Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Through compassion, medication, education, listening, and just being present, we can alleviate suffering and preserve one’s dignity in their last earthly days.” Dopf is board-certified physician in internal medicine, geriatric medicine and hospice and palliative medicine.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Many patients also present with undiagnosed baseline cognitive impairments, a significant risk factor for postoperative delirium 4. A secretary or registered nurse contacts the patient within 72 hours post-discharge to inquire about safety, post-operative complications, pain management, and general feedback 5.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. I made my way through the ranks as a CNA, then a registered nurse, and then a nurse practitioner and now, I’m in a leadership position.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 7, 2023

Georgia Reiner, MS CPHRM, a Risk Analyst at the Nurses Service Organization (NSO), agrees that telehealth has been around for a while. Some nursing professionals, mainly advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), including nurse practitioners (NPs), worked in telehealth before the beginning of the pandemic.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice? These organizations got together to bring national experts together and to say, “Why during this unprecedented time of human longevity have evidence-based geriatric health care models not taken root?

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

The nurses and pharmacists on the phones were true experts in their field and were helping people who were scared or sick or both. I am currently the only Registered Nurse in the country to possess this credential. Think of a “charge nurse” for the poison center and that is a good approximation of my role.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

You know, I think it’s 18% of the G D P is spent on healthcare, over 4 trillion and home care, including pt, ot, registered nurse at-home services. If you’re an agency who also provides pt, OT of speech pathology, registered nursing at home, geriatric management, that’s a wonderful thing.

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