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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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The State of the Hospice Nursing Workforce 

Hospice News

We were interested in developing a clinical rotation model and an onboarding model that would provide real-life exposure opportunities for nursing students in home health and hospice, as well as a tool that agencies could use to successfully integrate newly hired graduated registered nurses into their organizations,” Harmuth said.

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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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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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Will the Real Nurse Please Stand Up? 

Daily Nurse

Have you ever heard a nurse pass judgment on a colleague and say that another nurse isn’t a “real nurse”? Have you noticed some nurses looking down on those who choose to be school nurses or work in home health, dialysis, assisted living, medical offices, or ambulatory surgery?

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Mourning Dove Medical CEO Dr. Kaishauna Guidry: Physicians Need a Framework for Understanding Hospice

Hospice News

For example, a patient may be hospice-eligible, but they may come on to home health because that’s all they know about. While they were in home health, nurses would observe them declining clinically, and I would go visit them and talk to them about hospice care or talk to them about our palliative program.

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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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