Hope Hospice

JULY 23, 2020

There’s no one-size-fits-all method to combat feeding challenges, so try out a few of these methods to see what might work for your patient. Hope Hospice offers a free education series for family caregivers. The live webinars cover a variety of topics, including four presentations specifically on aspects of dementia care.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Will/Desire to Create a Unique Career Whether you're interested in trauma, nursing research, the pharmaceutical industry, NICU, hospice, or entrepreneurship, having the will or desire to create and curate your own career is central to the process. What aspects of work feed my emotional and spiritual lives? So, let's break it down.

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Nurse.com

MAY 20, 2022

I spent three of those 10 years working as a staff nurse in med-surg and perioperative units and the rest in various positions in home health and hospice. ” Opportunities to widen and deepen my empathy presented themselves during my time as a corrections nurse at the jail. Kelly Langford, RN. “You have helped me so much.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The film is based on director Laura Chinn’s personal experience as her brother Max received inpatient care at the Suncoast Hospice Care Center, an actual facility operated by the Florida-based nonprofit Empath Health. The post ‘Suncoast’ Film Points a Lens at Hospice Families’ Experience appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hospice patients are often concerned about the future wellness of their pets as they near the end of life, and some providers are working with organizations that help address those needs as an ancillary service. Our volunteers can help with a pet’s daily needs – things like walking, feeding, and cleaning litter boxes.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET?

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! And love that Jim Croce choice. Whats in a name? Ive got a name.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2025

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. Can you share some examples?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. . Summary Transcript Summary. Transcript.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Oh, thanks.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Connelly argues that end-of-life care has become “over-medicalized” and that more patients would choose hospice and palliative care if they had a better understanding both of those services and the alternatives. Hospice News spoke with Connelly about the importance of death literacy and how to pursue it. It’s just postponing it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Eric 02:37 Feeding the beast, Matthew, feeding the beast [laughing] Alex 02:41 All right, here’s a little bit. I think at the age of 91, a patient should have a say, really, in terms of, hey, I can present you with some of the reasons I think we should make a switch, but what do you think? It’s awesome.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A nursing career needs a great deal of feeding and watering; there are so many moving parts, and there's a lot to do in order to keep them all happy and flourishing. If your original motivations for entering the profession no longer hold true for you in the present, some soul searching may reveal where you need to look next for inspiration.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. And for a few reasons, which I’m sure we’ll get into, I think it’s probably most effective upstream of the acute care setting, more in the nursing home setting or for patients who are not presenting in the hospital or emergency department setting. Welcome, Abby.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. I’m going to start off with Lexy. Lexy: I think chaplains should be required in many more settings.

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Hospice Advantage Solutions

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It is normal to believe that fluid intake can improve overall health and well-being, but this is not always true in a hospice patient. It is often the task of the hospice team to educate patients and families about this process. If a tumor is present, the edematous layer may shrink.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If You or Your Loved One Is In Hospice Care, Be Proactive. If you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are receiving hospice care, you may want to consider creating a living will. If you are receiving hospice care, your hospice team can help you create a living will if you desire. If so, for how long?

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. And so the key there is, of course these were prospectively measured where patients were called every month from 1998 through actually the present day among those who are still alive.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 18, 2022

This is especially true in healthcare settings like home health and hospice when care is being provided in the patient’s home. For instance, as a hospice nurse, you spend a significant amount of time with your patients and their families. For instance, you may need to touch, feed, or even bathe a patient.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 19, 2023

Candida auris has been classified as a nosocomial infection , meaning it is a condition most commonly acquired in a hospital or facility setting, and was not present in the person prior to their admission. Who is at risk to contract Candida auris?

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Palliverse

MAY 7, 2022

Dad wanted to take her home, he knew that he could feed her food she would like, and that home rehabilitation could be considered. Dad was not keen on having Hospice involved yet, as he wanted to protect Mum from the knowledge that she had worsening cancer. Despite Dad feeding her five small meals a day, she was shrinking fast.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 19, 2021

In this episode of Living With Hospice, Mitch addresses the many facets of 'closing the books' at the end of our lives, including practical planning, reviewing the bucket list and the often uncomfortable topic of saying goodbye. Also part of closing the books, for someone who's dying, is to say goodbye. This is not so much in our culture.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2022

Be present. However, after many years of working as a hospice nurse and caring for patients with terminal illnesses, I’ve learned some skills that have made these interactions less intimidating. Listen and be present in the moment. Show Up and Be Present! Try these Simple Ways of Being Present. Listen more.

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Living With Hospice

AUGUST 26, 2020

Transcript: Welcome back to another episode of Living With Hospice. I am a very experienced person who's been a caregiver and a longtime hospice volunteer. I've been on the inside and on the outside of hospice. You know, we're just present. And in my experience, they're very few in hospice care either.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And my main focus, which I loved in that role was to help develop professional home health and hospice aids. So I’ve always had deep respect for, for the knowledge and skills they bring, whether it’s at the hospital or nursing home, home health, hospice, home care. Amanda Sternklar ( 03:24 ): That’s amazing.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

It certainly hospice was something that was known about, but in terms of training or preparation, that really didn’t exist. But, but there is not one guideline within the ID or HIV world about when to stop antiretroviral therapy, even, even in the hospice literature. Peter 14:48 So it’s completely shifted.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Sydney 06:45 So I’ve been Developing and running palliative care and hospice programs at Hopkins for about 25 years. So intubation, cpr, feeding tubes. Eric 19:31 So it was interventions like feeding tubes, mechanical ventilation, dialysis at the very end of life. Eric 06:38 Let me ask you this.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And every time I do palliative care and I think I want to jump ahead, like somebody says, “Oh, so and so wants hospice. Can you just talk to him about hospice?” ” Inevitably, it’s always when I jump to hospice, they’re all, “Wait, what’s hospice? Get the hospice referral.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Is hospice appropriate for people with serious mental illness (and does hospice have the skills to meet their needs?) Dani 15:02 Speaking to the fact that we are talking about such a massive array of illnesses, of presentations of symptom severity, and trying to speak in generalizations. I think it’s very present in maid.

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