Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This, in turn, results in better patient care, improved clinical outcomes, higher patient and employee satisfaction, and enhanced retention rates, she added. Choosing what to wear to a nursing interview can appear a little overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Considering that a DNP is generally clinically oriented, and a PhD and DNS are geared towards academia and research, a nurse wishing to take their clinical knowledge and education to the highest pinnacle would do well to look at the DNP as a very promising direction.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

First, like all nurses, hospice nurses are required to document ALL patient care. Inaccurate and inconsistent documentation is a red flag and could have a negative impact on your patients, your license, and your agency. Related Article: 3 Common Mistakes Hospice Nurses Make and How to Avoid Them. Conclusion.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. Jenny 23:26 Oh, it’s literally a documentary of people following specific patients in nursing homes who benefit from music and seeing the impact of music.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The inpatient cap limits the number of days of inpatient care for which Medicare will pay to 20% of a hospice’s total Medicare patient care days, according to OIG. GIP is used for acute symptom management that cannot be addressed in the home or other setting, according to Hold-Weiss.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Yael Shenkers negative study of primary palliative care for cancer , Randy Curtiss negative study of a Vital Talk-ish intervention , Lieve Van den Blocks negative study of primary PC in nursing homes. It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

I think if someone were to ask me what a tagline is from what I’ve learned in studying lucidity, I would say, like, assume consciousness present, which. So if we had this perspective that something might be present, would we have a different opportunity to see all that’s present and all that could be demonstrated?

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2022

About 30% to 50% of home health and hospice transactions in 2021 involved private equity, according to the M&A advisory firm The Braff Group. With this growing influence comes renewed scrutiny about their impact on patient care, federal policymakers have indicated. That ends on my watch,” Biden said. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.)

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. That’s not unique to POLST as an order.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? So I think that there are a lot of different ways that OT, PT, Speech Language Pathologists bring to patient care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

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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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 8, 2023

Nurses are everywhere. The ubiquitous nurse is present in the care of children, the elderly, the disabled, and the dying. Nurses don't shy away from responsibility — they embrace it. Nurses run towards the metaphorical fire. Without nurses, the healthcare system would essentially grind to a halt.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control. Also, nurse supervisors can share survey scores and comments with the hospice IDG. For instance, you should use simple language that the patient and family members can understand.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

There have been nursing homes that have been sued for patient chokes on some food is DNR DNI, and nobody goes to help the patient perform a simple Heimlich because they’re DNR DN I. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes. This shouldn’t have happened. We can make this better.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

The pandemic erased that complacency and enhanced education for nurses and infection control in unique ways. The renewed focus on how infection control in nursing is presented to healthcare professionals is among the major lessons learned since 2020. It is in our patient homes, nursing homes, some acute rehab centers, hospices.

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Nurse.com

JULY 20, 2022

When on duty, an RN must inform someone in nursing administration of the need to leave so that patient care and other nursing responsibilities are completed by another nurse or healthcare provider. This is essential so that patient safety is not compromised. Consequences for Patient Abandonment.

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A male patient who was diagnosed with dementia several years earlier was admitted to a nursing home on his physician’s recommendation. The patient had a history of “behavior disorders,” delusions, and was a fall risk. The nursing home and staff filed a Motion for Summary Judgment before the trial court.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Speech may or may not be present. Because each patient experiences dementia symptoms somewhat uniquely, the timing of each stage is rather unpredictable to some point. In general, each stage progressively worsens ending in the need for total patient care. They are usually fully incontinent and may have poor oral intake.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

A lot has changed, but what motivated the study was a recognition that most advanced care planning interventional research had been undertaken in nursing homes. And their outcome was whether or not their engagement scores with advanced care planning, it wasn’t. Because they are what they are.

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