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Three Things to Expect When Heading Home for Hospice Care

Traditions Health

The POC includes information about needed medications, services, medical supplies, and equipment, and outlines a schedule of visits from the doctor, nurse, medical social worker, home health aide, chaplain, and volunteers. A living will makes known your end-of-life preferences in case you arent able to communicate them.

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Done Right, Advance Care Planning Can Reduce High-Acuity Utilization

Hospice News

Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Nursing recently conducted a meta-analysis of studies involving more than 33,000 cancer patients to evaluate the relationship between advance care planning and utilization of aggressive versus comfort-focused care.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. Patient just got discharged from the hospital, just coming back from the skilled nursing facility. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from? Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor. I’m excited.

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Evidence-Based Messaging for Serious Illness Care: A Podcast with Tony Back and Marian Grant

GeriPal

Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Marian: I have been a palliative care nurse practitioner for a number of years. Welcome back to GeriPal, Tony.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. How do I reconcile these two issues?

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Advance Care Planning and Hospice

Hospice Advantage Solutions

Health Care Proxy, Durable power of attorney for healthcare, Living will, and. For a hospice Part A claim, only a physician or nurse practitioner chosen by the patient as the hospice attending can bill for this service under the Medicare hospice benefit. Other qualified health professionals include: Nurse Practitioner.

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