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Educational resources for the hospice team. We open the doors to professional hospice care! Hospice Keys 6 days ago Thank you to the wound care nurses!🩺🫶🏻 Know a special WOC nurse?!? Tag them below!!🫶🏻🩺#woundcarepro #wounds #woundeducation #woundhealing … See MoreSee Less Photo View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 7 days ago .🟣 Grief is a lonely experience. It’s even more isolating if friends and colleagues, worried about saying ‘the wrong thing,’ simply stay away.🔵 How could we do better? Well, here are some suggestions. They are all based on feedback from bereaved people, and taken from ‘Listen.’🟣 Don’t avoid us. Please make contact. We don’t have the energy to initiate contact, but we want to feel connected.🔵 Say our dead person’s name. Tell us your stories about them. Give us new glimpses of them.🟣 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.’🔵 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.🟣 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.’🔵 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.🟣 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.🔵 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.🟣 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.🙏🏽 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? @wmcollinsbooks … See MoreSee Less Photo View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 1 week ago 🗝️ 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. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795615/?fbclid=IwAR0hV3MQ3G5AlmylgEGpgkRFLuPPjTbn-0wybTc2UA… … See MoreSee Less 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… View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 2 weeks ago www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9022128/ … See MoreSee Less Association between Spirituality, Religiosity, Spiritual Pain, Symptom Distress, and Quality of Life among Latin American Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Multicenter Study

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The purpose of this multicenter study was to characterize the association between spirituality, religiosity, spiritual pain, symptom distress, coping, and quality of life (QOL) among Latin American ad… View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 2 weeks ago hospicenews.com/2023/04/07/cms-seeks-answers-on-hospice-utilization-trends-spending/ … See MoreSee Less CMS Seeks Answers on Hospice Utilization Trends, ‘Unrelated’ Spending

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The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking answers from the hospice community — including some around utilization patterns and View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 2 weeks ago 🗝️ First-line antiemetics for nausea and vomiting in advanced cancer are metoclopramide and haloperidol, and second-line medications are methotrimeprazine and olanzapine. … See MoreSee Less 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. View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 3 weeks ago 🗝️ Please share.🗝️ The work of hospice is heavy and this article tells how one nurse sought help.🗝️ You matter. … See MoreSee Less Take Off the Mask: Getting Real About Depression, Trauma,… : AJN The American Journal of Nursing

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A nurse and mother learns to be present, not perfect. View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 3 weeks ago 🗝️ CMS has proposed a 2.8% increase in payments for hospice care in 2024.🗝️ CMS has proposed continuing telehealth face-to-face recertification visits.See full text of proposal below. … See MoreSee Less public-inspection.federalregister.gov

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View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 3 weeks ago Imposing rules to monitor and ensure #compliance with #hospice regulations while simultaneously attempting to stay true to the mission of the hospice benefit is a delicate balance ⚖️ … See MoreSee Less LeadingAge to Congress: Reform Hospice Benefit, Fund Palliative Care

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The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 3 weeks ago 🗝️ Is your team using medical marijuana as a treatment for pain? What has your experience been? … See MoreSee Less Medical Marijuana Legalization and Opioid- and Pain-Related Outcomes Among Patients Newly Diagnosed With Cancer Receiving Anticancer Treatment – PubMed

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Findings of this cross-sectional study suggest that medical marijuana legalization implemented from 2012 to 2017 was associated with a lower rate of opioid dispensing and pain-related hospital events … View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 4 weeks ago 🗝️ High clinical turnover rates have strained hospice clinical capacity, reducing patient access to care.🗝️ How is your team handling turnover?🗝️ For those of you that have stuck around, what is your why and what has helped you?🗝️ What you do matters! … See MoreSee Less Photo View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 4 weeks ago 🗝️ We’re pretty smart, we humans. And yet … have we, without thinking, allowed ourselves to put so much faith in technology that we ignore the most fundamental truth about being human — that we remain mortal? Read more … See MoreSee Less On Learning How To Die

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The most marvelous questions about life can best be answered only by each of us in the context of our own lives, knowing that life is limited, say authors Irene Kacandes and Steve Gordon. View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 4 weeks ago 🗝️ Hospice saves Medicare money despite length of stay.🗝️ The right care at the right time is the right plan.🗝️ What you do matters! … See MoreSee Less Hospice Saves Medicare Upwards of $3.5B Annually, with Longer Stays Especially Valuable

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Despite years of scrutiny over the duration of hospice care, new data show that longer stays reduce health care costs in the last year of life by as much View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 1 month ago What have the past three years taught us about life and death? In a society that’s become increasingly uncomfortable talking about death, has the pandemic opened up new conversations and helped us to confront our discomfort?What role does faith play in our relationship with death, and how can we reimagine places of faith and spirituality for those with religious beliefs and those without?In this roundtable session, broadcaster Anneka Rice will be joined by faith leaders, researchers and philosophers to discuss these big questions. … See MoreSee Less A question of life and death | Anneka Rice, Kathryn Mannix

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What have the past three years taught us about life and death? In this round table session, we will be joined by faith leaders, researchers and philosophers to discuss the big questions. View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 1 month ago pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36469839/ … See MoreSee Less Use of Opioids for Adults With Pain From Cancer or Cancer Treatment: ASCO Guideline – PubMed

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Opioids should be offered to patients with moderate-to-severe pain related to cancer or active cancer treatment unless contraindicated. Opioids should be initiated PRN (as needed) at the lowest possib… View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 1 month ago m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=162182959979207&id=100085625110676&mibextid=ncKXMA … See MoreSee Less Opinion | Death Literacy Among Healthcare Professionals Is Dismal

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Greater education is the need of the hour View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 1 month ago www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/health/end-of-life-care-hospice.html … See MoreSee Less Aggressive Medical Care Remains Common at Life’s End

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Most older cancer patients received invasive care in the last month of their lives, a new study finds. That may not be what they wanted. View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 1 month ago www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493154/ … See MoreSee Less The Importance Of Cultural Competence in Pain and Palliative Care

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Managing pain is often a challenge for health professionals, but this challenge is compounded when the patient in pain is dying.[1] Practicing in an ethnically and culturally diverse society requires … View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 2 months ago pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28090619/ … See MoreSee Less The Evolving Approach to Management of Cancer Cachexia – PubMed

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Weight loss is distressing to cancer patients and caregivers. Anorexia/cachexia syndrome is characterized by lipolysis and the loss of lean body mass, and is not reversible by increasing caloric intak… View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Hospice Keys 2 months ago pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27664248/ … See MoreSee Less 2016 MASCC and ESMO guideline update for the prevention of chemotherapy- and radiotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting and of nausea and vomiting in advanced cancer patients – PubMed

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