The document summarizes the 3rd edition of the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines. It was created by a consortium of six palliative care organizations to improve palliative care quality in the US. The guidelines provide recommendations for interdisciplinary palliative care delivery across various clinical domains and settings. The 3rd edition features expanded recommendations regarding palliative care delivery requirements and quality standards based on recent healthcare reforms and evidence.
Hospice & Palliative Care Missouri Health Net Aug 2009Christian Sinclair
Presentation to Missouri HealthNet (State Medicaid Program) about hospice and palliative care issues. Please see accompanying handout for facts presented in presentation.
Hospice care and palliative care: Is there a difference between the two, and if so, what?
Many people still think that palliative care means hospice care. But today, hospice is only a small part of palliative care.
The goal of palliative care is to prevent or treat the symptoms and side effects of a disease; and it should be part of the picture from the first day a serious illness is diagnosed.
Dr. Jim Meadows, Director of Hospice and Palliative Care at Tennessee Oncology, will discuss this important topic. How does a family and a health care team best work together to guide a patient through a terminal illness? How does everyone continue to support quality, patient-centered, end-of-life care?
A lecture given at a Primary Care Conference in Massachusetts - on the important role primary care physicians could play in ensuring good palliative care for patients, communication, hospice, myths & realities
We will cover the topic of Palliative Care – specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.
Presented by Dr. Jean S. Kutner, MD, MSPH a tenured Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine (GIM), Geriatric Medicine, and Health Care Policy and Research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (UC SOM)
I didn't know this option of Palliative care existed prior to my mother's passing earlier this year of colorectal cancer. However, I do now know about it and want to share it with all of you
Hospice & Palliative Care Missouri Health Net Aug 2009Christian Sinclair
Presentation to Missouri HealthNet (State Medicaid Program) about hospice and palliative care issues. Please see accompanying handout for facts presented in presentation.
Hospice care and palliative care: Is there a difference between the two, and if so, what?
Many people still think that palliative care means hospice care. But today, hospice is only a small part of palliative care.
The goal of palliative care is to prevent or treat the symptoms and side effects of a disease; and it should be part of the picture from the first day a serious illness is diagnosed.
Dr. Jim Meadows, Director of Hospice and Palliative Care at Tennessee Oncology, will discuss this important topic. How does a family and a health care team best work together to guide a patient through a terminal illness? How does everyone continue to support quality, patient-centered, end-of-life care?
A lecture given at a Primary Care Conference in Massachusetts - on the important role primary care physicians could play in ensuring good palliative care for patients, communication, hospice, myths & realities
We will cover the topic of Palliative Care – specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.
Presented by Dr. Jean S. Kutner, MD, MSPH a tenured Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine (GIM), Geriatric Medicine, and Health Care Policy and Research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (UC SOM)
I didn't know this option of Palliative care existed prior to my mother's passing earlier this year of colorectal cancer. However, I do now know about it and want to share it with all of you
A Palliative Approach in Residential Care Settings (March 2014)Joan Trinh Pham
A basic presentation presentation on the topic of applying a palliative approach to residential care settings for elders + their families. It covers a review of palliative care + terminology then distinguishing between specialized palliative care + an a palliative approach. Emphasis is placed upon goals of care conversations as the primary means to integrate a palliative approach to care for elders.
Palliative Care Across the Continuum as presented to the The Palliative Care Summit for PeopleFirst Homecare and Hospice that was held in Snowbird Utah on September 15, 2012, following the Rocky Mountain Geriatric Conference.
Hospice Care - Is It Right for You or Your Loved One?Theresa Lynn
This presentation from Wings of Hope Hospice in Allegan, Michigan describes the benefits of hospice care, when hospice care might be appropriate and the geographic area Wings of Hope serves.
Palliative care is an approach to care which improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness.
Provider Based Patient Engagement - An Essential Strategy for Population HealthPhytel
As the healthcare industry starts to re-engineer care delivery to accommodate new reimbursement models, providers on the front lines of change recognize the need for population health management and for increasing patients’ engagement in their own care. These two approaches are inextricably bound together, because it is impossible to manage the health of a population without getting patients more involved in self-management and the modification of their own risk factors. This paper discusses the fundamentals of patient engagement and shows how automation tools and web-based care management can facilitate this key process.
Living as Well as you Can for As Long as you CanBCCPA
Sit down buffet breakfast featuring keynote speaker Dr. Romayne Gallagher, Head Division of Palliative Care, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Providence Health Care; Clinical Professor, Division of Palliative Care, UBC
Engines of Success for U.S. Health Reform?
Eric B. Larson, MD, MPHVice President for Research, Group Health Executive Director, Group Health Research Institute
This is the presentation Victor Montori (KER UNIT, Healthcare Delivery Research Program, Mayo Clinic) gave at the Normalization Process Theory symposium at King's Fund, London, UK on October 22, 2010.
SHARE Presentation: Palliative Care for Womenbkling
Dr. Michael Pearl discusses supportive palliative care for women with cancer, how it differs from hospice care, and the New York Palliative Care Information Act. Dr. Michael Pearl is Professor and Director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital.
Palliative care white paper for RegenceErin Codazzi
Writing this white paper for Regence was a humbling experience, connecting directly with the doctors, nurses, nonprofits and industry influencers dedicated to elevating the awareness for palliative care. It's an important topic and one every one of us should start talking about, as daunting as it may be. Grateful to the team at Regence for letting me dig deep on this one. Read the press release: http://news.regence.com/releases/regence-blueshield-releases-findings-on-the-importance-of-a-holistic-approach-to-palliative-care
Patient Directed Care; Why it’s important and what does it really mean?Spectrum Health System
Understanding the importance of effective patient centered communication for patient engagement and improved health outcomes. Will discuss the importance of patient directed care and its relationship to the quadruple aim. Will discuss the barriers and a framework for conversations that are critical to patient directed care and cultural competency.
