Using Simulation to Build a Stronger End-of-Life Nursing Workforce
Preparing and retaining nurses for end-of-life care is no longer just a clinical priority; it is a strategic imperative for every hospice and palliative organization. Nurses at the bedside of dying patients carry an enormous emotional, ethical, and technical load:...
The Leadership Bottleneck: Delegation Feels Risky? How to Do it Right!
Leaders rarely fail because they don’t know they should delegate. Almost everyone in a leadership role has heard the advice countless times: “You can’t do it all yourself.” Yet in practice, delegation remains one of the hardest skills to master. The problem isn’t...
Mastering Hospice Online Reputation: A Practical Playbook for Home-Based Care
In the deeply personal world of hospice care, an agency’s digital presence is often the first, and most important, introduction a family has to the organization. A hospice agency must place significant focus on managing its online reputation. The Intimacy of In-Home...
Improving your Organization with FAST Goals
Goals have come to dominate our modern workplace. Goals are a way of breaking down business plans into smaller more manageable pieces. This enables an organization to accomplish some of the targets and plans that were specified during their planning cycle....
Legal Risks of Retaliation: How to Handle Employee Complaints Safely
When an employee brings forward a compliance concern, they’re engaging in what the law defines as protected activity. This might involve reporting a potential violation of hospice regulations, concerns about Medicare fraud, or even raising issues about unsafe working...
Pay Transparency: What Managers Need to Know
As a manager in hospice care, your role goes beyond overseeing patient care and managing staff. It includes ensuring that your team feels valued and fairly compensated. Pay transparency is becoming a hot topic, and understanding its implications can help you...
Elevate Your Hiring with Powerful Demographic Insights
Creating and using benchmarks to compare your company's hiring demographics against those used by government agencies like the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) is crucial. Benchmarking helps ensure that your company’s hiring practices are fair and...
How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Workforce
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the workplace. It offers immense potential for employers to enhance efficiency, decision-making, and overall performance. However, as AI is increasingly integrated into hiring decisions and other HR functions, employers...
Measuring and monitoring employee sentiment
How can your hospice organization find out what your employees are thinking? How do you know if your employees are satisfied? Dissatisfied? How do you know if employee satisfaction varies across different agencies in your organization? Do you have a systemic problem...
Leadership and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory that can be used to provide leaders and organizations with guidance on how to motivate employees. But what is this hierarchy and what is Maslow’s theory? What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? Maslow developed his theory on the...