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Ep. 43 - An Insider’s View: An Insider’s View: A Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s Reflections as a Palliative Care Clinician, Caregiver, and Mother

HPNA podcast

Meggan, along with an interdisciplinary committee, started the Pediatric Palliative and Supportive Care program at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Oak Lawn in October of 2012. Her background as a pediatric intensive care nurse is where her love and passion for working with children with critical and chronic illness grew.

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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

The study found that more than half of ED visits among patients with cancer, 51.6%, were identified as potentially preventable, with the absolute number of potentially preventable ED visits increasing substantially between 2012 and 2019.