AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

Many have persistent unmet care needs leading to high costs with questionable quality outcomes (Salzberg, et al. Health System Performance for the High-Need Patient: A Look at Access to Care and Patient Care Experiences. Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2025

To tie this with what residents, fellows and resident physicians in palliative care and hospice experience, that training is incredibly difficult, Anderson told Palliative Care News. That can unfortunately get in the way of learning to provide the best care to patients.

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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. I oversee Patient Care Operations, which is the nerve center for Enclara. What stands out the most to you?

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Eric 01:13 Yeah, you got to jump in. Take it over.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The organization also deploys volunteers to help families care for animals in the home. “In In our quest to provide the absolute highest level of patient care, we saw the need to fully incorporate pets into our care model,” Crawford said in a blog post. We can get pets to grooming and veterinary appointments.

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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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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 15, 2023

With tens of thousands of qualified candidates turned away each year due to a lack of faculty and appropriate clinical training sites, this decreased nursing school capacity feeds directly into hobbled patient care capacity at urban and rural levels.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

They often have behavioral issues stemming from their disorder, their life circumstances, all sort of feeding into each other. Folks with uncontrolled substance use disorder typically are very impulsive. They’re often angry. And so I think for anybody, it is difficult. Janet 04:55 Thank you for that question and for how you framed it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JUNE 27, 2022

In Victorian times, nurses were often seen as "loose women" and "opium users" with poor morals, gallivanting with doctors when they should have been home in the kitchen baking cookies, feeding babies, and ministering to their husbands' needs. These days, saying you're a nurse is almost like saying you're a saint.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Is cancer pain really different? Should we be excluding it?

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Shining Light Hospice

APRIL 8, 2022

Nurses aides can assist with activities of daily living such as toileting, bathing, and feeding. What Does Hospice Care Include? Each Hospice patient has a dynamic team of providers whose priority is on their comfort. The attending physician oversees all care provided.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Like, just even having that and normalizing it, and, like, after 13 years of training or 15 or whatever, chaplains, nurses, social workers, patient care assistants, everyone is working in these systems that are not built to take care of them. This whole idea that our worth is not equal to our productivity. We should be writing.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. It’s just an interference with good patient care. But yeah, full treatment. But I just want to, Scott, I guess we just disagree on this. Eric: Statutory language in a durable power attorney form. Alex: And that’s just annoying.

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The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I spent the first 5 years of my nursing career in Coronary Care and Intensive Care before I accepted a Registered Nurse position in the Oncology Outpatient Unit. Inpatient care is usually for patients who have acute illness, require critical care input, or are scheduled for long treatments that require an overnight stay.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 18, 2022

To begin, as a nurse, you are in a position of power and authority when you provide care. For instance, you may need to touch, feed, or even bathe a patient. You may also need to console the patient or family during times of distress. You can also involve the spiritual care team. Patient celebration with staff.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

So intubation, cpr, feeding tubes. Eric 19:31 So it was interventions like feeding tubes, mechanical ventilation, dialysis at the very end of life. Like, how close to the end of life is it all just in seriously ill patients, I guess. Wait, how is that actually defined? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We want to do meaningful work and so we want to know that the conversations we have impact patient care. Or the cases where someone actually said, “I never want a feeding tube.” Why did they choose to be DNR or not have a feeding tube? It’s kind of like the feeding tubes in advanced dementia.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

But I do think that there’s a tension here, which is that in order for these algorithms to work, you need to feed them a ton of data. And then you think, well, what kind of data are you feeding it? Jenny 27:44 I mean, it’s that, yes, it is better than a coin flip. That’s what these algorithms need.

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