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, ...

In a spirit of commitment and hope, representatives from medical, social, and religious organizations have unveiled the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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