Hospice Management Advisor articles from November 2006

Hospice Management Advisor archives from November 2006

Palliative Care Initiatives: Palliative care project reaps many benefits, including help for renal patients.(Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care Program)
November 1, 2006... Palliative Care Initiatives [Editor's note: In this issue of Hospice Management Advisor there are two articles about palliative care and its intersection with hospice among some chronic diseases. There will be more articles on the topic in...

Palliative Care Initiatives: End-stage renal disease patients need hospice care.
November 1, 2006... Palliative Care Initiatives End-stage renal disease patients need hospice care Health providers need more education Renal disease patients live only one-third as long as persons who do not have kidney disease, and they typically...

Telehospice support may work in assisting caregivers.
November 1, 2006... Telehospice support may work in assisting caregivers Caregivers found it useful A project using videophones found that their quality was satisfactory, and participants found the telehospice form of communication to be useful.1 "We...

Get more by adopting technological advances.(Hospices use technology)
November 1, 2006... Get more by adopting technological advances Telehealth offers new ways to improve bottom line Hospice agencies still provide personalized care for patients in their homes, just as they always have, but technological advances have...

Show the value of telemedicine services.
November 1, 2006... Show the value of telemedicine services Offer free 'trials' to establish credibility Three years ago, Visiting Nurse Services of the Northwest in Mountlake Terrace, WA, began offering telemedicine services to a wide range of patients....

E-learning makes it easy to meet requirements.(E-learning for home care services)
November 1, 2006... E-learning makes it easy to meet requirements Tests ensure documentation of competency No one enjoys watching a video of a talking head and, even if you know the course is required, it is hard to learn the material when you are...

SBAR checklist outlines what to say at handoff.(Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... SBAR checklist outlines what to say at handoff This is the basic framework of the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation) checklist developed by Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA, to improve patient safety when handing...