Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It is a complete and unnecessary tragedy that only 5% of heart failure patients who are discharged from the hospital ever utilize in-home hospice services, said Carole Fisher, president of NPHI, in a statement.

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AJN Off the Charts

MAY 9, 2022

Most nurses I know enjoy Nurses Week as an acknowledgment of the very important work we do every day. However, regardless of how management discusses “self-care,” it’s an important idea: that nurses need breaks, moments to relax, have fun, and nourish our own humanity so that we come to work ready to humanely care for patients.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

So when I was researching what hospice was, I was learning through Googling, instead of necessarily learning from the doctors that that’s what he needed. After that, when he went into in-home hospice, I can’t tell you how much the home hospice aides and the nurses were working so hard to try to give my dad the best experience.

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Hospice Care Team A hospice care team comprises various professionals working in synergy to address the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients nearing the end of life, as well as their families. This ensures that the patient’s preferences are respected and followed.

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HPNA podcast

DECEMBER 11, 2023

About Shari: Shari Alton is an ADN RN, CHPN with 45 years of experience in the nursing field. For the last 20 years, Shari has worked at Hospice of the Valley, in Phoenix, Arizona, as an RNCM in Home Hospice. Currently, Shari is the President of the Phoenix Chapter of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association.

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Living With Hospice

OCTOBER 16, 2021

In an end of life situation, there are so many things going on doctors and nurses and treatments and do we do a clinical trials or we don't? It's okay to change our minds about our nurses, and change nurses or nurses aides. I had another patient who changed her mind about dying at home. Not the nurses.

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Red M.D.

OCTOBER 11, 2020

He enrolled in home hospice after his colorectal cancer stopped responding to chemotherapy, and from what I gathered from the hospice nurse, had been in a steep decline for the past several weeks. ” His wife, a former nurse and now his full-time caregiver, looked at me and sadly shook her head.

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Living With Hospice

AUGUST 26, 2020

I am not a licensed counselor, nurse or certified medical professional. I am a very experienced person who's been a caregiver and a longtime hospice volunteer. I've been on the inside and on the outside of hospice. A few years ago, the hospice I was volunteering for accepted a patient in the far north end of our county.

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