Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The ability to empathize is especially important in healthcare professions where biases can contribute to healthcare disparities. Healthcare providers must be able to better recognize situations where they can offer empathy in addition to problem solving. Patient care is more than just physical healing.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The last few years in particular carried exacerbated pressures on palliative care workers, according to Beth Lown, chief medical officer at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare based in Boston. Alarming levels of burnout and low levels of well-being have been documented in health professionals across care settings.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes. We can make this better.

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Nurse.com

JULY 11, 2022

The RN was also accused of not updating patient care plans, but she stated she had, in fact, done this and had taken screen shots of her updates. The attorney will most likely discuss the federal Nursing Home Reform Act with the RN. Any nursing home receiving Medicare or Medicaid funds must comply with these standards.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

“We are building an integrated care model that holistically addresses an individual’s physical, mental and social needs, changing health care for good,” Optum at Home CEO Douglas Wenners, the founder of Prospero, said in a LinkedIn post. ” St. Croix Hospice : Regional powerhouse with local roots Minnesota-based St.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Howard is an important nursing leader, and we’re pleased to profile her as we celebrate Black History Month with the Black Nursing Leaders Series 2023. In February, we’ll highlight healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making transformational impacts in nursing.

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Diversity Nursing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The median Nurse response time was 24 seconds. While further study is needed, I do believe there is an opportunity for these socks to be used in inpatient hospital settings, Nursing homes and rehab facilities," said Tammy Moore, PhD, RN, senior study author and Associate Chief Nurse of Ohio State’s Neurological Institute.

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Diversity Nursing

MAY 1, 2023

Gig shifts can be beneficial for both Nurses and healthcare facilities. Nurses who work gig shifts have the flexibility to choose when and where they work, and they can often earn a higher hourly rate than they would in a traditional full-time position.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms.

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Top nurse work environments 1. Hospitals Nurses working in the hospital environment directly oversee and administer patient care plans. Typically, nurses spend time with and balance the care of several patients simultaneously.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 10, 2023

After a hospitalization, home healthcare enables patients to recover where they feel most comfortable: in their homes. Nurses visit patients to provide care to keep them at home, given that hospital readmissions cost the U.S. healthcare system more than $41 billion each year.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 5, 2023

She’ll graduate with her doctorate in nursing practice as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in December 2023. Coates is an important nursing leader , and we’re pleased to profile her as part of the Champions of Nursing Diversity Series 2023. What is the most significant challenge facing nursing today?

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Nurses always seem to show up where and when they’re needed. Of course, they staff emergency rooms, ICUs, home health care agencies, community health clinics, and nursing homes worldwide, but they show up elsewhere, too. There are so many of us out there, and that isn’t likely to change.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nurse specialists and nurse generalists are both common within the nursing profession and 21st-century healthcare, and both serve important purposes in patient care as well as non-clinical settings. What are the repercussions for your nursing career? And how can one accomplish both?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 18, 2022

I started out with my associate’s degree in nursing, returning to obtain my Bachelor of Science in Nursing a year later and then returning to graduate school to complete my Master’s of Science in Nursing in 2014. How did you decide to make the leap as a nurse entrepreneur? The nursing shortage is at crisis level.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 28, 2022

Lorraine Toderdash, Senior Product Manager at AlayaCare was invited to Home Care Pulse’s podcast, Vision: The Home Care Leaders Podcast, [ see the full episode here ] to discuss how to improve your care plans to increase engagement, accountability, and ultimately improve patient care.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 29, 2022

Lorraine Toderdash, Senior Product Manager at AlayaCare was invited to Home Care Pulse’s podcast, Vision: The Home Care Leaders Podcast, [ see full episode here ] to discuss how to improve your care plans to increase engagement, accountability, and ultimately improve patient care.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? So I think that there are a lot of different ways that OT, PT, Speech Language Pathologists bring to patient care.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nurses, the hard-working lifeblood and connective tissue of the healthcare system, can often feel as if they are doing battle with elemental forces far beyond their control in their efforts to provide optimal patient care and fulfill their personal and professional mission.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 3, 2022

A home healthcare infusion nurse is concerned about one of her RN colleagues. This colleague documented that she infused a medication for a home care patient in contradiction to the directions on the infusion bag from the home infusion pharmacy. Everyday Ethics for Nurses (7.3

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 8, 2023

The Ubiquitous Nurse Where would the country be without nurses? Without nurses, the healthcare system would essentially grind to a halt. We call nurses the lifeblood of healthcare, and they're also the connective tissue and the veritable mitochondria, the cellular powerhouses of the delivery of patient care.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 18, 2023

Nurse charting’s growing role Overcoming documentation challenges is key in the acute care setting, where charting is taking an even more prominent role in patient care and safety , according to Natalia Cineas, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive at New York City (NYC) Health and Hospitals.

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Here are some commonly asked questions about nursing resumes for students or newly graduated nurses. Clinical rotations immerse you into a healthcare setting and introduce you to a variety of specialties and complex medical environments. Do I need to mention non-nursing work experience? spring 2022).

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In some DNP programs, you can choose a clinical nurse specialist or educator track, or you can choose to focus on direct patient care as an expert clinician. Your DNP program will provide a much deeper dive into the theory and science driving evidence-based advanced nursing practice.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Faith Protsman, regional medical director at VITAS Healthcare, Raianne Melton, senior clinical manager of professional service at Axxess, and Cheryl Hamilton Fried, president & CEO at Blue Ridge Hospice. One of our team members helped us develop our patient care coordination app.

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A male patient who was diagnosed with dementia several years earlier was admitted to a nursing home on his physician’s recommendation. The patient had a history of “behavior disorders,” delusions, and was a fall risk. The nursing home and staff filed a Motion for Summary Judgment before the trial court.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 19, 2023

I was unsure if I would be an effective nurse,” she says. “ I shared my concerns with my mother, an ICU nurse at the VA then. Nurses are needed to help guide policy, and the information is particularly validating to listeners when it comes from a nurse with a disability.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

Healthcare workers believed that they had a good understanding of hospital infection prevention policies.” The pandemic erased that complacency and enhanced education for nurses and infection control in unique ways. Perhaps one of the most impacted was nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 6, 2024

Instead, PNPs work under the supervision of a physician or collaborate with other healthcare providers to provide comprehensive care. Psychiatric nurse practitioners (PNPs) are advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) who are trained to assess, diagnose, and treat mental health conditions in adults and families.

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Nurse.com

JULY 20, 2022

When on duty, an RN must inform someone in nursing administration of the need to leave so that patient care and other nursing responsibilities are completed by another nurse or healthcare provider. This is essential so that patient safety is not compromised. Consequences for Patient Abandonment.

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Diversity Nursing

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A Health Policy Nurse (HPN) plays an active role in forming and communicating public health policies with the goal of improving the overall well-being of society. Flight Nurse. They also communicate with medical professionals at the receiving facility, to ensure all case notes and patient files get to the right person.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes? Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes. And while they identified thousands of patients and enrolled. And we keep on bringing up primary palliative care. Alex: We did one on patient care Centers for patients with cancer.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 3, 2022

A home healthcare infusion nurse is concerned about one of her RN colleagues. This colleague documented that she infused a medication for a home care patient in contradiction to the directions on the infusion bag from the home infusion pharmacy. Everyday Ethics for Nurses (7.3

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Nurse.com

MAY 18, 2022

When a nurse licensee challenges a board of nursing discipline, the licensee often bases the case on a violation of his or her due process rights. In the following case, an LPN fought a board of nursing order revoking her license. Expired Medications Discovered by ED Nurse. Jenny, an LPN, worked for a nursing home.

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