Hospice Management Advisor articles from April 2006

Hospice Management Advisor archives from April 2006

Coping skills intervention improves quality of life and reduces stress of caregivers.
April 1, 2006... Coping skills intervention improves quality of life and reduces stress of caregivers Intervention requires 3 brief sessions New research shows that a three-session, educational intervention with caregivers of cancer patients in hospice...

Decrease hospice denial rates through documentation education.
April 1, 2006... Decrease hospice denial rates through documentation education Hospice shows how to support limited prognosis A Pennsylvania hospice reduced its denial rate by more than 80 percent after instituting a formal educational program that...

Caregiver Manual Offers Tips on Caring for Cancer Patients.
April 1, 2006... Caregiver Manual Offers Tips on Caring for Cancer Patients Researchers created a simple, three-visit intervention to assist caregivers of cancer patients who are in hospice because of advanced cancer. Part of the intervention includes a...

Hospice partners with university to provide education for nurses.
April 1, 2006... Hospice partners with university to provide education for nurses Collaboration benefits all sides When the West Virginia School of Nursing needed a new instructor for its parish nursing Internet class, the woman who had been teaching...

Cut hospitalization rates with 24-hour availability, visits at start of care.
April 1, 2006... Cut hospitalization rates with 24-hour availability, visits at start of care Top performers share best practices in national study (Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series that addresses reduction of hospitalization and...

JCAHO Alert Addresses Medication Errors.
April 1, 2006... JCAHO Alert Addresses Medication Errors More than 10% of all sentinel events reported to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) relate to medication error; but in home care, over 13% of sentinel events...

Preceptors can improve retention of new nurses.
April 1, 2006... Preceptors can improve retention of new nurses Individualized programs create better results A new job can be overwhelming no matter what industry you may choose, but when the new job is in home care, saying that the job is...