Active Listening Key to Quality Palliative Care

Nursing home residents want to know the staff who care for them and to be known in return. Such reciprocal relationships are central to palliative care and, more broadly, to person-directed living, but they often don ’t happen without concerted efforts to prepare and support staff for these relationships, said Anna Ortigara, RN, MS, FAAN, at the annual conference of AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
Source: Caring for the Ages - Category: Health Management Authors: Source Type: news