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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Patient Safety: A Success Story, (A great example of why nurse intimidation can be lethal) @patiyer #nurseup #nursefriendly

Patient Safety: A Success Story, (A great example of why nurse intimidation can be lethal) #nurseup #nursefriendly:”Prevention of medical errors starts with correct medical orders and diagnosis. When that does not happen, the healthcare team is expected to question orders that are incorrect and don’t make sense. This narration tells the story of a patient injured in a car accident, a failure to diagnose a lung injury, and an order written by a physician that needed to be questioned.”

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Sunday, December 11, 2011

#Hospice, Death, Dying, #EndofLife, #Palliative Care, @hospiceheroes @terirnbsn @theyoganurse @nursewingpoems #nursefriendly

The Shortcut URL To This Section Is: http://www.4nursing.com/hospice/

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Inspirational Categories: Bereavement, Grief, Loss, Sorrow, Death, Dying, End of Life, Hospice Poems, Parents & Parenting, Religious Poems, Christian Stories

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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."
Gwenn Dalton, RN
CEO Pro Hospice Solutions, LLC
P.O. Box 327
Moody, TX 76557
254-853-9903 (office) / 254-853-9966 (fax)
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http://www.prohospicesolutions.com/

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Teri Yarbrough, RN
Gainesville, GA, United States
I am a Travel Nurse specializing in Hospice. I grew up in a Navy family spending time in Guam, Iceland, & Italy. Then married my husband who was a sailor. I have 3 children, Heather, 25; Bear, 23; & BJ (our 4 legged child, a chocolate lab)2. My faith in my Lord Jesus Christ helps get through each day & to minister to my patients. I had gastric bypass 9/11/06. Have lost 150lbs."
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Annette Tersigni RN, Yoga Nursing®:"I am the founder of Yoga Nurse Medical Yoga and Stress Management and am the creator of the enlightening new field of Yoga Nursing® and the Yoga Nursing Institute. Yoga Nursing is the marriage of modern nursing science with the ancient science of yoga. My programs are endorsed by lots of doctors and health care providers as a safe therapy to decrease pain and suffering and help folks to find peace instead of going to pieces. I have dedicated the past 16 years educating people around the world on leading healthier, spiritual lifestyles and with a dose of tough love and loads of laughter helped them to WAKE UP and GET CONSCIOUS NOW.

I am a sought after no barriers heart felt speaker, coach, teacher and writer and am featured extensively in the media including in the Associated Press and on NBC, CBS, Fox News affiliates and have been interviewed on national TV by Arielle Ford as one of America's Experts. I am producing, writing, and acting in several DVD documentary/educational projects: I am training and coaching other nurses, yoga teachers and health professionals throughout the USA and Canada to be Yoga Nursing Therapists and I lead fantabulous Yoga and Juice fasting Makeover Retreats on the magnificent Pyrate laden Crystal Coast of North Carolina. My programs our hip, conscious, filled with hilarious humor, enlightening and designed to inspire and leave a legacy. This is the most prolific, jamming and juicy time of my life and I get to do it all by serving others. SERVING RULES!"
Street Address: 103 short st apt. E
Beaufort, North Carolina, 28516
E-mail Address: theyoganurse@gmail.com
Phone: 252.725.1924
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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
There's a special gift you share
One that Angels all admire
One that goes beyond just care

http://www.inspirationalnursing.com/hn

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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
http://www.nursesource.org/hospice.html

About.com: Death & Dying, Poetry, Blessings, Toasts, Quotes, Prayers and Words of Comfort:"Sometimes, it seems that all you need is the right quote, poem or inspirational message at the right moment to help provide perspective, insight and aid in surviving a loss or crisis. When coping with a death, a significant loss or crisis, it can help to read the words from others who have "been there," coped and survived. This section contains comforting poems and quotes that may be helpful when writing eulogies or obituaries, or used in memorial services, blessing helpful in the healing process, quotes about death and dying and famous last words."
http://dying.about.com/

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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
(847)375-4712, tmckissack@amctec.com
http://www.aahpm.org/

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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."
http://www.agingwithdignity.org/

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Choice In Dying...
...the nation's experts on end-of-life care Choice In Dying, the inventor of living wills in 1967, is dedicated to fostering communication about complex end-of-life decisions. The nonprofit organizat...
http://www.choices.org

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Hospice Patients Alliance: Consumer Advocates...
Hospice Patients Alliance is a consumer advocacy resource center for hospice patients, families, caregivers; promoting hospice patient rights, revealing what NO hospice will tell you; providing inform...
http://www.hospicepatients.org

