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How Workplace Violence Impacts Home Health Nurses

Nurse.com

As the demand for home healthcare grows, so does the risk of workplace violence for home health nurses. . Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that home healthcare is one of America’s fastest-growing industries, with a projected compound annual growth rate of 5% for 2014–2024, which equals approximately 760,400 new jobs.

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Federal Funds Reignite Hospice Nurse Recruitment Initiative

Hospice News

Collaborating with the Alliance allows for coordination and expansion of the recruitment program across the advocacy organization’s nonprofit home health and hospice providers. There has been less of that in the home health, hospice and palliative care spaces. Department of Labor.

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Hospice, Home Health Providers ‘Squeezing Turnips’ Competing for Clinical Staff

Hospice News

Amid workforce shortages, hospice and home health providers are often at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with other health care organizations that can have greater financial resources, according to Bill English, president and CEO of Accurate Home Care.

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Future Leaders: Tej Dhillon, Founder and CEO, Seva Hospice

Hospice News

One day, a home health nurse came into the facility and said, “You should get into home health.” My father was a little older at the time, and he did eventually go down the path of wanting to start a home health company, and then I had joined him in that endeavor. The only constant is change.

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Leading Nursing Trends for 2023

Nurse.com

The travel nursing industry thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic, as nurses were leaving the bedside due to the stress and difficulties they faced. Although the market for travel nurses has cooled somewhat with the decrease in hospitalizations, travel nurses will continue to be a needed resource.

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Home Healthcare Benefits for Nurses and Patients

Nurse.com

Nurses working in the home healthcare can more easily see the fruits of their labor. Patients are able to demonstrate their progress by completing daily, household tasks all thanks to the hard work and dedication of their home health nurse. Home Healthcare Benefits for Patients. contact hours).

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On National AIDS and Aging Day, A Veteran Nurse Looks Back: How Nurses Can Transform the Lives of HIV/AIDS Patients Through Empathy

Daily Nurse

At the nonprofit VNS Health , where I worked, our home health nurses were not ones to turn their backs on the communities we served and lived in. There was a great deal of misunderstanding and spreading of harmful misinformation about what HIV/AIDS was.

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