Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

Some of the issues that frequently occur include increased risk of feeding tube use, intensive care unit stays, late enrollment in hospice, and receipt of care that is not concordant with the resident’s wishes, the study indicated.

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Traditions Health

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But it’s also challenging to manage all the ways you need to meet their needs, from bathing, dressing, and feeding them to managing their medications, and doctors’ appointments. Taking care of a loved one who needs assistance due to an illness, injury, aging, or declining health can be rewarding. That’s why caregiver burnout is very common.

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

Increasing Caregiver Duties Family caregivers are also required to perform increasingly more complicated medical tasks, such as administering medications via IV, feeding by a tube and managing pain.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

The program includes training in medical caregiving aspects such as oxygen application, tube feeding, tracheostomy care and nonmedical needs such meal preparation, bathing, housekeeping and incontinence care. Family members receive online or in-person training from participating providers.

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Hope Hospice

JANUARY 11, 2022

Feeding elderly patients can sometimes be challenging. Let’s review some best practices for feeding elderly patients. This might mean feeding young children in the home at a different time or location, so that you avoid distractions and too much noise. Tips for Assisted Feeding. First, create a calm environment.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Our volunteers can help with a pet’s daily needs – things like walking, feeding, and cleaning litter boxes. “In our quest to provide the absolute highest level of patient care, we saw the need to fully incorporate pets into our care model,” Crawford said in a blog post. We can get pets to grooming and veterinary appointments.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

How are you feeding your career, and is it getting the macronutrients it needs to thrive? Not Rocket Science Feeding your nursing career an excellent nutritious diet may not be rocket science, but it doesn’t always come naturally. Just like your body, your nursing career needs good nutrition.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The decision by Schiavo’s husband to suspend artificial life support and feeding for his wife, who was in an irreversible persistent vegetative state, prompted a seven-year legal battle with her parents. In the backdrop of these personal events, hangs the Schiavo case.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Oh, thanks.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Veteran, recovering from a chronic illness, was heavily dependent on medical supporta feeding tube, dialysis, and an inability to speak made him completely reliant on the nurses around him. Never Overlooking a Step Straw stepped into his patient’s isolation room, prepared for what should have been a standard evaluation.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Because, if anybody hasn’t seen it, you’ve got a great Twitter feed that gives tons of pearls on palliative care and a lot on communication. Speaking of pearls, should we move to Shunichi’s Twitter feed? Alex: Shunichi, your Twitter feed is like haiku. What motivated you to dive into this? Don’t use that.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Its supportive services include assistance with daily activities, housekeeping, meal preparation, feeding and transportation. A rising number of home health and hospice providers are eying deals in the non-medical home care space, particularly as they gained access to more diverse payment sources in recent times.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

They have so many more insights using technology from telehealth and telemedicine that’s feeding into that mobile device, which is so powerful for them. Mobile technology is not just used for documentation, but it’s really an integrated workflow for the caregiver at the bedside.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Today, many palliative programs are supported by philanthropic donations or treated as a loss leader that can feed referrals to other services like hospice care. Fee-for-service Medicare, for example, only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services and does not cover the full range of interdisciplinary palliative care.

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AJN Off the Charts

JUNE 24, 2024

In “Reducing Lung Injury from Blind Insertion of Small-Bore Feeding Tubes,” the authors describe a quality improvement project involving the implementation of capnography-guided small-bore feeding tube placement to reduce complications and the incidence of lung perforation in adult patients. (CE CE credit is available.)

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Today's Caregiver

JULY 6, 2022

As a caregiver you may provide your loved-one personal care such as feeding, bathing, cleaning, transportation, and exercise. You also may have medical, financial, and legal responsibilities. You may even organize social and recreational activities

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AJN Off the Charts

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Various types of water can be used to flush enteral feeding tubes, but which type of water is best supported by evidence? (Open Access) “Changes in Sleep Quality After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review” : The authors examine the relationship between sleep quality and pain following this procedure.

