Palliative care and hospice providers are enhancing their staff education programs in an effort to better ensure they have a sustainable workforce. In many companies, a changing of the guard is underway. More millennials are enter the health care workforce as more baby boomers retire. As the labor pool changes, employers will also need to […]
As hospice providers contend with industry-wide nursing shortages, some are taking matters into their own hands with in-house residency programs. A lack of hospice-specific clinical training is a significant recruitment barrier. Few nursing students receive exposure to hospice or palliative care during their education, and most do not feel prepared to provide end-of-life care to […]
Katrina Agnew joined UnityPoint Health in December 2021 as vice president of hospice. Though professionally she has cared for terminally ill patients for more than 30 years, her personal experience after her mother’s diagnosis with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer underscored the critical importance of her work. This drives her commitment to expand access to hospice […]
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