I need response for the following peerspeer 1 yedPractic.docxflorriezhamphrey3065
I need response for the following peers
peer 1 yed
Practice
Effective pain and symptom management is an important part of patients with life-threatening diseases and their families. Reducing pain and other symptoms does not only provide relief to suffering patients but will also eases the grief that families will face after the patient’s death (Sun et al., 2015). Nurses play a huge role in reversing the treatment of pain and other associated symptoms and should therefore possess basic competencies in the management of symptoms. To achieve quality outcomes, nurses need to use patients and family fears together with the knowledge and skills regarding symptom management using pharmacological, nonpharmacological, and integrative therapies (Paice et al., 2018).
Education
Nurses need to learn about the seriously ill , other vulnerable populations and the required prioritization. According to the American Nurses Association (2017), Content about palliative care should be included in any curricula including the academic and development settings. Nurses also need to utilize palliative care learning materials as provided by nursing organizations and agencies.
Research
Given that healthcare resources are limited, it is important that end of life care is evidence-based rather than solemnly based on the provider’s intuition. Chronically ill patients deserve quality, person-centered and evidenced-based care whether they are at the home, hospital, or any other facility. Evidence-based interventions help guide nurses in their choices of the most appropriate treatment plan (Black et al., 2015). Research also helps nurses highlight and be aware of the potential benefits and harms and make informed decisions based on the expected outcomes (Black et al., 2015).
Administration
An unhealthy work environment can lead to medical errors, conflicts and stress among healthcare teams, and ineffective care delivery (AACN, 2016). Due to these reasons, healthcare providers need to promote a healthcare environment that will benefit both the patient and the family. The goal is to provide quality care and leave the patient and family members fully satisfied.
peer 2 lin
End of life care constitutes several aspects, including pain and symptoms management, ethical decision-making, and cultural sensitivity. Advanced practice registered nurses as the superiors in clinical practice and care delivery at the system level. Nevertheless, challenges are emerging in palliative care clinicians' current surroundings necessitating the advanced training of registered nurses to provide care for every patient and their families.
Practice
- Identity, assess, and treat psychosocial and spiritual issues conceded with palliative care.
APRN nurses strive to improve their primary standards of palliative care. Thus, compelling them to seek palliative care knowledge for an overall improvement in providing care for a patient and people close to them (Hoerger et al., 2018). In thei.
A Palliative Approach in Residential Care Settings (March 2014)Joan Trinh Pham
A basic presentation presentation on the topic of applying a palliative approach to residential care settings for elders + their families. It covers a review of palliative care + terminology then distinguishing between specialized palliative care + an a palliative approach. Emphasis is placed upon goals of care conversations as the primary means to integrate a palliative approach to care for elders.
Palliative Care Across the Continuum as presented to the The Palliative Care Summit for PeopleFirst Homecare and Hospice that was held in Snowbird Utah on September 15, 2012, following the Rocky Mountain Geriatric Conference.
Hospice Care - Is It Right for You or Your Loved One?Theresa Lynn
This presentation from Wings of Hope Hospice in Allegan, Michigan describes the benefits of hospice care, when hospice care might be appropriate and the geographic area Wings of Hope serves.
Palliative care is an approach to care which improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness.
Provider Based Patient Engagement - An Essential Strategy for Population HealthPhytel
As the healthcare industry starts to re-engineer care delivery to accommodate new reimbursement models, providers on the front lines of change recognize the need for population health management and for increasing patients’ engagement in their own care. These two approaches are inextricably bound together, because it is impossible to manage the health of a population without getting patients more involved in self-management and the modification of their own risk factors. This paper discusses the fundamentals of patient engagement and shows how automation tools and web-based care management can facilitate this key process.
Living as Well as you Can for As Long as you CanBCCPA
Sit down buffet breakfast featuring keynote speaker Dr. Romayne Gallagher, Head Division of Palliative Care, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Providence Health Care; Clinical Professor, Division of Palliative Care, UBC
Engines of Success for U.S. Health Reform?
Eric B. Larson, MD, MPHVice President for Research, Group Health Executive Director, Group Health Research Institute
This is the presentation Victor Montori (KER UNIT, Healthcare Delivery Research Program, Mayo Clinic) gave at the Normalization Process Theory symposium at King's Fund, London, UK on October 22, 2010.
SHARE Presentation: Palliative Care for Womenbkling
Dr. Michael Pearl discusses supportive palliative care for women with cancer, how it differs from hospice care, and the New York Palliative Care Information Act. Dr. Michael Pearl is Professor and Director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital.
Palliative care white paper for RegenceErin Codazzi
Writing this white paper for Regence was a humbling experience, connecting directly with the doctors, nurses, nonprofits and industry influencers dedicated to elevating the awareness for palliative care. It's an important topic and one every one of us should start talking about, as daunting as it may be. Grateful to the team at Regence for letting me dig deep on this one. Read the press release: http://news.regence.com/releases/regence-blueshield-releases-findings-on-the-importance-of-a-holistic-approach-to-palliative-care
Patient Directed Care; Why it’s important and what does it really mean?Spectrum Health System
Understanding the importance of effective patient centered communication for patient engagement and improved health outcomes. Will discuss the importance of patient directed care and its relationship to the quadruple aim. Will discuss the barriers and a framework for conversations that are critical to patient directed care and cultural competency.
I need response for the following peerspeer 1 yedPractic.docxflorriezhamphrey3065
I need response for the following peers
peer 1 yed
Practice
Effective pain and symptom management is an important part of patients with life-threatening diseases and their families. Reducing pain and other symptoms does not only provide relief to suffering patients but will also eases the grief that families will face after the patient’s death (Sun et al., 2015). Nurses play a huge role in reversing the treatment of pain and other associated symptoms and should therefore possess basic competencies in the management of symptoms. To achieve quality outcomes, nurses need to use patients and family fears together with the knowledge and skills regarding symptom management using pharmacological, nonpharmacological, and integrative therapies (Paice et al., 2018).