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Perinatal Hospice/Supportive Care for the Dying Unborn Infant:"Perinatal hospice provides supportive care for parents and the infant with a serious or fatal birth defect both before and after birth. Most people think of hospice as applying to the elderly or at least adults. It has also been extended to children and even to babies. But it was Dr. Byron Calhoun of Madigan Army Hospital who developed the concept of perinatal hospice."
Supportive Care of the Dying: A Coalition for Compassionate Care Founded in 1994 c/o Providence Health System Sylvia McSkimming, PhD, RN, Executive Director
4805 NE Glisan Street,2E07 Portland, Oregon 97213
tel: (503) 215-5053 fax: (503) 215-5054 e-mail: Sylvia.McSkimming@providence.org
http://perinatalhospice.org/

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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...
13 Pages Found, 1 Links Found, 551 Score, http://hospice-africa.merseyside.org

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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.org

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American 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
http://www.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....
3 Pages Found, 0 Links Found, 1764 Score, http://www.americanhospice.com

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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. ...
21 Pages Found, 7 Links Found, 183 Score, http://www.hov.org

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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 ...
32 Pages Found, 30 Links Found, 678 Score, http://www.arkansashospice.org

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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."
ADEC Headquarters
111 Deer Lake Road, Suite 100
Deerfield, IL 60015 USA
Phone or Fax:
Phone 847-509-0403
Fax: 847-480-9282
http://www.adec.org

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Hospice of the Conejo:"Hospice of the Conejo is a team of caring people who are dedicated to providing a special blend of compassion and practical and emotional support to patients with life-limiting illnesses and to their families. Our focus is on living - helping people during the final stages of life to make the most of every hour. Our service area covers Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Newbury Park, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Agoura, Oak Park, and Calabasas, California. We are a non-profit agency and all services are provided free-of-charge."
Hospice of the Conejo, 80 East Hillcrest Dr., Thousand Oaks, CA (805)495-2145 hospice@adnetsol.com
http://www.hospiceoftheconejo.org

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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Health Experts & Patient Advocates Beware: 10 Reasons Why you Shouldn’t be a Curator at Organized Wisdom!! #OrganizedWisdom « Laika's MedLibLog

Organized Wisdom shares health links of health experts or advocates, who (according to OW’s FAQ), either requested a profile or were recommended by OW’s Medical Review Board. I was one of those so called Expert Curators. However, I had never requested a profile and I seriously doubt whether someone from the a medical board had actually read any of my tweets or my blog posts.

This was one of the many issues with Organized Wisdom. But the main issue was its lack of credibility and transparency. I vented my complaints, I removed my profile from OW, stopped following updates at Twitter and informed some fellow curators.

I almost forgot about it, till Simon Sikorski, MD, commented at my blog, informing me that my complaints hadn’t been fully addressed and convincing me things were even worse than I thought.

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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Silent Treatment Study, silenttreatmentstudy.com #rnchat #nursing #nurses

Research and regulatory bodies have long confirmed that poor communication in healthcare is harmful at best and deadly at worst.

In the 2005 study, Silence Kills, VitalSmarts and the AACN found that 84 percent of healthcare professionals observe colleagues take dangerous shortcuts when working with patients and yet less than 10 percent speak up about their concerns.

Since that time, the healthcare community has turned to safety tools and checklists to reduce unintentional slips and errors. And yet, a new study called The Silent Treatment has found that the effectiveness of safety tools is undercut by undiscussables. Every day, healthcare professionals are making calculated decisions to not speak up—even when safety tools alert them to potential harm.

The Silent Treatment reveals that despite the safety interventions taken in the last decade, silence still kills. Safety tools do not compensate for crucial conversations failures in the hospital.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

How podcasts can help patients with health literacy, KevinMD.com

by Robert Rodvien, MD

When a person is told that they have a serious illness, they are similar to Alice falling down the rabbit hole.

They enter a bewildering new world of discussions, tests and treatment programs that must be navigated while maintaining a job, life obligations, and relationships with friends and family. Just when a person needs more resilience to stress, anxiety can occur. The ability to function is often diminished in such a state, and, like Alice, many begin to grope for solutions. Patients, family members and friends begin to rely on anecdotes. Others find hope-based messages more acceptable than evidence-based ones. Some patients are willing to do anything that appears constructive even if there is no evidence of success.

Some patients seek to become experts in their field of illness and venture on-line to do so, but entering the world of medicine on-line often creates misguided but nonetheless strongly held beliefs. Much of the accessible material is jargon and advertising rather than unbiased information. Web sites and brochures are rife with marketing language to promote a hospital, company or pharmaceutical product, leaving many who seek information as wary consumers instead of informed patients.

