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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

Listen for what the health care teams did well, areas where they could improve, and how administrators can champion hospice and palliative care services to make end of life easier for patients and their families. This led her to also become a board-certified pediatric hospice and palliative nurse in 2009.

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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. But most tell me that’s never where they wanted to end up and certainly not where they wanted to die.