Education
Nurses need to learn about the seriously ill , other vulnerable populations and the required prioritization. According to the American Nurses Association (2017), Content about palliative care should be included in any curricula including the academic and development settings. Nurses also need to utilize palliative care learning materials as provided by nursing organizations and agencies.
Research
Given that healthcare resources are limited, it is important that end of life care is evidence-based rather than solemnly based on the provider’s intuition. Chronically ill patients deserve quality, person-centered and evidenced-based care whether they are at the home, hospital, or any other facility. Evidence-based interventions help guide nurses in their choices of the most appropriate treatment plan (Black et al., 2015). Research also helps nurses highlight and be aware of the potential benefits and harms and make informed decisions based on the expected outcomes (Black et al., 2015).
Administration
An unhealthy work environment can lead to medical errors, conflicts and stress among healthcare teams, and ineffective care delivery (AACN, 2016). Due to these reasons, healthcare providers need to promote a healthcare environment that will benefit both the patient and the family. The goal is to provide quality care and leave the patient and family members fully satisfied.
peer 2 lin
End of life care constitutes several aspects, including pain and symptoms management, ethical decision-making, and cultural sensitivity. Advanced practice registered nurses as the superiors in clinical practice and care delivery at the system level. Nevertheless, challenges are emerging in palliative care clinicians' current surroundings necessitating the advanced training of registered nurses to provide care for every patient and their families.
Practice
- Identity, assess, and treat psychosocial and spiritual issues conceded with palliative care.
APRN nurses strive to improve their primary standards of palliative care. Thus, compelling them to seek palliative care knowledge for an overall improvement in providing care for a patient and people close to them (Hoerger et al., 2018). In thei.
Choose 1 focal point from each subcategory of practice, education, r.docxspoonerneddy
Choose 1 focal point from each subcategory of practice, education, research and administration and describe how the APRN can provide effective care in end of life management.
Using the American nurses association position statement, recommendations for improvement in end of life management focuses on practice, education, research and administration. Listed below are steps that nurses can take to overcome barriers in healthcare practice.
Practice
1. Strive to attain a standard of primary palliative care so that all health care providers have basic knowledge of palliative nursing to improve the care of patients and families.
2. All nurses will have basic skills in recognizing and managing symptoms, including pain, dyspnea, nausea, constipation, and others.
3. Nurses will be comfortable having discussions about death, and will collaborate with the care teams to ensure that patients and families have current and accurate information about the possibility or probability of a patient’s impending death.
4. Encourage patient and family participation in health care decision-making, including the use of advance directives in which both patient preferences and surrogates are identified.
Education
1. Those who practice in secondary or tertiary palliative care will have specialist education and certification.
2. Institutions and schools of nursing will integrate precepts of primary palliative care into curricula.
3. Basic and specialist End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) resources will be available.
4. Advocate for additional education in academic programs and work settings related to palliative care, including symptom management, supported decision-making, and end-of-life care, focusing on patients and families.
Research
1. Increase the integration of evidence-based care across the dimensions of end-of-life care.
2. Develop best practices for quality care across the dimensions of end-of-life care, including the physical, psychological, spiritual, and interpersonal.
3. Support the use of evidence-based and ethical care, and support decision-making for care at the end of life.
4. Develop best practices to measure the quality and effectiveness of the counseling and interdisciplinary care patients and families receive regarding end-of-life decision-making and treatments.
5. Support research that examines the relationship of patient and family satisfaction and their utilization of health care resources in end-of-life care choices.
Administration
1. Promote work environments in which the standards for excellent care extend through the patient’s death and into post-death care for families.
2. Encourage facilities and institutions to support the clinical competence and professional development that will help nurses provide excellent, dignified, and compassionate end-of-life care.
3. Work toward a standard of palliative care available to patients and families from the time of diagnosis of a serious illness or an injury.
4. Sup.
mHealth Israel_Incorporating the Patient Voice into Clinical Delivery Models ...Levi Shapiro
Incorporating the Patient Voice into Clinical Delivery Models for Person-Centered Care, presentation by Alan Balch, CEO, National Patient Advocate Foundation.
The course of death and dying has changed tremendously in the past.docxarnoldmeredith47041
The course of death and dying has changed tremendously in the past few decades because of social and technological advances. Increases in average life expectancy due to advances in medical science and technology (National Center for Health Statistics, 2010) have influenced our beliefs and attitudes about life and death. The course of illness and dying has changed; at one time, the onset of illness and subsequent death from certain illnesses was sudden and rapid, but now the typical death may be more prolonged. The place where death occurs has moved from the home or community to the hospital, nursing home, or institutional setting. These changes have posed enormous challenges in end-of-life and palliative care.
PALLIATIVE CARE
Palliative care is an interdisciplinary care model that focuses on the comprehensive management of physical, psychological, and existential distress. It is defined as “the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment.” Control of pain and other symptoms and psychological, social, and spiritual problems is paramount. “The goal of palliative care is the achievement of the best possible quality of life for patients and their families” (World Health Organization [WHO], 1990, p. 7). Palliative care aims to improve the patient's quality of life by identifying physical, psychosocial, and spiritual issues while managing pain and other distressing symptoms. Palliative care “affirms life and regards dying as a normal process; is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counselling, if indicated” (WHO, 2004, p. 3).
The palliative care model applies throughout the entire course of illness and attempts to address the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual concerns that affect both the quality of life and the quality of dying for patients with life-limiting illnesses at any phase of the disease. It includes interventions that are intended to maintain the quality of life of the patient and family. Although the focus intensifies at the end of life, the priority to provide comfort and attend to the patient's and family's psychosocial concerns remains important throughout the course of the illness. In the model's ideal implementation, patient and family values and decisions are respected, practical needs are addressed, psychosocial and spiritual distress are managed, and comfort care is provided as the individual nears the end of life.
