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Why We Can’t Live Without Our Nursing Assistants

Traditions Health

Nursing assistants help care teams in hospitals, nursing homes, home health and hospice situations, and more. Role of Nursing Assistants Nursing assistants care for the physical, emotional, mental, and even spiritual health of their patients.

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End-of-Life Care: Your Patient Has Died, Now What?

Hospice Nurse Hero

Where Hospice Patients Die. While nearly 80% of people say they want to die at home , only 20% do. Believe it or not, many people still end up dying in acute care settings or nursing homes. However, as a home hospice nurse, you are more likely to perform death visits in the patient’s personal residence or nursing home.

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

I spent some time at the branch level and then became a corporate level clinical educator for a national home health organization. And my main focus, which I loved in that role was to help develop professional home health and hospice aids. Suddenly people were realizing that, oh, you know, people wanted to stay home.

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Episode 38: LWH Q&A #1

Living With Hospice

In this episode of Living With Hospice, Mitch makes good on a promise made during the first episode to answer questions that readers have submitted over time. Transcript: Welcome to another episode of Living With Hospice. Okay, another sign to look for is a change in their vital signs. That would be awesome.

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Falls and Fractures: A Podcast with Sarah Berry

GeriPal

Eric 02:48 Well, I want to thank you for joining us because you’ve done a lot of the studies around falls and fractures and like, how we think about, especially like in, in frailer older adults, those in nursing homes. About one out of every three older adults falls each year in the nursing home that’s higher.