Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

How do you create a control tower or a population health team as many of the IDNs would call it, that oversees that group?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

We used a large online survey panel, the Ipsos Knowledge Panel, and we presented older adults with two vignettes. And after each vignette, we presented seven rationales that a trusted clinician could use to explain why the person should stop taking that medicine. ” Ariel: Exactly. It’s kind of the chronic care model, right?

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American In-Home Care

AUGUST 1, 2024

Yet, for individuals living with dementia, this daily ritual can present a series of challenges. Plate guards or deep-dish plates can help prevent spills and facilitate self-feeding. Mealtime should be a comforting and enjoyable part of the day. Here are practical tips to help improve mealtimes for someone with dementia.

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Diversity Nursing

MARCH 26, 2024

Embrace the present moment fully, allowing yourself to be fully present and aware of your surroundings. Try bringing some bird seed with you to feed the local wildlife. Find a quiet and comfortable space where you can fully focus on your breath, letting go of any distractions or worries that may be weighing on your mind.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Understanding Option Paralysis Option paralysis, sometimes known as choice overload, occurs when you’re presented with too many choices. You may also find podcasts, articles, videos, and social media feeds that help you stay current. This is when you need a plan, a focus, and the determination to move forward no matter what.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JULY 23, 2023

There are many points of discussion within the desirability of workplace uniforms, the hierarchy it represents, patient perceptions and what constitutes a professional presentation. Menstrual protection is only one of those points that needs to be part of the conversation. Guo, JL.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 26, 2024

Presented as a game that only a lucky few can win, new nurse residencies provide great career-launching benefits for a small cohort of novice nurses. Feeding Our Young, Not Eating Our Young When asked about new nurse residencies, some old-school nurses may gruffly say, “When I graduated, nobody held my hand.

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Hope Hospice

JUNE 29, 2022

If no obvious injury is present, have the person roll onto their side. You might also like: Assisting With Personal Hygiene > Seniors and Hot-Weather Safety > Challenges With Feeding Elderly Patients > The post Fall Prevention appeared first on Hope Hospice and Health Services. Do not move your shoulders or feet.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. When to Seek Help Caring for someone with ALS often presents many challenges for the patient’s primary caregiver. ALS can also impair the ability to think and cause significant changes to a person’s memory.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

Simply put, you must compare the present to the past. For example, if your patient was eating 50% upon admission and able to feed themselves, and now they require assistance with feeding and are only eating 25%, you should state it in detail. 5 Tips for EASY Hospice Recertification. Use Comparison Documentation.

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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. The live webinars cover a variety of topics, including four presentations specifically on aspects of dementia care. Tips to help make mealtime go smoothly. LEARN MORE.

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Comfort Home Care

APRIL 18, 2024

From the characteristic tremors and rigidity to challenges with balance and mobility, Parkinson’s presents a unique set of obstacles that can make even the simplest tasks daunting. Living with Parkinson’s Disease presents numerous challenges, but you don’t have to face them alone.

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Seniority, the Mavencare Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

Like fully-fledged hypertension, prehypertension can, and often does, exist in the body without presenting symptoms. Johns Hopkins University recommends a diet that “feed[s] healthy blood pressure,” which involves eating foods rich in magnesium, potassium, and calcium. Limiting alcohol consumption and quitting smoking.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What aspects of work feed my emotional and spiritual lives? Some questions to explore include: What is it that makes me truly happy? What kind of people do I like to work with? Is doing hands-on care something that matters to me? Are there certain types of activities, tasks, or challenges that appeal most to my intellect?

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Nurse.com

MAY 20, 2022

” Opportunities to widen and deepen my empathy presented themselves during my time as a corrections nurse at the jail. He wore diapers and couldn’t consistently feed himself. . “I just want to thank you,” he told me one day when I was checking his vital signs. “You have helped me so much.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 28, 2022

While we recognize that a caregiver isn’t hired to be a personal chef, sometimes clients do not have the ability to feed themselves or would appreciate being cared for in a small way with a simple dish.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Our volunteers can help with a pet’s daily needs – things like walking, feeding, and cleaning litter boxes. A caregiver can certainly complete the form, but when you get to the notarized page, the patient will have to sign it and be present upon the notarization.” We can get pets to grooming and veterinary appointments.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The decision by Schiavo’s husband to suspend artificial life support and feeding for his wife, who was in an irreversible persistent vegetative state, prompted a seven-year legal battle with her parents. In the backdrop of these personal events, hangs the Schiavo case.

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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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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. Is that how we presented ourselves? And love that Jim Croce choice. Whats in a name? Ive got a name. No, you dont need to be Canadian. Canadians are welcoming.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2025

We presented these statistics to our product team and eventually implemented an allergy interaction evaluation system at the point of entry. Every call or message creates a case that feeds into our newly developed dashboard. We are committed to enhancing the customer experience with our dedicated training and quality teams.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I am constantly talking to clinical social workers about what are the ways that you can be contributing to research, to publications, to scholarship, to presentations, even if it’s a reflection paper? And you feed the medicine in. Barbara: … to conduct the research, write the paper, do the thing that creates a publication.

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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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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. I recently asked one oncologist what he thinks about palliative care, and he said, “I sort of look at my role with the patient is to present the glass half full, meaning treatment.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I’m wondering if we can think about that structured approach if I just present the case and how you all would think about it from a trauma informed. And I love the structured approach. Alex 27:43 Is that a tongue twister? Eric 27:45 Yes. Trauma informed. Trauma informed care approach. So you ready?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By completing the Practical Geriatric Assessment, we’re able to feed in and get a result of the probable toxicity that patients will experience. William: Not the future, but the present. John: And the other thing that perhaps we could add- Eric: Oh, go ahead John. No, no, please. And that’s another important feature.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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. But yeah, full treatment.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

And so in that way, it’s not the letterhead or the four walls and the roof that are perpetuating the present, it’s the people. That, as you were saying, Eric, that bring me joy that I can pursue because they feed me, as well as whatever the reward system that I’m in. We should be writing. We should be doing this.

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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.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 30, 2022

According to our surveys, caregivers with a lack of proper training on the subject find the following tasks the most challenging: handling violent or abusive behaviors, trouble communicating, challenging emotions, finding appropriate activities, and feeding/eating challenges.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. Alex: A feeding tube. And I described a code that I led as a senior resident. I know, man, I just screwed up.

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The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It is my job to educate each patient on the regime they will be having, ensure the patient has a full understanding of the treatment and that they know how to manage any side effects that may present. Often the only symptom they will present with is a temperature. They can’t take a Panadol and see how they feel in the morning.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

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. It won’t take long, go get it by yourself.” Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What Items Should Be Present In Your Living Will? In your living will, you should clearly state your preferences for medical treatment, including life-sustaining measures such as artificial ventilation and feeding tubes. It’s important to note that advanced directives are not just for people with terminal illnesses.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I believe that this expression refers to the notion that our emotional attachment to the things that make up our lives (relationships, money, success, possessions, family) are what cause us suffering, and the ability to live in the present without grasping for what we don't already have can help to alleviate that suffering.

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