Palliative medicine is the medical specialty dedicated to excellence in palliative care. Palliative care specialists, including social workers, typically work on teams and are involved when patients’ disease is advanced, their life expectancy is limited, and medical and psychosocial concerns become complex and more urgent. In practice, these problems ofte.
The course of death and dying has changed tremendously in the past.docxrtodd643
The course of death and dying has changed tremendously in the past few decades because of social and technological advances. Increases in average life expectancy due to advances in medical science and technology (National Center for Health Statistics, 2010) have influenced our beliefs and attitudes about life and death. The course of illness and dying has changed; at one time, the onset of illness and subsequent death from certain illnesses was sudden and rapid, but now the typical death may be more prolonged. The place where death occurs has moved from the home or community to the hospital, nursing home, or institutional setting. These changes have posed enormous challenges in end-of-life and palliative care.
PALLIATIVE CARE
Palliative care is an interdisciplinary care model that focuses on the comprehensive management of physical, psychological, and existential distress. It is defined as “the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment.” Control of pain and other symptoms and psychological, social, and spiritual problems is paramount. “The goal of palliative care is the achievement of the best possible quality of life for patients and their families” (World Health Organization [WHO], 1990, p. 7). Palliative care aims to improve the patient's quality of life by identifying physical, psychosocial, and spiritual issues while managing pain and other distressing symptoms. Palliative care “affirms life and regards dying as a normal process; is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counselling, if indicated” (WHO, 2004, p. 3).
The palliative care model applies throughout the entire course of illness and attempts to address the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual concerns that affect both the quality of life and the quality of dying for patients with life-limiting illnesses at any phase of the disease. It includes interventions that are intended to maintain the quality of life of the patient and family. Although the focus intensifies at the end of life, the priority to provide comfort and attend to the patient's and family's psychosocial concerns remains important throughout the course of the illness. In the model's ideal implementation, patient and family values and decisions are respected, practical needs are addressed, psychosocial and spiritual distress are managed, and comfort care is provided as the individual nears the end of life.
Palliative medicine is the medical specialty dedicated to excellence in palliative care. Palliative care specialists, including social workers, typically work on teams and are involved when patients’ disease is advanced, their life expectancy is limited, and medical and psychosocial concerns become complex and more urgent. In practice, these problems ofte.
Choose 1 focal point from each subcategory of practice, educatio.docxbissacr
Choose 1 focal point from each subcategory of practice, education, research and administration and describe how the APRN can provide effective care in end of life management
Using the American nurses association position statement, recommendations for improvement in end of life management focuses on practice, education, research and administration. Listed below are steps that nurses can take to overcome barriers in healthcare practice.
Practice
1. Strive to attain a standard of primary palliative care so that all health care providers have basic knowledge of palliative nursing to improve the care of patients and families.
2. All nurses will have basic skills in recognizing and managing symptoms, including pain, dyspnea, nausea, constipation, and others.
3. Nurses will be comfortable having discussions about death, and will collaborate with the care teams to ensure that patients and families have current and accurate information about the possibility or probability of a patient’s impending death.
4. Encourage patient and family participation in health care decision-making, including the use of advance directives in which both patient preferences and surrogates are identified.
Education
1. Those who practice in secondary or tertiary palliative care will have specialist education and certification.
2. Institutions and schools of nursing will integrate precepts of primary palliative care into curricula.
3. Basic and specialist End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) resources will be available.
4. Advocate for additional education in academic programs and work settings related to palliative care, including symptom management, supported decision-making, and end-of-life care, focusing on patients and families.
Research
1. Increase the integration of evidence-based care across the dimensions of end-of-life care.
2. Develop best practices for quality care across the dimensions of end-of-life care, including the physical, psychological, spiritual, and interpersonal.
3. Support the use of evidence-based and ethical care, and support decision-making for care at the end of life.
4. Develop best practices to measure the quality and effectiveness of the counseling and interdisciplinary care patients and families receive regarding end-of-life decision-making and treatments.
5. Support research that examines the relationship of patient and family satisfaction and their utilization of health care resources in end-of-life care choices.
Administration
1. Promote work environments in which the standards for excellent care extend through the patient’s death and into post-death care for families.
2. Encourage facilities and institutions to support the clinical competence and professional development that will help nurses provide excellent, dignified, and compassionate end-of-life care.
3. Work toward a standard of palliative care available to patients and families from the time of diagnosis of a serious illness or a.
Choose 1 focal point from each subcategory of practice, educatio.docxspoonerneddy
Choose 1 focal point from each subcategory of practice, education, research and administration and describe how the APRN can provide effective care in end of life management
Using the American nurses association position statement, recommendations for improvement in end of life management focuses on practice, education, research and administration. Listed below are steps that nurses can take to overcome barriers in healthcare practice.
Practice
1. Strive to attain a standard of primary palliative care so that all health care providers have basic knowledge of palliative nursing to improve the care of patients and families.
2. All nurses will have basic skills in recognizing and managing symptoms, including pain, dyspnea, nausea, constipation, and others.
3. Nurses will be comfortable having discussions about death, and will collaborate with the care teams to ensure that patients and families have current and accurate information about the possibility or probability of a patient’s impending death.
4. Encourage patient and family participation in health care decision-making, including the use of advance directives in which both patient preferences and surrogates are identified.
Education
1. Those who practice in secondary or tertiary palliative care will have specialist education and certification.
2. Institutions and schools of nursing will integrate precepts of primary palliative care into curricula.
3. Basic and specialist End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) resources will be available.
4. Advocate for additional education in academic programs and work settings related to palliative care, including symptom management, supported decision-making, and end-of-life care, focusing on patients and families.
Research
1. Increase the integration of evidence-based care across the dimensions of end-of-life care.
2. Develop best practices for quality care across the dimensions of end-of-life care, including the physical, psychological, spiritual, and interpersonal.
3. Support the use of evidence-based and ethical care, and support decision-making for care at the end of life.
4. Develop best practices to measure the quality and effectiveness of the counseling and interdisciplinary care patients and families receive regarding end-of-life decision-making and treatments.
