Hospice Management Advisor Archives – November 1, 2006
November 1, 2006
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Palliative Care Initiatives: Palliative care project reaps many benefits, including help for renal patients
What does it take to make progress in improving end-of-life care for people impacted by chronic diseases? The answer: a little seed money from a foundation and a meeting room full of dedicated and energetic health care professionals. -
Palliative Care Initiatives: End-stage renal disease patients need hospice care
Renal disease patients live only one-third as long as persons who do not have kidney disease, and they typically have many co-morbidities, including diabetes, heart failure, high blood pressure, and circulatory problems. -
Telehospice support may work in assisting caregivers
A project using videophones found that their quality was satisfactory, and participants found the telehospice form of communication to be useful. -
Get more by adopting technological advances
Hospice agencies still provide personalized care for patients in their homes, just as they always have, but technological advances have improved the way that agencies manage and documents that care. -
Show the value of telemedicine services
Three years ago, Visiting Nurse Services of the Northwest in Mountlake Terrace, WA, began offering telemedicine services to a wide range of patients. -
E-learning makes it easy to meet requirements
No one enjoys watching a video of a talking head and, even if you know the course is required, it is hard to learn the material when you are thinking about fighting traffic to get home or about how boring or out of date the video is. -
SBAR checklist outlines what to say at handoff
This is the basic framework of the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation) checklist developed by Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA.