Using #Hospice and #Palliative Preferred Practices to Create a Plan of Care. @pedagogymedical @hospiceheroes #nurseup #nursefriendly
Because of the complex needs of hospice and palliative care patients, clinicians must be able to construct a plan of care that will accurately chart a patient's progress towards outcomes that enhance his or her quality of life. To accomplish this important service, clinicians should employ a system of preferred practices to effectively assess, document, and manage the end of life needs of patients and their families.
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Gwenn Dalton, RN, Pro Hospice Solutions, LLC:"Pro Hospice Solutions, LLC understands that care is more than tending to the physical end of life; it is a way of caring for the patient, their family, and support group. Through our community outreach programs, continuing nursing education and continuing education workshops, we empower those care givers and end of life professionals with the ability to advance quality of life and to accept the gift of providing a compassionate end of life for their patient or loved one."
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CEO Pro Hospice Solutions, LLC
P.O. Box 327
Moody, TX 76557
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Tribute to a Hospice Nurse by E.V. Stankowski, RN, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"When it comes to death and dying
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Hospice, Palliative Care Nurses, Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow/STTI:"The hospice movement has evolved in the United States over the past 25 years. The focus of hospice care is on comprehensive physical, psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual care to terminally ill persons and their families. Hospice providers promote quality of life by protecting patients from burdensome interventions and providing care at home, whenever possibly, instead of the hospital. Hospice nurses provide care primarily under the guidelines of the Medicare Benefit Act of 1983, a federal program that allows patients to die in their homes with their families and friends at their side."
Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow/STTI
Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International
550 West North Street Indianapolis, IN 46202
bennison@stti.iupui.edu
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Kelly Brown, AASDN, RN, The Body Depot:"A Hydraulic fitness center that consists of a exercise circuit that can be performed by pre-teens to the elderly. A great way to prevent bone loss, feel good, maintain weight, prevent cardiopulmonary conditions, and socialize."
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Gerry A. Kinjorski, BS, RN, CLNC, Aidant Research Nurses, Inc., Florida Nursing Entrepreneurs:"Aidant Research Nurses, Inc., is a legal nurse consulting firm that serves the patient-client and the attorney. If you have questions concerning negligence or medical-malpractice, personal injury or assault, toxic tort, worker's comp or any medical injury you may need Aidant."
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American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Web:"Originally organized as the Academy of Hospice Physicians in 1988, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is the only organization in the United States for physicians dedicated to the advancement of hospice/palliative medicine, its practice, research and education."
4700 W. Lake Ave. Glenview, IL 60025-1485
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National Hospice Organization:"The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) is the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States. The organization is committed to improving end of life care and expanding access to hospice care with the goal of profoundly enhancing quality of life for people dying in America and their loved ones. Considered to be the model for quality, compassionate care at the end of life, hospice care involves a team-oriented approach of expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to the patient's wishes. Emotional and spiritual support also is extended to the family and loved ones. Generally, this care is provided in the patient's home or in a home-like setting operated by a hospice program. Medicare, private health insurance, and Medicaid in most states cover hospice care for patients who meet certain criteria."
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National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
1700 Diagonal Road, Suite 625 Alexandria, Virginia 22314
703/837-1500 (phone) 703/837-1233 (fax)
NHPCO Helpline: 800/658-8898
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http://www.nhpco.org/Aging with Dignity:"Something is terribly wrong: The majority of Americans want to die at home surrounded by family and friends, but most end up dying in the hospital or nursing home, cared for by strangers. Half of Americans die in pain that could have been treated. Sick people have come to fear losing their dignity or burdening their families more than they fear death. And this is all happening in a country that is meant to prize the rights of individuals and champion respect for personal wishes."
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- Africa, Hospice ...
- Hospice Africa Charity No 1024903 Helping to establish Hospice Care in Africa The aims of Hospice Africa are to provide or support the provision of palliative care to terminally ill cancer patients i...
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- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine...
- Originally organized as the Academy of Hospice Physicians in 1988, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is the only organization in the United States for physicians ...
32 Pages Found, 141 Links Found, 532 Score, http://www.aahpm.orgAmerican Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine:"Working together, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (ABHPM) achieved recognition for the subspecialty of hospice and palliative medicine by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). Beginning in 2008, cooperating boards within the ABMS will offer a subspecialty certificate in hospice and palliative medicine. A parallel certification will be offered by cooperating boards within the AOA. AAHPM will support ABHPM diplomates through the expiration of their ABHPM certificates."
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
4700 W. Lake Ave. Glenview, IL 60025
847/375-4712 Fax 847/375-6475 E-mail info@aahpm.org
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American Hospice Management; Hospice Management Firm... Since its founding in 1992 as the nation's first hospice management firm, AHM has grown to serve hospital-based, nursing home-based, and community-based hospice....