5. Support research that examines the relationship of patient and family satisfaction and their utilization of health care resources in end-of-life care choices.
Administration
1. Promote work environments in which the standards for excellent care extend through the patient’s death and into post-death care for families.
2. Encourage facilities and institutions to support the clinical competence and professional development that will help nurses provide excellent, dignified, and compassionate end-of-life care.
3. Work toward a standard of palliative care available to patients and families from the time of diagnosis of a serious illness or an injury.
4. Suppo.
Discussion Board Question 2 End of Life Care.Choose 1 focal poiwiddowsonerica
Discussion Board Question 2: End of Life Care.
Choose 1 focal point from each subcategory of practice, education, research and administration and describe how the APRN can provide effective care in end of life management.
Using the American nurses association position statement, recommendations for improvement in end of life management focuses on practice, education, research and administration. Listed below are steps that nurses can take to overcome barriers in healthcare practice.
Practice
1. Strive to attain a standard of primary palliative care so that all health care providers have basic knowledge of palliative nursing to improve the care of patients and families.
2. All nurses will have basic skills in recognizing and managing symptoms, including pain, dyspnea, nausea, constipation, and others.
3. Nurses will be comfortable having discussions about death, and will collaborate with the care teams to ensure that patients and families have current and accurate information about the possibility or probability of a patient’s impending death.
4. Encourage patient and family participation in health care decision-making, including the use of advance directives in which both patient preferences and surrogates are identified.
Education
1. Those who practice in secondary or tertiary palliative care will have specialist education and certification.
2. Institutions and schools of nursing will integrate precepts of primary palliative care into curricula.
3. Basic and specialist End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) resources will be available.
4. Advocate for additional education in academic programs and work settings related to palliative care, including symptom management, supported decision-making, and end-of-life care, focusing on patients and families.
Research
1. Increase the integration of evidence-based care across the dimensions of end-of-life care.
2. Develop best practices for quality care across the dimensions of end-of-life care, including the physical, psychological, spiritual, and interpersonal.
3. Support the use of evidence-based and ethical care, and support decision-making for care at the end of life.
4. Develop best practices to measure the quality and effectiveness of the counseling and interdisciplinary care patients and families receive regarding end-of-life decision-making and treatments.
5. Support research that examines the relationship of patient and family satisfaction and their utilization of health care resources in end-of-life care choices.
Administration
1. Promote work environments in which the standards for excellent care extend through the patient’s death and into post-death care for families.
2. Encourage facilities and institutions to support the clinical competence and professional development that will help nurses provide excellent, dignified, and compassionate end-of-life care.
3. Work toward a standard of palliative care available to patients and families from the time of dia ...
Discussion Board 2 End of Life Care.Choose 1 focal point from widdowsonerica
Discussion Board 2: End of Life Care.
Choose 1 focal point from each subcategory of practice, education, research and administration and describe how the APRN can provide effective care in end of life management
Using the American nurses association position statement, recommendations for improvement in end of life management focuses on practice, education, research and administration. Listed below are steps that nurses can take to overcome barriers in healthcare practice.
Practice
1. Strive to attain a standard of primary palliative care so that all health care providers have basic knowledge of palliative nursing to improve the care of patients and families.
2. All nurses will have basic skills in recognizing and managing symptoms, including pain, dyspnea, nausea, constipation, and others.
3. Nurses will be comfortable having discussions about death, and will collaborate with the care teams to ensure that patients and families have current and accurate information about the possibility or probability of a patient’s impending death.
4. Encourage patient and family participation in health care decision-making, including the use of advance directives in which both patient preferences and surrogates are identified.
Education
1. Those who practice in secondary or tertiary palliative care will have specialist education and certification.
2. Institutions and schools of nursing will integrate precepts of primary palliative care into curricula.
3. Basic and specialist End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) resources will be available.
4. Advocate for additional education in academic programs and work settings related to palliative care, including symptom management, supported decision-making, and end-of-life care, focusing on patients and families.
Research
1. Increase the integration of evidence-based care across the dimensions of end-of-life care.
2. Develop best practices for quality care across the dimensions of end-of-life care, including the physical, psychological, spiritual, and interpersonal.
3. Support the use of evidence-based and ethical care, and support decision-making for care at the end of life.
4. Develop best practices to measure the quality and effectiveness of the counseling and interdisciplinary care patients and families receive regarding end-of-life decision-making and treatments.
5. Support research that examines the relationship of patient and family satisfaction and their utilization of health care resources in end-of-life care choices.
Administration
1. Promote work environments in which the standards for excellent care extend through the patient’s death and into post-death care for families.
2. Encourage facilities and institutions to support the clinical competence and professional development that will help nurses provide excellent, dignified, and compassionate end-of-life care.
3. Work toward a standard of palliative care available to patients and families from the tim ...
Discussion Board 2 End of Life Care. Choose 1 focal point from eawiddowsonerica
Discussion Board 2: End of Life Care. Choose 1 focal point from each subcategory of practice, education, research and administration and describe how the APRN can provide effective care in end of life management Using the American nurses association position statement, recommendations for improvement in end of life management focuses on practice, education, research and administration. Listed below are steps that nurses can take to overcome barriers in healthcare practice. Practice 1. Strive to attain a standard of primary palliative care so that all health care providers have basic knowledge of palliative nursing to improve the care of patients and families. 2. All nurses will have basic skills in recognizing and managing symptoms, including pain, dyspnea, nausea, constipation, and others. 3. Nurses will be comfortable having discussions about death, and will collaborate with the care teams to ensure that patients and families have current and accurate information about the possibility or probability of a patient’s impending death. 4. Encourage patient and family participation in health care decision-making, including the use of advance directives in which both patient preferences and surrogates are identified. Education 1. Those who practice in secondary or tertiary palliative care will have specialist education and certification. 2. Institutions and schools of nursing will integrate precepts of primary palliative care into curricula. 3. Basic and specialist End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) resources will be available. 4. Advocate for additional education in academic programs and work settings related to palliative care, including symptom management, supported decision-making, and end-of-life care, focusing on patients and families. Research 1. Increase the integration of evidence-based care across the dimensions of end-of-life care. 2. Develop best practices for quality care across the dimensions of end-of-life care, including the physical, psychological, spiritual, and interpersonal. 3. Support the use of evidence-based and ethical care, and support decision-making for care at the end of life. 4. Develop best practices to measure the quality and effectiveness of the counseling and interdisciplinary care patients and families receive regarding end-of-life decision-making and treatments. 5. Support research that examines the relationship of patient and family satisfaction and their utilization of health care resources in end-of-life care choices. Administration 1. Promote work environments in which the standards for excellent care extend through the patient’s death and into post-death care for families. 2. Encourage facilities and institutions to support the clinical competence and professional development that will help nurses provide excellent, dignified, and compassionate end-of-life care. 3. Work toward a standard of palliative care available to patients and families fro ...
