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An array of sling choices are available, enabling nurses and nursing assistants to use lift equipment even with patients with delicate medical conditions.
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When it comes to influenza immunization, there's something to be said for a little one-on-one attention.
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Past traumatic experiences can result in current physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms among hospice patients.
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True or false: If a male caregiver/family member doesn't show any emotion, then he is coping well with his grief over his loved one's dying.
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Three different therapy thresholds, a new payment model for non-routine medical supplies, and additional questions for OASIS are just a few of the changes in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Home Health Prospective Payment System (HHPPS) for 2008.
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Hospice professionals need to be aware that end-of-life patients sometimes are dealing with post-traumatic stress from previous traumas, whether they served in a war or were abused as children. These buried memories and feelings can complicate physical symptoms, including patients' pain and suffering.
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What makes an award-winning palliative care program? In the case of the program at the University of California at San Francisco, it's the combination of a collaborative approach to individualized patient care; extensive use of hospitalists; and a program that educates practicing physicians and medical, nursing, and pharmacy students and residents.
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As many providers already know, the so-called "Stark law" prohibits physicians from making referrals to providers who render "designated health services" (DHS), if referring physicians have an ownership or investment interest in, or compensation arrangement with, the provider.
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