contact or via contaminated surfaces. Nursing considerations for prevention and response. Illness among those responsible for food handling and preparation can also be involved in transmission. mask as a barrier) as needed.

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Transitioning Pediatric Patients Into Adult Palliative Care Programs

Hospice News

Medically fragile and complex youths age in vastly different ways than their healthy peers depending on their conditions, according to Jeannette Meyer, palliative care nurse at UCLA.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

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Finally, we discuss Michelle Oddens study, which used a target trial emulation approach to investigate the effects of deprescribing antihypertensive medications on cognitive function in nursing home residents. I tried to call a nurse again, but she’s being a little I changed it to rich [laughter]. Eric 02:44 That’s right.