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Arizona State, Hospice of the Valley... Hospice of the Valley is celebrating 23 years of service in the valley. Since 1977, we have served more than 32,000 patients ranging in age from newborns to over 100. ...
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Arkansas Hospice Home Page... Enhancing the Quality of Life for the Terminally ill as a Charitable, Non-Profit Community Service Refer Donate Volunteer Get Involved About Arkansas Hospice In Home Care Hospice Center Care Get ...
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Association for Death Education and Counseling:"The Association for Death Education and Counseling®, The Thanatology Association®, is one of the oldest interdisciplinary organizations in the field of dying, death and bereavement. Its nearly 2,000 members include a wide array of mental and medical health personnel, educators, clergy, funeral directors and volunteers. ADEC offers numerous educational opportunities through its annual conference, courses and workshops, its certification program, and via its acclaimed publication, The Forum."
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Saturday, June 4, 2011
Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian Dies; Death With Dignity Proponent Remembered
Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian, otherwise known as "Doctor Death" fell victim Friday to a blood clot that released from his leg and lodged in his heart, assumed to be complications of kidney problems for which he was admitted to a hospital for in May of this year. He was 83 years of age.Kevorkian is most known for serving eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder starting in 1999. This resulted from a videotape he had made on September 17, 1998 which depicted the voluntary euthanasia of Thomas Youk, with the doctor's assistance by administering lethal injection.
Though his methods were controversial, the attention he prompted to the issue of "end of life" choices and "right to die" will only benefit patients as government agencies and lawmakers were forced to address the issues.
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Friday, April 22, 2011
More senior citizens are dying at home - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com
By John Dorschner
jdorschner@MiamiHerald.com
After years of experts and patients saying people at the end of life might be more comfortable dying at home, a new study says that may finally be happening: fewer seniors in the United States and South Florida are dying in hospitals.
But the same survey finds that in the last months of life for seniors throughout the United States and especially in Miami, the trend is for more of them to see large numbers of specialists and to spend more time in expensive intensive care units.
Those are the results of the latest study from the Dartmouth Atlas, a project of the Dartmouth Medical School. The project for years has been using Medicare data to expose anomalies in healthcare costs and wide geographic disparities in expenses.
“Miami is practically off the charts,” says David Goodman, a Dartmouth researcher who was the lead author of the study. “It really continues to stand out” for having the highest costs and most extensive treatments in the last months of life, even when adjusted for age, ethnicity, race and severity of illness.
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Palliative care can lead to higher quality of live and longer survival
by John Schumann, MD
Every once in awhile amidst the weekly deluge of medical articles comes a show-stopper that has the potential to change the way we practice.
Rarer yet is the article that not only changes how we practice, but calls into question why we do what we do.
This recent article from the New England Journal of Medicine is just such an article. Before you bolt, let me simplify it for you.
Here’s the quick take.The authors enrolled 150 patients with advanced lung cancer and split them up between usual care, which included chemotherapy, and an intervention arm, in which they received the same standard of care treatment plus early enrollment in palliative care.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
How to Say Goodbye | Saying Goodbye to a Dying Loved One | Caring.com
Here, those who've been through the experience of saying good-bye share what felt right to them -- and what they wish they'd done differently.
Lesson #1: Don't wait until the last minute
It's hard to say good-bye, but putting off meaningful conversations is perhaps the number-one source of regret. Time and again, families ask Massachusetts hospice nurse Maggie Callanan to tell them exactly when the final hour is approaching, so that they can time their good-byes. This is dangerous, she says, because it's impossible to predict the final breath. "Dying people have the uncanny ability to choose the moment of death, and it's not uncommon for them to spare those they love the most or feel protective of by waiting until those people leave the room," says the author of Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life, who has witnessed more than 2,000 deaths.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Helping patients experience death, PhillyBurbs.com:
A handful of local hospitals recently started volunteer programs that train ordinary people to sit with those who are alone and dying.
Angelo DeLorenzo spends many nights watching people as they die.
Occasionally, the person wants to talk, sometimes through the night. Often, the patient is unconscious, but DeLorenzo reads to him or her, plays the harp or sits quietly and prays.
Everyone deserves a good death, DeLorenzo believes. No one should die without someone there to hold a hand, whisper reassuring words and make sure the person is comfortable.
So DeLorenzo stays with these dying patients at St. Mary Medical Center, where he frequently takes the overnight shift. The Middletown hospital is one of a handful in the area that have started end-of-life programs, where ordinary people such as DeLorenzo, a chaplain intern, are trained to provide comfort care for people who have no close family available.
"No One Dies Alone" - the name of the program at St. Mary - originated at an Oregon hospital in 2001. It has since spread around the world. More than 1,100 hospitals and hospices have requested copies of the program's manual, said Carleen McCornack, coordinator of the mission center of Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, where the program started.
