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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

Here are some key examples of how permanent healthcare staffing solutions miss the mark: Lack of Medical Staffing Agility Healthcare facilities face significant challenges in maintaining optimal staffing levels due to the unpredictable nature of patient volumes.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. The other thing … And I really appreciate that you brought up our residents and our medical students.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. But when I retired from government service, I left Kalakkad in 2002. And we actually found that when she was really terminally ill, she had a cancer that was potentially curable if treated early, it was not.

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