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Maintaining a Relationship with your Loved One in a Facility during COVID-19.

Hospice 101

Many of us reading this article have a loved one in a facility, whether it is at an Assisted Living Facility, Memory Care Facility, Group Home, Senior Apartments, Skilled Nursing Home, Hospital, or other CBRF. Even though our loved ones may be in a facility in town, they feel far away during this time. Feeling more creative?

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. You walk through that door and you feel like you’ve come into more of a nursing home. The doors aren’t locked.

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5 Business Ideas for an Enterprising NP

Minority Nurse

These types of patients might request home infusions of vitamins and minerals, immunoglobulins, or perhaps IV fluids for hydration or even getting over a hangover. Idea #2: Concierge Medicine Concierge medical practices provide a range of services beyond just infusion therapy and are becoming increasingly popular.

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Nurses Week: Giving Thanks

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Nurses continue to be at the center of COVID-19 response, whether it's our intrepid nationwide network of public health nurses focusing on population health and direct response, or nurses in hospitals, clinics, home health agencies, schools, dialysis centers, assisted living, nursing homes, and any other milieu you can think of.

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Nursing the Nation and the World

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Hospitals are crucial, of course, but there's more to nursing than units like the ED, the ICU, med-surg, and telemetry. Nurses nurse the nation in schools, dialysis centers, assisted living, nursing homes, home health, hospice, and public health.

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Nurse Specialist or Nurse Generalist?

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Licensed practical or vocational nurses are usually considered generalists, and their work is crucial in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, physician offices, and other milieus where they are the lifeblood of patient care. Generalist nurse practitioners also serve an important clinical purpose in many facilities.

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Soaring — or Sinking? — Sodium

Chicago Caregiving

Health magazines rail against it in processed food, and restaurants routinely provide reduced-sodium soy sauces. Most of the time, people who come in with high sodium levels are either an older person in a nursing home or a young baby who can’t tell you that they’re thirsty and that they need water,” Paparello says.