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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Sunday, May 1, 2011

What Nurses Wish You Knew - Philadelphia Magazine - phillymag.com

No matter what health-care reform winds up looking like, one thing’s certain: Nurses will play a bigger role than ever, taking over duties from doctors, moving out of hospitals and into the community, looking after frail aging boomers, leading the push to keep costs down and improve outcomes. So this seemed the perfect time for a consult with the people who really run health care in Philadelphia. As one nurse told us, “Doctors only think they’re the quarterbacks.” Here’s what nurses had to say about their work, their patients, life and death, and those little white caps they used to wear.

1 // It’s okay to buzz // Really. Go ahead. Room too cold? Need a pillow? Got a question about your meds? Use the buzzer; that’s why they put it there. “My 82-year-old mother was just in the hospital for a stroke,” says Presbyterian Hospital’s Michael Becker, “and she said, ‘I can only hit the buzzer two times a day.’ I asked, ‘Why is that?’ and she said, ‘Because they’re going to get tired of seeing me.’ I said, “No, no, Mom, it doesn’t work that way.’” If somebody’s pushing the buzzer all the time, nurses know there’s a deeper issue and work to address it.

2 // You don’t have to be afraid // Nurses understand that patients often don’t speak up because they feel vulnerable. But when we don’t voice our thoughts, they have no way of knowing what needs improvement—until the patient-satisfaction survey arrives after the fact. And they hate finding out there was something they could have fixed if they’d known about it. “It’s natural to be fearful,” says Pennsylvania Hospital’s Mary Del Guidice, “because you’re lying in bed with all these faces looking down at you. But don’t be afraid of us.”

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Nyack Hospital's Code H Spells Safety and Satisfaction | New Jersey Nursing News

Nyack Hospital, Nyack, N.Y., has launched a system where patients and their visitors can trigger levels of rapid response. Impetus for the innovation came after the well-publicized medical error that ended in the death of 18-month-old Josie King at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md., and the resulting focus on patient and family involvement in acute care.

Although patients and families can use the system to alert staff about potential emergency situations, such as chest pain, it also offers the reassurance that help is nearby. This is in case patients experience delays in bedside care, pain medications, and more, according to Ginni Norton, RN, MS, Nursing Performance Improvement, Nyack Hospital, a member of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System.

A team approach

Nyack Hospital patients and their visitors can call 3-1-1-1, which goes directly to hospital operators. The operators have been trained to ask callers questions according to an algorithm. Callers who report something physiological, such as bleeding or chest pain, are be routed immediately to rapid response. The call can trigger a team, including the nurse manager from the patient's unit, house physician, respiratory therapist, critical care nurse, and pharmacist.

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Spinal Injury Recovery Foundation - Home

The Need for Spinal Injury Recovery Foundation

A family never plans on having a member severely injure their spine. While in intensive care, families face the extreme shock of suddenly having to arrange for long-term rehabilitation and around-the-clock care for their loved one. In Las Vegas, these families currently have little or no resources available to guide them through a myriad of crucial decisions that will impact the outcome of their loved one's long-term recovery.

Founder's Story

No one knows this better than Scott Frost, founder of SIRF, father, fiancé, loving son and entrepreneur. On May 10, 2009, Scott was injured in an off-road dirt bike accident that damaged his spinal cord and left him paralyzed from the neck down. What started as a day of fun in the hills south of Henderson Executive Airport turned into a near-fatal chain of events. [Read Scott's complete story here.]

SIRF's Origin

During the 70 days Scott spent in Las Vegas' Desert Canyon Rehabilitation Hospital, he watched other patients who didn't have the help of friends and family like he had. Many had given up hope for their futures. "It made me furious that this could happen in this day and age." I don't want anyone to have to go through the hopelessness of being so alone and distraught. I was surrounded by loved ones. I can't imagine if I hadn't had that.

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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault: English: Home

"Every day, women, men, and children across America suffer the pain and trauma of sexual assault. From verbal harassment and intimidation to molestation and rape, this crime occurs far too frequently, goes unreported far too often, and leaves long-lasting physical and emotional scars. During National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we recommit ourselves not only to lifting the veil of secrecy and shame surrounding sexual violence, but also to raising awareness, expanding support for victims, and strengthening our response." President Obama's Proclamation on Sexual Assault Awareness Month
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month Events in Illinois Communities
What is ICASA?
The Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault (ICASA) is a not-for-profit corporation of 33 community-based sexual assault crisis centers working together to end sexual violence. Each center provides 24-hour crisis intervention services, counseling and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and their significant others. Each center presents prevention education
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Friday, April 15, 2011

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