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Hospice Nurses Take a Holistic Approach to Dementia Care

Nurse.com

This can only be achieved if care teams, including hospice nurses, know the latest evidence-based strategies for dementia care. But hospice nurses also recognize the challenges these patients and their families face every day and are ready to help ease their distress and fear. Recognizing challenges and risks.

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The Secret is Out: Hospice Recertification Made Easy!

Hospice Nurse Hero

Sometimes hospice patients live longer than six months. When this happens, you’ll want to use these tips to document the hospice recertification with ease. If you’ve worked long enough as a hospice nurse, then there’s a good chance you’ve had to chart a patient’s hospice recertification.

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Hospice Nurse, Educator Seeks to Change National Conversation About Death

Hospice News

I write these podcasts to tell people what I said to patients and families when I worked as a hospice nurse, or when I was a palliative care consultant, or when I taught my nursing students or my physician students. I don’t want to see in my feed that everyone dies. Remember you’re human.

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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

Regardless of which sector of the industry you work in, industry-wide workforce shortages are putting a financial strain on providers and care staff alike; costing $2,600 per caregiver in turnover costs, $19,500 per scheduler, and $88,000 per hospice nurse. Create work-life balance with flexible but consistent work schedules.

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Voices: Erin Harris, PharmD, Senior Vice President, Patient Care Operations, Enclara Pharmacia

Hospice News

In this Voices interview, Hospice News speaks with Enclaras SVP of Patient Care Operations, Erin Harris, PharmD, about how Enclaras contact center supports hospice nurses in delivering exceptional care. Every call or message creates a case that feeds into our newly developed dashboard. Can you share some examples?

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Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow

GeriPal

We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 And then Hospice Nurse Julie. Julie McFadden goes by Hospice Nurse Julie. I’m going to start off with Nurse Julie, Hospice Nurse Julie, I think that’s your full title on TikTok.

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HSPN Staffing Summit: Leveraging Technology for Person-Centered Care

Hospice News

Daniel eventually passed away about eight years ago, but not before he was placed on that trach and peritoneal dialysis and feeding tube and many other interventions and, all the while, not really focusing on what he wanted as a good quality of life. We just moved on to the next thing without a serious discussion about wishes.

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