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

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

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. So I’m going to present a case. I’m gonna put feeding tubes in advanced dementia as a pluot. Eric 14:29 Yeah, yeah.

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Emerging Services Help Hospice Patients Reduce Anxiety About Pets’ Future

Hospice News

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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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

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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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

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. It’s just an interference with good patient care.

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Oncology Nursing – a day in the life of supporting patients

The Nurse Break

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. I also check all the necessary baseline tests are completed prior to the patient commencing treatment. Often the only symptom they will present with is a temperature.

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