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Empath Health Launches New PACE Center

Hospice News

The center offers seniors access to primary care, therapies, skilled care, social and emotional support and day care at the Empath LIFE Day Center and Medical Clinic; in-home care and support and transportation to and from Empath LIFE or other approved specialists.

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Will the Real Nurse Please Stand Up? 

Daily Nurse

Have you ever heard a nurse pass judgment on a colleague and say that another nurse isn’t a “real nurse”? Have you noticed some nurses looking down on those who choose to be school nurses or work in home health, dialysis, assisted living, medical offices, or ambulatory surgery? School nursing?

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

That assumes that you have somebody at home who’s willing and able to take care of you. And if we don’t make that happen, those patients end up in the hospital or they end up in nursing homes. It is skilled care even when you have no skills, and you have no license, but you’re doing this 24 hours.

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Career Spotlight: Fighting for justice for older people and those with dementia for 50+ years

The Nurse Break

Emeritus Professor Rhonda Nay has agreed to write for The Nurse Break about her nursing career, passion for justice for older people and those with dementia, lessons learnt, rewards and more. A brief history of my career Secretary or Nurse Let me provide a brief history of my career to set the rewards in context.