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General Operational Topics
Number of threads on this Forum: 168
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 Time per consultation and per follow up
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Kathi | 1 | 05/14/2013 |
| I would like to hear how much time consultation programs are alloting for initial assessments and follow up visits. Our program keeps growing in referral requests and I want to be able to speak to what may be an industry standard for our field in these ar ... | |||
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Palliative Care Guest Speakers
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THBrown | 1 | 04/15/2013 |
| I am working on setting up a seminar for the staff at our hospital focusing on EOL and Palliative Care. Does anyone know of any really good speakers on the subject that would be willing to present at educational programs? Thanks! | |||
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Palliative Care Treatment Summary
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Deanie | 1 | 04/02/2013 |
| We have a new palliative program and currently would like to provide our patients at discharge with a "Form" simply describing the care they received from our team. The one page draft document includes: Identified Goals of Care, Symptom(s)managed, Medic ... | |||
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Education
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Weissman | 1 | 03/27/2013 |
| If anyone is in the process of developing a generalist-level curriculum/teaching materials or plans to start developing such materials in the next year, could you please send me an email. dweissma@mcw.edu David Weissman, MD CAPC | |||
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YAP
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YAP | 1 | 03/25/2013 |
| Our Palliative Care program is working on aligning its program with the NQF preferred practices. We are getting ready to work on the Processes of Care which is to ask patients and caregivers to assess “physicians’/healthcare professionals’ ability t ... | |||
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inpt hospice conversions
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aswindell | 3 | 03/24/2013 |
| I am looking for some suggestions to stream line nursing assessments in the hospital when patients are converted to inpt hospice admission. Right now the nursing staff has to do a discharge and then do all the paper work over for the admission which is v ... | |||
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Privileges for Hospice House
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TodWynMD | 1 | 03/11/2013 |
| Hello, I'm looking for some guidelines regarding how to establish privileges and responsibilities for physicians OUTSIDE OF OUR HOSPICE who still wish to provide care as attending physicians for their hospice patients admitted to our free-standing inpatie ... | |||
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Re:Comfort care standing orders
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drtariq8890 | 1 | 03/08/2013 |
| Hi , I would like to have a "comfort care standing order set" , can someone share ,. ? Thanks drtariq8890@hotmail.com | |||
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malpractice insurance for palliaitve care
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ifigura | 1 | 02/20/2013 |
| AS I begin my private Palliative Consult Service in Ct,I need to know how to get my own malpractice insurance . What companies do those of you in the NY,NJ,CT area use? | |||
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Nurse Practitioners and Palliative Care
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lbanks | 4 | 03/22/2013 |
| I have been searching for information related to Nurse Practitioners involved in the palliative care environment. I am hoping that someone can help me with my research. I am trying to find specific information that outlines the services an NP can perfo ... | |||
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Palliative Care Committee
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ScottKellogg | 2 | 01/12/2013 |
| I head a new inpatient consultative Palliative Medicine service at a 240 bed community hospital and want suggestions on a soon-to-be-started committee to review cases seen, to report to Patient Safety and Quality Committee, for QI purposes. Suggestions f ... | |||
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Revision of DNR orders
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CAndrews0914 | 2 | 12/18/2012 |
| Hello, our hospital is looking at revising our DNR order form. Currently we list all the possiblities, including whether to utilize vasopressors or not. The questions has come up about whether the family can make this decision or should this be strictly ... | |||
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Home Hospice for Sale?