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The Heart of Hospice

JULY 29, 2022

We’re talking about comfort feedings today, how they work and the benefits they hold for hospice patients and their caregivers. Comfort feeding, (also pleasure feeding, is the practice of feeding the patient only what the patient likes and wants. It might not be considered particularly healthy.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 13, 2025

Speech therapists also help manage swallowing or feeding issues to prevent complications like aspiration. Simplifying language, using visual aids and encouraging non-verbal communication can help reduce frustration and improve connection. A critical challenge in dementia care is deciding when and how to tell a person about their diagnosis.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. Often in families you always have one member that wants to do every possible thing. But they don’t always understand what that means. It’s just postponing it.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 25, 2023

What are the benefits of breastfeeding/ vs. formula feeding? During these times, nurses can help with initial latches when the baby is learning to feed, help families notice the signs their infant is hungry, and show how important frequent lactation is to milk supply.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 8, 2023

In light of all of this, when the going gets tough, and you feel beaten down and lacking your usual energy and passion for nursing, where do you turn for inspiration that feeds your nurse’s spirit and reanimates your love of the profession and the career you’ve worked so hard to cultivate?

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

AUGUST 23, 2017

This episode features Suresh Kumar Chhetri (Preston MND Care and Research Centre, Department of Neurology, Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, UK) who describes a study which aimed to explore patients' experience of enteral feeding and its impact on quality of life.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Yet, at the same time, it can also feed our sense of pride and purpose—and, perhaps, aspirations for more. But we can also consider how work doesn’t just pay the bills and put food on the table but also how it feeds us on the inside. It is true that, at specific points in life, work serves a particular purpose.

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Adobe Hospice & Home Health

JUNE 15, 2024

A Delicate Dance: Discussing Food and Comfort at the End of Life For referral partners transitioning patients to hospice care, a common source of tension arises: the practice of regular solid food feeding.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This is somebody who can help with being the eyes and ears in the home — delivering activities of daily living, supporting people who are really unable to do basic things like bathing, dressing or feeding. How did the discussions that CTAC facilitated proceed? What were some of the biggest concerns and challenges that came to the forefront?

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Elaine Mansfield

JUNE 18, 2024

I learn to feed them cooked egg yolk. Mama feed me. I try feeding them with a tweezer, thinking sanitation. What does a human know about feeding a Baby Blue? (Wouldn’t you?) I learn Diatomaceous earth kills ants fastest. It won’t hurt the babies. There isn’t much time. I want them to live. Mama save me. Mama protect me.

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Elaine Mansfield

JULY 4, 2023

He feeds his lady, helps build the nest, incubates eggs, and watches over his family. When the eggs hatch, he’ll produce “ crop milk ” or “pigeon milk” in his esophagus and help feed the kids. She returns by late afternoon and incubates until the following morning. They never leave the nest untended. What a guy!

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

They want more than just doing a job, but really finding something that they feel can feed them and keep them from burning out and actually bring them joy in their practice and deep fulfillment. But thinking about finding meaning and purpose in your work has brought a lot of really thoughtful people into applying for our fellowship.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2025

Being asked to supply references is a given, and this will generally be requested as part of an online application.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 8, 2022

They feed us, and I think we need to value them more and recognize their worth, and they should be treated with dignity and given the same benefits that sometimes we take for granted. Mother Teresa said, ‘If you can’t feed 100 people, then feed just one,’” she says. They are the backbone of this country and the globe.

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Hospice News

MAY 11, 2022

In turn, the personal care segment can feed referrals to home health and ultimately hospice when appropriate. . Adding on clinical services created new revenue streams, and each business line can foster growth for the other two. Many patients receiving clinical services will continue to need personal care, for instance.

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Elaine Mansfield

AUGUST 1, 2023

That morning, I saw a parent feed the nesting baby by regurgitating half-digested seeds into the baby’s eager mouth. The feeding was a wrestling match as the baby stretched its beak wide and grabbed Mama’s mouth. As the babies grew, Papa strutted on the roof, and the feedings grew more frequent and vigorous.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

How do you create a control tower or a population health team as many of the IDNs would call it, that oversees that group?

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JULY 25, 2022

Especially at a young age, prior to professional training or advanced education, work is often a utilitarian exercise, while it can also feed our sense of pride and purpose and, perhaps, aspirations for more. Water and feed your nursing career with conscious creativity and attention, and it will feed you from the inside out.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

And kind of recognizing that that’s what our patients are talking about and that their symptom issues, whether it’s pain or nausea or shortness of breath, whatever it is, is really like the tip of the iceberg, that below the surface you’ve got all these other dimensions that are feeding that symptom, like the social, the financial, (..)

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