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Hospice Nurses Take a Holistic Approach to Dementia Care

Nurse.com

Documenting care preferences in advance — Planning care early in the disease process is a meaningful way to identify, document, and communicate a patient’s goals. Hospice nurses can also document issues of personal importance.

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Neonatal Nursing: Discover the Challenges and Compassion Behind Caring for the Tiniest Patients

Minority Nurse

Depending on the severity of care, neonatal nurses can work with a spectrum of newborns who require different amounts of care, from premature newborns (premies) who are moderately ill to high-risk infants who require incubators, ventilators, surgery, or other types of critical care.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. OK, I’ll step off my soap box.

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Care Across the Health Care Continuum: Communication and Education are the Keys to Success

Home Care Pulse

Providing care in the right place, at the right time, and by the right provider can only be possible by working together across the health care continuum—and it starts with clear communication and education. She could no longer feed herself, much less cook, and was dependent on others for everything.