Given their day-to-day, intimate interaction with residents, certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are uniquely positioned to contribute to care planning and interdisciplinary care team (IDT) meetings, ...

Implementing advance care planning consults can increase advance directive completion rates. The authors demonstrate the impact of consults on completed advance directives in the medical record.

A mental health trust in North West England is seeking to boost the role of its nurses in enabling patients to make advance care plans. A total of 40 matrons and nurse specialists from Mersey Care NHS ...

New research in the April 2023 issue of JNCCN - Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network finds that specially trained oncology infusion room nurses can improve advance care planning (ACP) ...

Proper training in a day care setting improves the competency of the staff and creates a standardized knowledge base for all employees. Effective training sessions incorporate specific objectives and ...

In 2016 Medicare introduced advance care planning Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes to reimburse clinicians for time spent providing the service. Despite recent increases, use of these codes ...

Makayla K. Palmer ([email protected]) is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mireille Jacobson is an associate professor ...

More than a few clients who are retired or nearing retirement lie awake at night wondering how they would be able to afford the astronomical expense of long-term care such as a nursing home, which can ...

Guam residents seeking careers in health care will soon have more training opportunities after the Guam Workforce Development ...

Millions of Californians are newly eligible for a health care benefit that could determine the treatment they receive in their final days — and most don’t know it. Medi-Cal, which covers more than 13 ...