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5 Business Ideas for an Enterprising NP

Minority Nurse

Blood products, TPN, dobutamine for heart failure, and other therapies can be administered in hospices , nursing homes, assisted living and memory care facilities, and other settings. An NP-run practice focusing on the needs of older adults could bill insurance or be run on a concierge basis.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. Anne: Right. Lynn: Great.

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

GeriPal

We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 And then Hospice Nurse Julie. Julie McFadden goes by Hospice Nurse Julie. I’m going to start off with Nurse Julie, Hospice Nurse Julie, I think that’s your full title on TikTok.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Lauren: Yeah.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

Alex 32:22 Geriatrics Palliative Care Podcast. The call from the hospice nurse came at 4:30 in the afternoon. I was only covering the hospice unit for the day. But then it’s not until the moment and the night of that you fill out the skeleton with all the, you know, flesh. Emily 32:24 There we go.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Does the hospice offer general inpatient care? Does the hospice offer continuous home care? .” It’s not that complex. Are you going to see a doctor are? What happens after hours if you have an emergency in your home?

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How Hospice Supports Families

1-800-HOSPICE

A well-timed hospice referral has been shown to cut the risk of clinical depression among family caregivers by more than 88%. Additionally, Medicare pays 100% for home hospice with no copays or deductibles. Caregiver Education in Hospice. Hospice nurses spend a significant amount of their time training family caregivers.

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