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Stewardship is the act of taking good care of something.
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
WHO launched the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) in 2015 to fill knowledge gaps and inform strategies at all levels.
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Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
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Antibiotic stewardship refers to efforts in doctors’ offices, hospitals, long term care facilities, and other health care settings to ensure that antibiotics are used only when necessary and appropriate
According to WHO,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a systematic approach to educate and support health care professionals to follow evidence-based guidelines for prescribing and administering antimicrobials
In 1996, John McGowan and Dale Gerding first applied the term antimicrobial stewardship, where they suggested a causal association between antimicrobial agent use and resistance. They also focused on the urgency of large-scale controlled trials of antimicrobial-use regulation employing sophisticated epidemiologic methods, molecular typing, and precise resistance mechanism analysis.
Antimicrobial Stewardship(AMS) refers to the optimal selection, dosing, and duration of antimicrobial treatment resulting in the best clinical outcome with minimal side effects to the patients and minimal impact on subsequent resistance.
According to the 2019 report, in the US, more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur each year, and more than 35000 people die. In addition to this, it also mentioned that 223,900 cases of Clostridoides difficile occurred in 2017, of which 12800 people died. The report did not include viruses or parasites
VISION
Being proactive
Supporting optimal animal and human health
Exploring ways to reduce overall use of antimicrobials
Using the drugs that prevent and treat disease by killing microscopic organisms in a responsible way
GOAL
to prevent the generation and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Doing so will preserve the effectiveness of these drugs in animals and humans for years to come.
being to preserve human and animal health and the effectiveness of antimicrobial medications.
to implement a multidisciplinary approach in assembling a stewardship team to include an infectious disease physician, a clinical pharmacist with infectious diseases training, infection preventionist, and a close collaboration with the staff in the clinical microbiology laboratory
to prevent antimicrobial overuse, misuse and abuse.
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Alongside the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva on 28 May 2024, we launched the second version of our Index, allowing us to track progress and give new insights into what needs to be done to keep populations healthier for longer.
The speakers included:
Professor Orazio Schillaci, Minister of Health, Italy
Dr Hans Groth, Chairman of the Board, World Demographic & Ageing Forum
Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Founder and Chair, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute and co-chair, World Health Summit Council
Dr Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, Director, Country Health Policies and Systems Division, World Health Organisation EURO
Dr Marta Lomazzi, Executive Manager, World Federation of Public Health Associations
Dr Shyam Bishen, Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare and Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum
Dr Karin Tegmark Wisell, Director General, Public Health Agency of Sweden
One of the most developed cities of India, the city of Chennai is the capital of Tamilnadu and many people from different parts of India come here to earn their bread and butter. Being a metropolitan, the city is filled with towering building and beaches but the sad part as with almost every Indian city
Defecation
Normal defecation begins with movement in the left colon, moving stool toward the anus. When stool reaches the rectum, the distention causes relaxation of the internal sphincter and an awareness of the need to defecate. At the time of defecation, the external sphincter relaxes, and abdominal muscles contract, increasing intrarectal pressure and forcing the stool out
The Valsalva maneuver exerts pressure to expel faeces through a voluntary contraction of the abdominal muscles while maintaining forced expiration against a closed airway. Patients with cardiovascular disease, glaucoma, increased intracranial pressure, or a new surgical wound are at greater risk for cardiac dysrhythmias and elevated blood pressure with the Valsalva maneuver and need to avoid straining to pass the stool.
Normal defecation is painless, resulting in passage of soft, formed stool
CONSTIPATION
Constipation is a symptom, not a disease. Improper diet, reduced fluid intake, lack of exercise, and certain medications can cause constipation. For example, patients receiving opiates for pain after surgery often require a stool softener or laxative to prevent constipation. The signs of constipation include infrequent bowel movements (less than every 3 days), difficulty passing stools, excessive straining, inability to defecate at will, and hard feaces
IMPACTION
Fecal impaction results from unrelieved constipation. It is a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that a person cannot expel. In cases of severe impaction the mass extends up into the sigmoid colon.
DIARRHEA
Diarrhea is an increase in the number of stools and the passage of liquid, unformed feces. It is associated with disorders affecting digestion, absorption, and secretion in the GI tract. Intestinal contents pass through the small and large intestine too quickly to allow for the usual absorption of fluid and nutrients. Irritation within the colon results in increased mucus secretion. As a result, feces become watery, and the patient is unable to control the urge to defecate. Normally an anal bag is safe and effective in long-term treatment of patients with fecal incontinence at home, in hospice, or in the hospital. Fecal incontinence is expensive and a potentially dangerous condition in terms of contamination and risk of skin ulceration
HEMORRHOIDS
Hemorrhoids are dilated, engorged veins in the lining of the rectum. They are either external or internal.
