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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. Yep, you heard me right.

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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%. In the last two years alone, more than 6/10 nurses have changed jobs. Yet it also ranks among the top 5 industries with the highest workforce shortages.

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Hospice Nurse, Educator Seeks to Change National Conversation About Death

Hospice News

Marianne Matzo is among a growing cadre of hospice professionals who are working to change the public conversation and perceptions of death. Matzo has been a registered nurse for 47 years and holds a Ph.D Hospice News sat down with Matzo to discuss Everyone Dies and her work to change how Americans encounter and perceive death.

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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. Hospice News: Share a bit about your background and the path that led you to your current role.

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HSPN Staffing Summit: Leveraging Technology for Person-Centered Care

Hospice News

This article is based on a virtual discussion with Kathleen Benton, President and CEO of Hospice Savannah. Hospice News: I’m now pleased to introduce our speaker. Dr. Kathleen Benton is the CEO at Hospice Savannah. This article is sponsored by CareXM. This discussion took place on October 3rd, 2024.

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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 And then Hospice Nurse Julie. That was a lot of fun. million followers.

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