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Knoxville nurses bring wedding to UT Medical Center for bride’s dying mother
01/17/25 at 02:00 AMKnoxville nurses bring wedding to UT Medical Center for bride’s dying mother WATE Knoxville, TN; by Molly O'Brien; 1/15/25 Nurses on the Progressive Care Unit at UT Medical Center planned a wedding for one of their patient’s daughter. Samantha Barry and her now husband, Phillip Bastelica, were supposed to get married in a few months. Barry, like most daughters, always planned on her mother being at her wedding day. Her mother, Lynn, is battling a terminal illness and was recently released from the Progressive Care Unit to hospice. ... It seemed unlikely that Lynn would be able to attend the wedding planned for August, so Barry and Bastelica decided to move the day up. ... The nurses who cared for Lynn jumped into action to plan a wedding for Barry.
Muslim community-engaged research highlights Muslim Americans' end-of-life-healthcare gaps and needs
12/26/24 at 03:00 AMMuslim community-engaged research highlights Muslim Americans' end-of-life-healthcare gaps and needs WisconsinMuslimJournal.org; by Sandra Whitehead; 12/20/24 Few Muslim Americans use hospice care, despite its posited benefits. A multi-sectoral team of academicians and community leaders in southeastern Wisconsin decided to find out why. ... Muslims are one of the fastest-growing religious communities in the United States, numbering between 3 to 5 million, with projections it will double by 2050. “With an aging Muslim population, there is a growing need for specialized healthcare services like hospice and palliative care,” the team’s research explains. ... Through a qualitative descriptive study with a Muslim patient and 10 family caregivers, the research team identified their perceptions of hospice care, ethical concerns and experiences. Among their varied perceptions, many saw it as useful only in the last hours of life. Participants also had ethical concerns about the use of sedative medication and with cessation of feeding terminally ill patients. Some had concerns about how hospice care might lead to unnecessary interventions or even hasten death. ... The team is developing an informational resource, Islamic Bioethical Considerations for the End of Life: A Guide for Muslim Americans, to help Muslims who struggle when thinking about death and dying.
Helping Korean Americans with end-of-life planning is her passion
12/12/24 at 03:00 AMHelping Korean Americans with end-of-life planning is her passion Penn Medicine News; by Daphne Sashin; 12/10/24 Eunice Park-Clinton, DNP, MSN, MBE, is standing before a crowd of Korean American senior citizens, and she wants to talk about the end of life. ... Park-Clinton, a nurse case manager in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s Emergency Department and an assistant nursing professor at West Chester University, is undeterred. Speaking in Korean, she takes a kind but frank approach as she walks the seniors through life-sustaining treatments they might be offered in their final days and the need to decide what they will—and won’t—want for a dignified end of life. ... As a Korean American herself, Park-Clinton’s passion for culturally sensitive planning comes from her personal familiarity with the community and its norms. In her work as a nurse, she has personally witnessed older Korean and other Asian immigrants experience health disparities due to their lack of knowledge of the concept.
There aren't enough dementia providers in Arizona. This unique campus offers training
11/18/24 at 03:00 AMThere aren't enough dementia providers in Arizona. This unique campus offers training KJZZ Phoenix, AZ; by Kathy Ritchie; 11/15/24 Arizona has the fastest growth rate of Alzheimer’s disease in the country. Yet there are not enough paid caregivers or even geriatricians — only 92 in the entire state — for this population. So how do you educate, even inspire, health care students to care about dementia? As the saying goes, if you build it, they will come. Judy Ward is chatting with three nursing students from Creighton University when a group of preschoolers toddle on by. ... The children attend a care center located at Hospice of the Valley’s Dementia Care and Education Campus in Arcadia. That’s also where Judy’s adult day club for people living with dementia is situated, along with a 12-bed assisted living community and a hospice unit. ...
