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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. Some of these skills include transferring patients from bed to wheelchair, using catheters, and giving injections.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not. Barbara: Yay.

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Caring for Someone with ALS

Traditions Health

Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. From daily living activities such as shopping, cooking, and cleaning, to more demanding activities such as bathing or feeding, caring for an ALS patient can take a toll.

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Why not try one of these jobs for nursing students?

The Nurse Break

Jobs for nursing students…As exciting as the big wide world of the healthcare industry is as a nursing student, it can also be daunting. This includes but is not limited to, showering, toileting, dressing and feeding to ensure quality care is delivered. Why not get some hands-on experience in the field while you’re studying?

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Paying Your Care Staff More Won’t Keep Them Around Longer—Here are 4 Solutions that Will, According to the Experts

Home Care Pulse

To make matters worse, hospices have lost social worker employees at a faster rate than any other health care setting in the care continuum as turnover rises to 27%. Our workers want flexibility, but they also want consistency,” said Dr. Moss. Yet it also ranks among the top 5 industries with the highest workforce shortages.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. You’re talking about a paradigm shift in healthcare. And I think that was partly. She put her back out.

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HSPN Staffing Summit: Leveraging Technology for Person-Centered Care

Hospice News

Many of us, those of us who lead healthcare communities and organizations, are in trouble trying to make sure our patients have their needs met. Frankly, the majority of the time, it was on the side of the healthcare delivery team, not that patient and family, that we weren’t listening. We weren’t saying the right things.

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