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While nurses and physicians have their roles to play in palliative care of dying patients, social workers also have a responsibility for assisting in pain management, experts say.
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Hospices can improve staff motivation and retention once administrators adopt a policy of open communication and mutual respect, an expert advises.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) relaxed some rules and requirements for home health agencies that provide care to patients who were relocated as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
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Palliative care programs are growing in number and prominence at hospitals and hospices across the nation, as increasing numbers of health care providers want to focus on medicine ...
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If there is anything positive that comes out of the natural disasters of recent years, including hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it's the lessons hospices and other health care providers have learned about disaster planning.
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Whether a hospice is situated in a hurricane, earthquake, fire, flood, or tornado zone there's a lot managers can do to prepare for a disaster.
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Hospices have had to deal with the periodic nursing shortages for decades, but California arguably has one of the most challenging problems ...
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The hospital discharge planner calls your admission department about a patient for whom the physician ordered home care. Sounds like it is just business as usual, doesn't it?
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In 2001, the PROWESS trial of 1690 patients with severe sepsis1 demonstrated that a 96-hour infusion of activated protein C, or drotrecogin alfa (activated) (DrotAA, Xigris®) at 24 g/kg/h decreased mortality at 28 days from 30.8% to 24.4% (P = 0.005).
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Standard teaching advocates placing a chest tube on water seal in patients with a prior hemothorax or pneumothorax and obtaining a chest radiograph (CXR) the following morning.