New Health Equity Guide from Center to Advance Palliative Care provides a roadmap to transform care for black patients with serious illness
11/14/24 at 03:00 AMNew Health Equity Guide from Center to Advance Palliative Care provides a roadmap to transform care for black patients with serious illness Cision PRWeb; by Center to Advance Palliative Care; 11/13/24 Having medical concerns dismissed, not being believed when reporting pain, and facing multiple barriers to care are just three of the experiences reported to Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) in a focus group of Black patients with serious illness. In fact, when Black people in the United States are living with a serious illness like cancer, heart failure, or dementia, they experience disproportionately high suffering compared to white patients—often due to poor pain management, low-quality communication from their care teams, and high family caregiver burden. To address these inequities, CAPC has released a new, comprehensive guide, Advancing Equity for Black Patients with Serious Illness, to equip palliative care leaders and health equity change agents with practical tools to implement meaningful change. Drawn from research, examples of health equity initiatives from across the country, and the wisdom of health equity leaders, the guide provides a practical roadmap for transforming care for Black patients, and their families and caregivers.
A doctor’s life-changing realization about empathy after becoming a patient [podcast]
11/12/24 at 03:10 AMA doctor’s life-changing realization about empathy after becoming a patient [podcast] MedPage Today's KevinMD.com; podcast by KevinMD; 11/10/24 Join us for a conversation with Fazlur Rahman, a hematology-oncology physician and author of Our Connected Lives. In this episode, we explore how Fazlur’s journey from physician to patient transformed his understanding of empathy. He reflects on the importance of personal connection in medicine, the impact of a lack of empathy on both doctors and patients, and the need for medical education to include the humanities to foster compassionate care. This episode dives deep into the role empathy plays in improving patient outcomes and doctor-patient relationships. Fazlur Rahman is a hematology-oncology physician and author of Our Connected Lives. He discusses the KevinMD article, “From doctor to patient: a life-changing lesson in empathy.”
Local veteran continues to serve by visiting hospice veterans
11/11/24 at 03:05 AMLocal veteran continues to serve by visiting hospice veterans Lundington Daily News, Lundington, MI; by Shanna Avery; 11/9/24 With love of service to their country, some veterans continue to find ways to serve and make a difference, and Ludington veteran Dick Gregaitis does just that when he visits other veterans as they approach the end of their lives. Gregaitis has been volunteering with Hospice of Michigan in the local area for eight years, where he visits veteran patients. Gregaitis served in the U.S. Navy from Aug. 1962 to 1965, then the U.S. Air Force until he retired in 1986 as senior master sergeant. Gregaitis said he has been around this area, and met his wife of 55 years at Round Lake. He traveled all over while in the military. It is through his own experiences, he shares a bond with other veterans. “To me, it is a way to give back to the community,” he said. “A lot of veterans don’t get people stopping by or talking. They like someone there that knows about the military. I even designed a badge that says, ‘military outreach.’ It is a win/win. I like to do it and I have the time to do it, and they like someone to say hi to.”
"Courageous Conversations" during National Hospice and Palliative Care month
11/05/24 at 02:00 AM"Courageous Conversations" during National Hospice and Palliative Care month NBC Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA; by Laynie Erickson; 11/4/24 November is National Hospice and Palliative Care month. Tri-Cities Chaplaincy is spending this month embracing what they call "courageous conversations". Laurie Jackson, CEO of Tri-Cities Chaplaincy said this month they are encouraging the community to have conversations early about hospice and palliative care. Jackson said making these kind of decisions in crisis is challenging. "It always seems like its too soon to have 'that' conversation until it's too late," said Jackson. Although these "courageous conversations" can be difficult, Jackson said it is important to explore your options. "It always seems like its too soon to have 'that' conversation until it's too late," said Jackson. Although these "courageous conversations" can be difficult, Jackson said it is important to explore your options.
Asian American diversity and representation in the health care workforce, 2007 to 2022
11/02/24 at 03:55 AMAsian American diversity and representation in the health care workforce, 2007 to 2022JAMA Network Open; Michelle Ko, MD, PhD; Kevin Dinh, MS; Sarah Iv, BS; Monica Hahn, MD; 10/24In this serial cross-sectional study of American Community Survey 1-year estimates from 2007 to 2022, Filipinx Americans had consistently high representation among registered nurses and nursing assistants; Indian, Pakistani, and Chinese Americans predominated among physicians, whereas Hmong and Cambodian American representation in medicine remained substantially below general population representation. Bangladeshi and Chinese American representation grew among home health aides over the study period. These findings suggest that aggregation of Asian American subgroups into a single racialized group erases substantial inequities in health workforce diversity.