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Education is the backbone of home health care, says Eileen McFadden, BSN, MN, manager of educational services at VNA Home Health Care Services in Spokane, WA. It is through education that the patient's goals and outcomes are met.
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Hospice nursing work is different from the typical health care experience, but how often has it become rote and driven by schedules and regulatory tensions?
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The controversy surrounding Coretta Scott King's recent death at a Mexican alternative care clinic known for promoting unorthodox cancer treatments obscured a fact that hit home for hospices...
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Home health nurses see it all of the time & patients don't want to lose their independence so they don't tell anyone if they experience changes in their mobility, memory or vision.
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For many patients dying of cancer, home is where they want to spend the last weeks of their lives. Their caregivers and often spouses, life partners or children and may be willing to give whatever care their loved one needs ...
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In 1992, the hospice formed a staff diversity committee that worked with consultants and devised a mission statement and objectives, says Shareefah Sabur, MNO, director of planning and evaluation.
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The Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) has issued a position statement rejecting current administration policy promoting abstinence-only education for young people, urging U.S. educators to present abstinence as one important option in an overall sexual health prevention strategy.
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If faced with the threat of SARS, avian flu or another epidemic, most Americans would consider quarantine a good idea but they wouldnt approve of strong enforcement. That is one American attitude toward quarantine described by Harvard public health researchers who studied U.S. attitudes about quarantine.
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