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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Eric 01:13 Yeah, you got to jump in. Take it over.

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Feeding Your Nursing Career

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Are you willing to feed your career as well as you feed your own body? How do you choose to optimize the nutrition that you feed to your body every day? Pay attention to what you're feeding your nursing career. Ask yourself the following questions: How do I feed my nursing career? What is my career asking of me?

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Pleasantly confused: Finding the balance in dementia care

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

While this story is a lighthearted example, it highlights a deeper issue faced by caregivers and healthcare professionals working with individuals with dementia: the delicate balance between respecting a persons emotional state and ensuring their safety and well-being. More like “awesomely clueless,” I thought.

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Rush Medical Center’s Caring for Caregivers Program

Hospice News

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. Due to these successes, the John A.

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Some Families May Not Access Hospice Without Caregiver Support

Hospice News

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. Among the participants in this new program is Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc. NASDAQ: AVAH).

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Maintaining Your Nursing Engine

Daily Nurse

” This part of you needs “feeding” with self-care, kindness, and compassion to be the best nurse (and person) you want to be. Self-care, rest, exercise, relaxation, leisure, hydration, time with family, social life, spirituality, and creativity are all ways to feed your metaphoric engine.

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Don’t Let Your Nursing Career Go Dry

Daily Nurse

Explore: Be certain to keep your finger on the pulse of what’s happening in the profession and the broader healthcare industry. Is your career feeding you as a person? So, pay attention and till that soil, and continue to reach for a career that feeds your soul and your nurse’s spirit.

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