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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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The Ostomy MacGyver: How Linda Concepcion is Healing Patients (and Spirits) One Creative Solution at a Time

Minority Nurse

Concepcions day starts by scrolling through patient wound photossomething she likens to checking her social media feed (though definitely not for the faint of heart). Nurses are the backbone of healthcare, she says. The Behind-the-Scenes Magic If you think wound care is all bedside dressings, think again.

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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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Rooted in wellness: A therapist’s role in Medicare’s nutritional focus

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

OTs support self-feeding and fine motor function. They provide strategies and diet modifications to prevent aspiration, train caregivers on safe feeding practices, and advocate for resident preferences to enhance both safety and satisfaction. They understand sarcopenia doesnt just affect fall risks its swallowing muscles too.

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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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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. He doesn’t prescribe thickened liquids, because he just puts in feeding tubes in everybody.

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