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Q:  What are some of your chief responsibilities as a Nurse Practitioner for Hospice of the Western Reserve?
A:  I work on the Lakewood and Westlake teams to provide care for patients and their families in the home setting. Patients or their surrogates are able to select me as their attending of record for home hospice care. This allows us to work together to develop their plan of care and prescribe the necessary medications to provide the best quality of life through their illness trajectory. 
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May 22 2016

Categories: Medical and Clinical Clinical Connections 


Case Study: Peds Team Support Improves Quality of Life for Patient and Family


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​Husam is an 18-year- old who is developmentally at a 3-month- old level with Cerebral Palsy, seizures, and respiratory failure. Hospice of the Western Reserve's pediatric palliative care team met Husam and his mother in June  after being contacted by the hospital where he had been receiving treatment.  The family emigrated to the U.S. from  Iraq under refugee status in their quest to find medical support for Husam. An older brother with similar disorders had died in Iraq.
 
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May 22 2016

Categories: Medical and Clinical Clinical Connections 


The Total Pain Model - 9 Key Points


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The hospice model of care is based upon the concept of "total pain," which acknowledges that patients with serious and life-limiting illness suffer because of physical, emotional, social and spiritual sources of pain and suffering. 
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May 19 2016

Categories: Medical and Clinical Clinical Connections Dr. Kevin Dieter 


The Total Pain Model – 9 Key Points


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The hospice model of care is based upon the concept of "total pain," which acknowledges that patients with serious and life-limiting illness suffer because of physical, emotional, social and spiritual sources of pain and suffering. 
 
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May 19 2016

Categories: Medical and Clinical Clinical Connections Dr. Kevin Dieter 


Social Workers Help Patients Find Peace at the End of Life


As a hospice social worker, commitment to a patient's goals of care entails being a good listener, honoring each person's need to follow his or her own path without judgment and collaborating closely with other members of the transdisciplinary team to achieve the best possible outcome. 
 
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May 19 2016

Categories: Medical and Clinical Clinical Connections Gwen Rifici 

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