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SanjaySharma | 2 | 12/18/2012 |
| Hi Team, Does anyone know what the price of a startup home hospice company is? I am currently looking to purchase a license and want to get an idea of the price for purchasing a small relatively new home hospice would be. Also is there a 36 month rule fo ... | |||
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Physician resistance to PC
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THBrown | 2 | 01/29/2013 |
| Besides constant education of staff and Physicians, what would anyone suggest as the best come back to Physicians stating "my patient is not ready for Palliative Care" I am trying to come up with a brief response that I can share with our Nursing staff wh ... | |||
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Re-Structuring to Foundation Model
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gatito | 1 | 09/30/2012 |
| Our small program...just me,a 0.75 FTE MD...is changing. Looking for those experienced with bringing comepensation to a fair average inside a Foundation model and also information about productivity measures for a Palliative Care doc. I really have no i ... | |||
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Re-Structuring to Foundation Model
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gatito | 2 | 10/01/2012 |
| Our small program...just me,a 0.75 FTE MD...is changing. Looking for those experienced with bringing comepensation to a fair average inside a Foundation model and also information about productivity measures for a Palliative Care doc. I really have no i ... | |||
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Electronic medical records
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kbrown3 | 1 | 09/27/2012 |
| We are looking for an EMR system for more consistency in documentation and to help with tracking metrics. Are there systems that are specific to or particularly good for palliative care documentation? | |||
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Complementary Therapies
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jward10450 | 1 | 09/14/2012 |
| I am a NP launching a new program in a small suburban community hospital. My institution currently offers healing touch, aromatherapy, and pet therapy. Are there any programs using these or others methods? We have had some interest in offering acupunct ... | |||
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Heart Failure and Palliative Care
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SGrass | 2 | 09/12/2012 |
| In the teleconference on "How to Engage Your Heart Failure Collegues", an exercise was given to help identify goals, resources, etc. for program development. What resources in regards to staff are recommended to have in place before beginning program deve ... | |||
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Palliative Sedation Credentialing
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smarks | 2 | 09/30/2012 |
| Our hospital is trying to develop a credentialing process for palliative sedation that all palliative medicine physicians and critical care physicians will be able to apply for. However, because some non-palliative care physicians in their mid-career may ... | |||
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Corporate Practice of Medicine
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lorakajan | 1 | 08/28/2012 |
| Hello All, I had a question regarding the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine.. Is it possible for a physician to form an entity or business in which he could operate under, and will it allow him to then practice medicine in multiple states without ... | |||
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Corporate Practice of Medicine
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lorakajan | 2 | 09/11/2012 |
| Hello All, I had a question regarding the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine.. Is it possible for a physician to form an entity or business in which he could operate under, and will it allow him to then practice medicine in multiple states without ... | |||
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Corporate Practice of Medicine
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lorakajan | 1 | 08/28/2012 |
| Hello All, I had a question regarding the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine.. Is it possible for a physician to form an entity or business in which he could operate under, and will it allow him to then practice medicine in multiple states without ... | |||
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Care Goal Discussion
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abbywoods | 2 | 07/24/2012 |
| Hello All, I am beginning a pilot project at my facility to see if timely care goal discussions impact readmissions rates in patients with advanced illness. I was wondering if anyone has any care goal documentation templates that they use in their facil ... | |||
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Addicted patients
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lsevcik | 3 | 08/30/2012 |
| My medical director has read that there is a trend out there where patients addicted to opoids are requesting palliative care for escalation of their opoid regiment. Has anyone encounter this problem and what have you put in place to deal with this matter ... | |||
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How to Avoid Multiple Posts on the Forum
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PCaines | 1 | 07/17/2012 |
| Dear Forum Community: Depending on the speed of your internet connection there may be a delay when you create a new post and THEN click the "Post Message" button. As a result of this delay, after you type the body text of your new post, or reply to an ... | |||
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on call coverage
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klg | 2 | 07/12/2012 |
| Our program currently has 2 FTE's with another being added. The program operates M-F 8am - 4pm at the present. We'd like to eventually be able to offer service 24/7. What kind of staffing do other programs have that allow them to offer 24/7 coverage? | |||
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Initial Consultation Assessment
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lsevcik | 2 | 06/21/2012 |
| We are creating a new consultative Palliative Care program at our facility. I am trying to find a good tool to use as the initial assessment of the patient which also includes the physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual aspects of the asse ... | |||
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Palliative Sedation Advice
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sredding | 4 | 07/23/2012 |
| Our palliative care service has been consulted to assist with the care of a woman with paranoid schizophrenia - hospitalized at a psychiatric facility for past ~6 yrs. She now has metastatic adenocarcinoma - probable ovarian - with ascites and SBO. She ha ... | |||
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Practice Fusion free EHR
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arlingtonpal | 1 | 06/13/2012 |
| Does anyone have experience with Practice Fusion for outpatient palliative care? We are planning to change from Practice Partners. | |||
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