FLATULENCE
As gas accumulates in the lumen of the intestines, the bowel wall stretches and distends (flatulence). It is a common cause of abdominal fullness, pain, and cramping. Normally intestinal gas escapes through the mouth (belching) or the anus (passing of flatus)
FECAL INCONTINENCE
Fecal incontinence is the inability to control passage of feces and gas from the anus. Incontinence harms a patient’s body image
PREPARATION AND GIVING OF LAXATIVESACCORDING TO POTTER AND PERRY,
An enema is the instillation of a solution into the rectum and sig
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Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines Dissemination
1. The National Consensus Project for Quality
Palliative Care
Promoting Quality and Excellence: The 3rd edition
of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality
Palliative Care
Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, MA, FAAN, FPCN, CHPN
Professor and Director
Department of Nursing Research and Education
City of Hope, CA
4. 1. Create clinical guidelines that improve quality of
palliative care in the United States.
2. Promote quality palliative care.
3. Foster consistent and high standards in palliative
care.
4. Encourage continuity of care across settings.
The Clinical Practice Guidelines serve as manual or
blueprint to create new programs, guide
developing programs, and set high expectations
for excellence for existing programs.
5. Consortium of six key national palliative care
organizations:
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative
Medicine
Center to Advance Palliative Care
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
National Association of Social Workers
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
National Palliative Care Research Center
6. AAHPM
Amy Abernethy, MD, FAAHPM
C. Porter Storey, Jr. MD, FACP, FAAHPM
CAPC
Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP
David E. Weissman, MD, FAAHPM
HPNA
Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, FAAN, FPCN
Constance Dahlin, ANP, ACHPN, FPCN,
FAAN
Sally Welsh, MSN, RN, NEA-BC
NASW
Chris Herman, MSW, LICSW
Stacy F. Orloff, EdD, LCSW, ACHP, SW
NHPCO
Judi Lund Person, MPH
Edward W. Martin, MD, MPH
NPCRC
Sean Morrison, MD, FAAHPM
Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH, FAAP, FAAHPM
7.
8. 2004 – Release of the first edition
◦ Endorsed by 40 organizations and associations in 2004
2005 – Disseminated to 90 other organizations and associations
2006 - Used as guiding document for NQF’s A National Framework
and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality: A
Consensus Report
2009 – Second edition
◦ Used for review of health care reform under the Obama Administration
2011- Used as underlying principles in The Joint Commission for
Palliative Care Advanced Certification
2013 – Third edition
◦ Endorsed by 53 organizations and associations
9. Palliative care is patient and family centered care.
There is comprehensive palliative care with continuity across
health settings.
Early introduction of palliative care should begin at diagnosis of a
serious or life threatening illness.
Palliative care is interdisciplinary and collaborative.
Palliative care team members have clinical and communication
expertise.
The goal of palliative care is the relief of physical, psychological,
emotional, and spiritual suffering of patients and families.
Palliative care should focus on quality care.
There should be equitable access to palliative care services.
10. Palliative Care means patient and family-centered
care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating,
preventing, and treating suffering. Palliative care
throughout the continuum of illness involves
addressing physical, intellectual, emotional, social
and spiritual needs and to facilitate patient
autonomy, access to information and choice.
National Quality Forum 2006
Federal Register 2008
11. Care is provided and services are coordinated by an
interdisciplinary team.
Patients, families, palliative and non-palliative health
care providers collaborate and communicate about
care needs.
Services are available concurrently with or
independent of curative or life-prolonging care.
Patient and family hopes for peace and dignity are
supported throughout the course of illness, during
the dying process, and after death.
12. Palliative care is operationalized through effective
management of pain and other distressing symptoms,
while incorporating psychosocial and spiritual care with
consideration of patient/family needs, preferences, values,
beliefs, and culture. Evaluation and treatment should be
comprehensive and patient-centered with a focus on the
central role of the family unit in decision making.
NCP 2004
13. Palliative care affirms life by supporting the patient and
family’s goals for the future, including their hopes for
cure or life-prolongation, as well as their hopes for
peace and dignity throughout the course of illness, the
dying process, and death.
NCP 2004
14.
15. Necessitated by maturation of the field:
◦ Increased numbers of hospice and palliative care
programs since 2009
◦ Increased palliative care representation across the health
care system
◦ Developments in the palliative care evidence base over
the last five years
Morrison RS, Dietrich J, Ladwig S, et al. Palliative care consultation teams
cut hospital costs for Medicaid beneficiaries. Health Affairs. 2011;30(3):454-
463.
Taylor D. Effect of hospice on Medicare and informal care costs: The United
States experience. Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. 2009;38:110-114.
16. Essential to reflect seminal events since 2009
◦ Health Care Reform (Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act of 2010) which has critical elements of palliative
care
◦ Advanced Palliative Care Certification by The Joint
Commission initiated in 2011
◦ New Quality Measures designed in 2010, 2011, and 2012
17. Indicate the significant research in the field
◦ Early intervention palliative care in the Bakitas Study of
2009 and the Temel Study of 2010
◦ Work with special populations and non-cancer diagnoses
18. A broader and more inclusive document,
applicable to all health settings.
19.
20. 1. Structure and Processes of Care
2. Physical Aspects of Care
3. Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Care
3. Social Aspects of Care
5. Spiritual, Religious, and Existential Aspects of Care
6. Cultural Aspects of Care
7. Care of the Patient at End of Life – New Domain Title
8. Ethical and Legal Aspects of Care
21. Accentuates the current state of the field with emphasis
on interdisciplinary team (IDT) engagement and
collaboration with patients and families.
Emphasizes coordinated assessment and continuity of
care across healthcare settings.
Describes specificity of interdisciplinary team
composition, team member qualifications, necessary
education, training, and support.
Incorporates the new mandates for quality under the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
22. Emphasizes the assessment and treatment of physical
symptoms with appropriate, validated tools.
Acknowledges that management of symptoms is
multidimensional with pharmacological, interventional,
behavioral, and complementary interventions.
Recommends the utilization of explicit policies for the
treatment of pain and symptom management, as well as
safe prescribing of controlled medications.
23. Significant revisions on the collaborative assessment
process of psychological concerns and psychiatric
diagnoses.