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These types of programs will go along way towards easing patients and family members into accepting the death of a loved one.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Discussing cancer treatment with the terminal patient, KevinMD.com
“Are you giving up on me?” My patient looks at me severely. “There must be other treatment options! Aren’t there some experimental drugs out there? I have beaten this cancer twice before. Are you saying that I can’t beat it again?”
No one can ever know with absolute certainty whether my patient’s newly recurrent cancer might miraculously disappear with one more treatment. His recurrence, however, has developed very quickly and is growing very rapidly. New cancer nodules are developing weekly. I have never seen a patient with a cancer this aggressive have a meaningful, sustained response to further treatment. The research literature confirms my impression.
It is always difficult to know what to recommend. Although “no further treatment” is always an alternative, I routinely run through all of the options, reviewing whatever is available, and hoping that we land on the combination that offers that improbable, one-in-a-thousand cure. However unlikely, we sometimes set up appointments and hope for the best.
Today, though, my sense is that it is time to focus on new goals.
The decision not to pursue more studies and more treatment can be very, very difficult. Surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande in an essay in The New Yorker entitled “Letting Go,” writes about how difficult it can be for physicians and patients to halt cancer treatment as the end of life draws near. The dilemma, he concludes, “arises from a still unresolved argument about what the function of medicine really is — what, in other words, we should and should not be paying for doctors to do.” In Gawande’s view, the profession should equip and supply doctors and nurses “who are willing to have the hard discussions and say what they have seen …”
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
The cost of keeping the terminally ill alive, KevinMD.com
Last year, Medicare paid $55 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients’ lives.
And it has been estimated that 20 to 30 percent of these medical expenses may have had no meaningful impact. Most of the bills are paid for by the federal government with few or no questions asked. This statistic is from a 60 Minutes story on “The Cost of Dying” and is one reason our healthcare system is in trouble.
Modern medicine has become so good at keeping the terminally ill alive by treating the complications of underlying disease that the inevitable process of dying has become much harder and is often prolonged unnecessarily. The way we set up the system right now, primary care physicians don’t have time to spend an hour with you, see how you respond, if they wanted to adjust your medication. So, the easiest thing for everybody up the stream is to admit you to the hospital. And once someone is admitted to the hospital they’re likely to be seen by a dozen or more specialists who will conduct all kinds of tests, whether they’re absolutely essential or not
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Cancer patients die too often in hospitals, study says - The Boston Globe
Researchers at the Dartmouth Atlas Project in Lebanon, N.H., analyzed the records of 235,821 Medicare patients ages 65 and older who died between 2003 and 2007. Overall, the researchers found that one-third of patients spent their last days in hospitals and intensive-care units. But there was a big range. At one end was Manhattan, where 46.7 percent died in the hospital. In contrast, 7 percent of cancer patients died in the hospital in Mason City, Iowa.
While chemotherapy and other aggressive procedures can prolong life and enable some cancer patients to return home and to work, studies have shown that these treatments have little or no value for frail elderly patients and those with advanced cancer. But 6 percent of patients received chemotherapy in their last two weeks of life, and the rate was much higher — more than 10 percent — in some places, the researchers found.
Similarly, more than 18 percent of cancer patients were placed on a feeding tube or received cardiopulmonary resuscitation in their last two weeks of life in Manhattan, compared with less than 4 percent in Minneapolis.
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Monday, November 22, 2010
Veterans: Traumas resurface at end-of-life - UPI.com
U.S. researchers have tailored a program to help veterans whose traumas resurface at end-of-life.
Researchers led by Dr. Joshua Hauser of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and Dr. Amos Bailey of the University of Alabama at Birmingham have developed a program they say is tailored to meet veterans' end-of-life needs.
"Many veterans, at the end of their lives, struggle with issues related to a traumatic event they had during their time in service," Bailey says in a statement. "They may have had a physical or emotional disability related to their time in service."
In addition to dealing with battle experiences, the new program -- Education on Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Veterans Project -- addresses sexual trauma and substance abuse during service, as well as how the particular war in which a veteran served affects both emotional and physical care, and other issues.
"Because these war memories come up more frequently near the end of life, palliative care providers need to be alert for these issues," Hauser says. "We want to show healthcare professionals how someone's individual war memories come up and how those can be talked about."
The program, which began in October, is scheduled to be introduced in 170 Veterans Administration Medical Centers around the country during the next 12 months.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
Make-A-Wish Foundation : About Us
Welcome to Wish.org, the online home of the nation’s largest wish-granting organization. Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation® has given hope, strength and joy to children with life-threatening medical conditions. From our humble beginnings with one boy’s wish to be a police officer, we’ve evolved into an organization that grants a child’s wish in the U.S. every 40 minutes.
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
Death, Dying, End of Life, Hospice, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories
Death, Dying, End of Life, Hospice, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"Occasionally, we are graced with the presence of an earth bound Angel. They are unable to stay with us for long, but while they do, they bring unprecedented joy and happiness to all they touch."
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