Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Illinois-based Great Lakes Health Partners, an Interim Healthcare franchise, is launching a grief support group for employees aimed at helping hospice workers deal with the stress of providing bedside end-of-life care. Can you tell me more about the types of grief support a program such as this offers hospice workers?

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Palliverse

MARCH 18, 2024

The hospice nurse had talked to them about admission, but he was reluctant. I joined the nurse on the home visit, and we were welcomed in by his wife. The pain relief he was on didn’t work, and he didn’t want to try anything else. He hadn’t slept for most of the week.

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NHPCO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“I’m honored to receive the 2021 Hospice Action Network Angel Award, and I look forward to working with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization to continue to advocate for all patients and families.” .

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2025

Tosto: Most people dont experience grief until they have to, and usually the loss of a loved one on hospice services is their first experience with grief. I have noticed that when people hear hospice, they immediately think the patient is going to pass away within two days.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 8, 2024

Supporting someone with a life-limiting diagnosis or talking about death can be difficult for many people, but not for a hospice nurse. Maryette Williamson, RN, BSN, knows firsthand from working as a BAYADA Hospice Nurse in Fayetteville, North Carolina. How did you get interested in working as a home hospice nurse?

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Nurses have faced grief on overdrive in the last several years with the unexpected challenges brought by the pandemic. Your grief may look very different than your coworker’s down the hall. At times, the grief feels manageable. Coping with grief over patient deaths. Caring despite personal challenges.

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Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Revisiting this complex topic for a third time, Mitch Ware takes a deeper look into the seven stages of grief and explores how we cycle through them. We've addressed grief in two previous episodes. Well, today, we're going to take a look at a little different perspective at grief and the ways to manage it. Grief just sucks.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

McKinnis also has a private therapy practice and previously served as the director of patient and family support and grief services for the North Carolina-based hospice provider Four Seasons. Snyder previously served as a hospice nurse for 23 years. Established roughly a decade ago by five U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

I lead a hospice with about 260 ADC patients, including an inpatient unit with 16 beds, and 1,700 patients in palliative care ranging from clinic, inpatient units, and in the home. We also run a caregiver institute and a Full Circle grief and loss center. We’re all human.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

Nursing is a second career for Derek J. Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. Meet Derek Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, and hospice nurse in Colorado.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2024

As a hospice nurse, a challenging and unavoidable aspect of your role is navigating end-of-life conversations. In this article, we’ll explore the challenges of these conversations and some key strategies to help new hospice nurses. You should also utilize your hospice volunteers when you can.

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Shining Light Hospice

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Nursing Care And Symptom Management. A benefit of the patient-centered care model used in hospice is that if changes to the care plan are needed to manage symptoms, those changes can occur quickly. Hospice Is More Than Just Medical Care. Hospice is a rich resource with professionals who understand the issues surrounding grief.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 14, 2020

As for me, it was the Balloon Lady’s face on that beautiful spring morning that changed my hospice nursing experience from an interesting detour in my career to a lifetime commitment. Will you make a donation today to help us continue to offer exceptional care to our local communities?

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Seasons Hospice

JULY 15, 2022

There are a variety of ways that hospice care providers can help relieve pain for their patients. Medication is often used to control pain, and hospice nurses are trained in how to administer medications safely and effectively. They can also offer grief counseling to help family members deal with the death of a loved one.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The daughter was filled with anticipatory grief, regret, and anger. The call from the hospice nurse came at 4:30 in the afternoon. I was only covering the hospice unit for the day. The patient’s daughter was sitting vigil by her bedside. Sam sat down in front of her on the foot of the bed. Eric 45:55 No preamble.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I’m guessing some, because I’ve read a lot of articles, are social workers and nurses, past hospice nurses. That’s getting a little off-topic because that’s after death, but I think with what doulas do is reprocessing and helping with some grief we can.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Questions such as: Why did the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate volunteer involvement in hospice as a condition of participation in the Medicare Hospice Benefit? In my 30+ years as a hospice nurse, I have had the privilege of working with many hospice volunteers.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 5, 2020

Let's start with the fact that there is a real thing called the grief cycle or the grief process. You know, there are five basic steps to the grief cycle, there's denial, there's anger, there's bargaining. They know what the grief process is like. You've heard of it, I'm sure. That's true. It's VERY true.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

He, there’s so much focus given to bereavement and grief as well, and he fears that again, there’s just not enough thought giving to what that dying person themselves is going through, whether they’re afraid to die with any secrets surrounded by platitudes. And hospice has evolved in those, what, 50 years.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Better Pain Control for patient Hospice care allows for better pain control as it is truly patient-centered. Social workers identify needs related to caregiver breakdown, knowledge deficits, crises that may arise, grief support, and spiritual care. Extended family members can also benefit from the support of a dedicated hospice team.

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