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Building Mental Health Supports for Palliative Care Teams

Hospice News

A state of stress Palliative professionals of all walks are navigating symptoms of burnout, including social workers, grief counselors, chaplains, physicians and nurses. During that time frame, workers reported low levels of well-being that indicated a higher potential risk of burnout.

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How to Start a Hospice Agency: A Step-by-Step Guide

CareAcademy Blog

Located in a tranquil, home-like setting, the facility offers a peaceful environment that prioritizes the quality of a patients remaining life over curing illness. At the heart of a hospice care is its staff, including nurses, doctors, social workers, and chaplains.

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Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner vs Psychiatrist vs Therapist: Understanding the Differences

Minority Nurse

They work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers , to provide comprehensive care to patients. They can prescribe medication and provide psychotherapy to their patients. Therapists provide talk therapy to their patients.

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AMOREM Launches New Inpatient Center, Agrace Temporarily Closes Facility

Hospice News

At such a vulnerable time, it is important for families to have a resource like a patient care unit right in their backyard. AMOREM provides comfort and understanding in ensuring that their compassionate and incredibly skilled nurses are there to support patients and families. Is this [facility] ever going to happen?

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

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. But Theresa has done a review, so I’m sure you could talk more about that. Theresa 23:42 Well, we really should have Dan Cohen on the podcast.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

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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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

And typically, in the education around facilitating those conversations, we’re focused on eliciting goals and what are that individual’s goals of care and how does that direct the plan right now, knowing that some of those decisions, even if you make a choice now aren’t actually going to come into play for days, weeks, months.