HOSPICE KEYS
Opening the doors to professional hospice care
What are Hospice Keys?
Hospice Keys are educational resources, metrics, key performance indicators, and recent developments designed to help you improve operational efficiency and deliver improved quality of care to your patients.
Hospice Keys open the doors to your professional growth in hospice and help your team to stay current and informed.
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Hospice Keys
Educational resources for the hospice team. We open the doors to professional hospice care!
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The brutal procedure can save lives, but only in particular cases. Why has it become a default treatment?
Prognostication of the Last Days of Life
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Accurate prediction of impending death (i.e., last few days of life) is essential for terminally-ill cancer patients and their families. International guidelines state that clinicians should identify ...
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Background: People living with advanced cancer experience functional decline and increasing difficulty participating in activities of daily living over their fi...
ELNEC – For Veterans Updated Curriculum - We Honor Veterans
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The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) – For Veterans Project is a national educational initiative to improve palliative care. Given that the number of Vietnam-era Veterans over 65 yea...
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The role of neuroleptics for terminal agitated delirium is controversial. We assessed the effect of 3 neuroleptic strategies on refractory agitation in cancer patients with terminal delirium.In this s...
Conveying a patient's value is at the heart of a new approach to care
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Intensive Caring means 'relinquishing the need to fix, along with tolerating clinical ambiguity, accepting and honouring the patient as expert, and trusting in the process.'
🗝️ Diminished drinking is a normal part of the dying![]()
🗝️ How can hospice teams better support families experiencing diminished drinking patterns with their loved ones?![]()
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Background: The optimal management of diminishing drinking at the end of life is contentious. Clinicians and family members may understand the phenomenon differ...
Opinion | Dying With Dignity: A Look at the Advantages of the Medicare Hospice Benefit
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The program is both cost-effective and compassionate
www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/jimmy-carter-still-in-hospice-care/67-2f3fed88-9b0c-4366-b041-e9...
Former President Jimmy Carter remains in hospice care
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The CEO of Empath Health says longer stays in hospice are not that unusual.
🗝️ Caregivers often preferred lighter sedation than nurses. Many patients were undersedated in comparison with caregivers' PSGs, and this highlights room for improvement.![]()
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In the last days of life, many patients with cancer develop delirium and become restless/agitated; this can be highly distressing. Caregivers and physicians alike are often concerned about the use of ...
🗝️ First line antiemetics in advanced cancer are metoclopramide and haloperidol, and second-line medications are methotrimeprazine and olanzapine.![]()
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MASCC antiemetics in advanced cancer updated guideline - PubMed
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First-line antiemetics for nausea and vomiting in advanced cancer are metoclopramide and haloperidol, and second-line medications are methotrimeprazine and olanzapine.
hubs.ly/Q01P0bvB0 quick informative podcast on the end of the public health emergency.
Best Case/Worst Case Framework
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This pre- and postintervention study evaluates the association of the Best Case/Worst Case framework with surgical communication when communicating to older patients about treament options in high-sta...
Physician #certifications are a necessary component of the #hospice eligibility process, monitoring continued patient hospice #eligibility. The process ensures that patients with continued hospice need receive services while patients who are no longer eligible are discharged.
The secret to living longer may be your social life
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The Italian island of Sardinia has more than six times as many centenarians as the mainland and ten times as many as North America. Why? According to psychologist Susan Pinker, it's not a sunny dispos...
🗝️ Understanding different types of dementia will improve documentation, and symptom management, and care for the patient and family.
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“What Is Vascular #Dementia t.co/b3AjKIPzOc by @NIHAging #VCID #Alzheimers #health”
🗝️ Prognostication for eligibility for hospice remains difficult for many.![]()
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🗝️ Clinicians are very good at prognosticating last days.![]()
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Background The accuracy of prognostication has important implications for patients, families, and health services since it may be linked to clinical decision-making, patient experience and outcomes an...
Thank you to the wound care nurses!🩺🫶🏻 Know a special WOC nurse?!? Tag them below!!🫶🏻🩺![]()
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#woundcarepro #wounds #woundeducation #woundhealing
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🟣 Grief is a lonely experience. It's even more isolating if friends and colleagues, worried about saying 'the wrong thing,' simply stay away.![]()
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🔵 How could we do better? Well, here are some suggestions. They are all based on feedback from bereaved people, and taken from 'Listen.'![]()
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🟣 Don't avoid us. Please make contact. We don't have the energy to initiate contact, but we want to feel connected.![]()
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🔵 Say our dead person's name. Tell us your stories about them. Give us new glimpses of them.![]()
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🟣 It's awkward. We know. Don't let that get in the way. Be awkward and turn up. It's OK to say 'I don't know what to say.'![]()
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🔵 Don't give us platitudes, or try to cheer us up. Just be with us in our sorrow. That's how we feel right now, but company sometimes helps a bit. Try 'I'm sorry you're so sad' if you need to say something.![]()
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🟣 Don't ask us how we are. The world has changed so much we can't answer a question as big as that. Try 'How are you just now?' or 'Do you feel up to a chat today?' or 'It's good to see you.'![]()
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🔵 Offers of practical help can be welcome. Thanks for walking my dog, taking my bins out, bringing me a meal for my freezer, or calling from the supermarket to ask what I need.![]()
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🟣 When we're coming back to work or re-joining social activities, some of us would like support. Don't guess: ask us whether we want a card and flowers or just 'business as usual' on our first day back. Make it easier for us to get back into familiar routines.![]()
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🔵 Listen. Let us tell our stories, the sad ones and the happy ones. Sometimes, we want to connect to happy past events, other times we want to share our current sorrow.![]()
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🟣 Keep on checking in. Don't stop after a week, a month, a year. Grief has no time limits. Remember important dates if you can, but random contact is appreciated, too.![]()
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🙏🏽 Big thanks to my talented colleague Monica Lalanda for making this fabulous graphic from my book. Isn't it a great way to convey a message? ![]()
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🗝️ This is a must-read article about the role and perception of hospice aides. ![]()
🗝️ Use this as a discussion tool for assessing the role and feelings of your teammates. ![]()
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795615/?fbclid=IwAR0hV3MQ3G5AlmylgEGpgkRFLuPPjTbn-0wybTc2UA...
WE’RE THE EYES AND THE EARS, BUT WE DON’T HAVE A VOICE: PERSPECTIVES OF HOSPICE AIDES
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Hospice aides are integral to the delivery of home hospice care and play an essential role in the effective communication and collaboration of the hospice interdisciplinary team. Despite their critica...No feed found with the ID 1. Go to the All Feeds page and select an ID from an existing feed.
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