Defines essential elements include patient-family
communication on assessment, diagnosis, and
treatment options for common conditions in context of
respect for goals of care of the patient and family.
Describes required elements of a bereavement program.
24. Emphasizes interdisciplinary engagement and
collaboration with patients and families to identify,
support, and capitalize on patient and family strengths.
Defines essential elements of a palliative care social
assessment.
Describes the role of the professional social worker with
a bachelor’s or master’s degree in social work.
25. Includes a definition of spirituality, stressing assessment,
access, and staff collaboration in attending to spiritual
concerns throughout the illness trajectory.
Offers requirements for staff training and education in
provision of spiritual care.
Emphasizes the responsibility of the interdisciplinary team,
inclusive of an appropriately trained chaplain, to explore,
assess, and attend to spiritual issues of the patient and
family.
Promotes spiritual and religious rituals and practices for
comfort and relief.
26. Defines culture and cultural competence for the
interdisciplinary team, underscoring culture as a source
of resilience and strength for the patient and family.
Accentuates cultural and linguistic competence including
plain language, literacy, and linguistically appropriate
service delivery.
27. Highlights communication and documentation of signs and
symptoms of the dying process in the circle of care: the
patient, the family, and all other involved health providers.
Underscores the importance of meticulous assessment and
management of pain and other symptoms.
Emphasizes the essential attention to family guidance as to
what to expect in the dying process and the post death
period.
Stresses bereavement support.
Underscores social, spiritual, and cultural aspects of care
throughout the process.
28. Separates into three sections: advance care planning,
ethics, and the legal aspects of care.
Emphasizes the responsibility of the palliative care
team to promote ongoing discussion about goals of care
along with completion and documentation of advance
care planning documents.
Affirms and acknowledges the frequency and
complexity of ethical issues in palliative care. Offers
team competencies in ethics and counsel from ethics
committees.
29. Under legal issues, acknowledgement of the complex
legal and regulatory issues that arise in palliative care
that require team members to understand their
respective scope of practice within the provision of
palliative care.
Emphasizes access to expert legal counsel, essential for
navigating the intricate and sensitive legal and
regulatory issues in palliative care.
31. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Accountable Care
Organizations. 2012; http://www.cms.gov/aco/01/
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Public Law
111-148, §2702, 124 Stat. 119, 318-319,Title III (B)(III) Section 3140,
Consolidating amendments made by Title X of the Act and the
Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 Washington,
DC 2010.
The Joint Commission. Palliative Care Certification Manual.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; 2012.
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32. National Institutes of Health. Research Portfolio Online Reporting
Tools (RePORT). 2012; http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm
National Quality Forum. Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care-A
Consensus Report. Washington, DC: NQF 2012.
http://www.qualityforum.org/Publications/2012/04/Palliative_Care
_and_End-of-Life_Care%2%80%94A_Consensus_Report.aspx
National Quality Forum. Measure Applications Partnership - Performance
Measurement Coordination Strategies for Hospice and Palliative Care Final
Report. Washington, DC: National Quality Forum; 2012.
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34. National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative
Care Clinical Practice Guidelines are part of the
application.
Programs must discuss how they meet the Clinical
Practice Guidelines, and in particular the domain
which is the most challenging.
This is reviewed in the application.
35. National Consensus Project for Quality
Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines are
part of the framework, education, and
benchmarking when the PCLCs train
palliative programs seeking guidance.
36. Distributes the Clinical Practice Guidelines to
participants and uses them to reference the
curriculum.
38. Palliative care plays a crucial role in healthcare
value. It reduces the need for high intensity, high
cost services, such as hospital and home care stays.
Palliative care has repeatedly been demonstrated to
improve quality of care. Specifically, it improves
quality of life for the person and their family in terms
of symptom burden, family well being and practical
supports, communication about what to expect in the
future and treatment options concordant with
person and family-determined goals for care.
39. The Clinical Practice Guidelines serve as a manual or
blueprint to create new and guide developing
programs that can achieve important health
system objectives.
40. Endorsed by 53 professional associations and
organizations.
Supported by 4 professional associations and
organizations.
Endorsements represent the diverse health
disciplines.
41. Represents varied disciplines
◦ Chaplaincy
◦ Nursing
◦ Medicine
◦ Social Work
Reflects varied constituents
◦ Cancer community
◦ Education community
◦ Ethics community
◦ Insurers
◦ Research
43. Acute Care Programs
Ambulatory Care Programs
Rehabilitation Facility Programs
Long Term Care Facility Programs
Community Programs
Home Care Programs
Hospice Programs
Health Care Systems planning Accountable Care
Organizations and Patient Medical Homes
44. Guides program development in all the domains.
Validates necessary program elements to administration.
Ensures quality clinical outcomes in terms management
of physical, psychological and psychiatric pain and
symptoms.
Facilitates achievement of The Joint Commission (JCO)
quality and pain management standards and ANCC
(American Nurses Credentialing Center) Magnet status.
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45. Ensures highest standards of care as they reflect the
maturation of the field, changes in practice, and
developments in the palliative care evidence base.
Reflects new perspectives on the role of palliative
care in quality as mandated by health care reform.
Promotes newest evidence base in outcomes
research.
46. Fosters improved patient outcomes in compliance with
state and federal regulations.
Facilitates partnerships for caring for patients with
debilitating and life limiting illnesses.
Promotes improved patient and family satisfaction in
pain and symptom control.
Cultivates staff support in delivering care for long term
patients.
Encourages improved staff education.
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47. Promotes quality metrics to the hospice program which
are now an essential aspect of reporting as mandated
by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Adds additional aspects of care beyond hospice
standards of participation.
Promotes the field to move upstream.
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48. Facilitates quality care for patients with serious and life
limiting illnesses.
Promotes patient and family satisfaction in pain and
symptom control.
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49. For more information and
Free download of the Clinical Practice Guidelines
available at:
www.nationalconsensusproject.org