Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2023

These cancer patients showed increased hospice enrollment and length of stay, fewer occurrences of inpatient deaths, less intensive care unit use within the last 30 days of life, and reduced use of systemic therapy two weeks before death (such as chemotherapy or inhibitor therapy). of the cancer descendents studied. Minnesota-based St.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JULY 24, 2022

If you’re a new hospice nurse, you might feel overwhelmed. Before you settle into those feelings too much, you might want to explore these 5 tips to help you stop feeling incompetent as a new hospice nurse. Just because you were an expert in the intensive care unit doesn’t mean you will know everything about hospice.

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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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

They were not touching the patient, and they were more likely to be looking at the nurse or the vital signs tracing than the patient or the family member. There’s a vital signs tracing, the patient’s wearing a mask. Of course, the doctors know they’re in simulation, they signed up for it.

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Seasons Hospice

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This is where hospice care can step in and help you and your loved ones on this journey. Let’s look at what hospice care is and how it can help. What Is Hospice Care? Hospices provide palliative care that focuses on improving the quality of life for those with serious illnesses. How Did Hospice Care Start?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

We didn’t have pain as a fifth vital sign then. Particularly with patients in our hospice unit who are often not on IV fluids, getting dehydrated, getting ever-escalating doses of IV Dilaudid. And you should be able to give it in your hospice unit, like we can in our intensive palliative care unit. Janet: Oh.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And my main focus, which I loved in that role was to help develop professional home health and hospice aids. And I know that sounds like a long time ago, but it, when you think of the history of healthcare, you know, only in the last 60 years have nurses held that that role, you know, of, of taking vital signs.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Where Hospice Patients Die. However, as a home hospice nurse, you are more likely to perform death visits in the patient’s personal residence or nursing home. However, as a home hospice nurse, you are more likely to perform death visits in the patient’s personal residence or nursing home. Post-Mortem Care Tips.

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Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

And I wonder as you think about that and as you think about pain being a vital sign, every shift in the hospital people are asking if they’re having pain, we’re going in there asking people, “Are you hurting? And attention to pain builds pain. Do you have pain anywhere?” Ivan Ilyich’s character was a jerk.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Orthostatic vital signs I think can be appropriate. And importantly, like, we think about this all the time, like in our hospice unit. So gait is one we’ve already talked about. Vision is another obvious one. Hearing is one. Looking at medications, I think is a really big one. And highly modifiable. Those types of things.

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