Category: ebooks
Safer Prescribing: Avoiding Common Adverse Drug Events in Palliative Care
Hospice and palliative care clinicians prescribe a variety of drugs to address emergent symptoms. What if some of those symptoms are really side effects? It...
Cultivating Care: Prioritizing Hospice Nurse Learning and Development
Employees increasingly value learning and development in the workplace. Hospice nurses are no exception. Does your organization provide the right mix of learning opportunities? Find...
- ebooks
- 10.18.2022
Less Stress, Better Care: A Prescription for Staff and Caregiver Satisfaction
Simple Steps to Save Time, Manage Costs and Improve Quality Reflecting staffing trends within the larger healthcare sector, RN staff retention fell to 77% last...
- ebooks
- 12.07.2021
The Role of Comfort Kits in Hospice Quality Improvement and Cost Containment
Reconsidering the Hospice Comfort Kit The comfort kit – a package containing a few doses of common symptom-management medications – used to be a standard...
- ebooks
- 04.23.2021
Factors Influencing Hospice Pharmacy Spend
As full-risk-bearing providers, hospices pay for nearly all medications they prescribe. These costs can be significant, typically making up the largest expense after staff and...
- ebooks
- 11.17.2020
Equity in Palliative Care and Hospice
The hospice community strives to serve all people, but the demographics of hospice patients nationwide suggest we are falling short. Black Americans make up over...
- ebooks
- 10.30.2020
Hospice Digital Transformation: The Role of Your Pharmacy Benefit Manager
The partnership between hospices and their pharmacy services providers is both unique and continually evolving. Technology plays a large and growing role. Our new ebook...
- ebooks
- 10.06.2020
How Can Effective Deprescribing Benefit Hospice Patients?
Reduce Excess Medications, Improve Quality of Life Unnecessary medications cost more than money. They can cost a patient in quality of life through side effects...