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Knowledge Point Articles
Welcome to Knowledge Point, the quarterly eNewsletter for health care providers. Our mission is to share clinical and regulatory expertise from the health care community with you. If you would like to subscribe to Briggs Knowledge Point Articles for Hospice, please email us at HomeCare@BriggsCorp.com with your request.
July 2007
End-of-Life Therapy Techniques Used in Hospice Care
With hospice patients and their families, different types of healing therapy may be used to enhance communication, decrease depression and pain, encourage personal insight and provide opportunities for reconciliation and empowerment.
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April 2007
Hospice Care or Palliative Care
Each year, about one million families facing life-threatening illnesses struggle to make the critical decisions that affect the longevity and quality of life.
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March 2007
Effective Pain Management at the End of Life
Chronic diseases cause a host of symptoms that cause suffering. Of these, pain is the most common and most feared symptom.
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February 2007
Quality Partners-Quality Initiatives in Hospice
The new quality initiative for hospice, much like the quality indicators in home care has been rolled out by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
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January 2007
Interdisciplinary Plan of Care: Patient-Specific
Documentation is Needed
The development of a patient-specific plan of care begins at the time of the referral. This is when you begin to identify the care needs and requirements of the patient and his or her family.
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December 2006
Outcome Measurements in Hospice
The proposed Conditions of Participation (CoPs) are going to be geared toward measuring performance as well as measuring your operations.
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September 2006
Complimentary Therapies and Pain Management:
How Do We Integrate Them Into Practice?
As nurses caring for our patients, we are very concerned about their levels of comfort. Is there something more we can incorporate into our practices to help alleviate suffering?
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August 2006
Nutrition and the Terminally Ill
It is difficult for family members to understand that by putting pressure on their loved one and attempting to force consumption, they are not prolonging life and may actually increase suffering.
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June 2006
Stages, Signs and Symptoms of Approaching Death
Although death is a uniquely individual experience, there are some common stages, signs and symptoms that are important to explore and understand.
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April 2006
Communicating with the Seriously Ill and Dying
As we visit our patients, we need to take a step back and put ourselves in their shoes. One way of doing this more effectively is to look at some of the fears they are experiencing.
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March 2006
The Meaning of Hospice and Palliative Care
It is a kind of care that is both a philosophy of care and a highly structured system for delivering care. It expands traditional disease-based medical treatments to include the goals of enhancing quality of life for the patient and family.
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February 2006
Outcome Measurements in Hospice
The proposed Conditions of Participation (CoPs) are going to be geared toward measuring performance as well as measuring your operations. One of the requirements the proposed CoPs are focusing on is Quality Assessment Performance Improvement …
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January 2006
Pain Management
The goal of patient and family education is to involve them in the management of their loved one’s pain.
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