Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Her first publication, a children’s book entitled Daniel’s World: A Book About Children with Disabilities , is the closest to her heart. She has offered and reviewed many publications relevant to the topics of palliative care, ethics, hospice, and communication.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 19, 2021

In this episode of Living With Hospice, Mitch addresses the many facets of 'closing the books' at the end of our lives, including practical planning, reviewing the bucket list and the often uncomfortable topic of saying goodbye. Also part of closing the books, for someone who's dying, is to say goodbye. It can turn into a hot mess!

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. She has a book out. She also has a book out, shout out those folks. We go through a lot of his work, including some of the comics below. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Just read the news or the daily feed and there’s enough going on in the world to make us spin faster and faster, out of control. Weekends, week night, Sunday afternoons – booked up already as our diaries and calendars fill with the rush of either getting it all done before Christmas, or just getting to Christmas.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 13, 2023

If you’re familiar with this comic book phenomenon, what would have happened to Spider-Man so many times if he’d dismissed his Spidey-sense as just so much mental noise? We can ignore that still small voice inside of us — perhaps at our peril or that of our patients — or we can choose to nurture, feed, and water it. But I digress.)

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Elaine Mansfield

JULY 5, 2022

She canned to feed the family in winter and arranged the jars on the shelves in a rainbow of color, red tomatoes next to blushing apricots, pale pear next to yellow beets. One project at a time for almost four decades while he taught full time 100 miles away and wrote three books.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JULY 25, 2022

Especially at a young age, prior to professional training or advanced education, work is often a utilitarian exercise, while it can also feed our sense of pride and purpose and, perhaps, aspirations for more. Water and feed your nursing career with conscious creativity and attention, and it will feed you from the inside out.

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AJN Off the Charts

JUNE 12, 2024

I may be compelled to face danger, but never to fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.” One person can indeed make change, whether it be to institute an organizational policy, sit on a board of directors, write a publication or even a book, invent a product to fill a need.

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Diversity Nursing

MARCH 26, 2024

Bird Watching : Dive into the fascinating world of bird watching by grabbing a pair of binoculars and a bird identification book. Try bringing some bird seed with you to feed the local wildlife. Outdoor Reading : Find a cozy spot in the park or your backyard and immerse yourself in a good book while enjoying the warmth of the sun.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 13, 2022

If my shift yesterday was ridiculously physical, I need to give myself permission to say no to my default cleanup mode, let the housework go, find a quiet (and relatively clean) corner of the home to sit down with a book or nap for an hour. Recognize that we operate ‘on steroids’ as nurses and mothers.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

In the case of radiology, they feed these bazillion radiographs to an artificial intelligence, so they also feed it what happened, what the outcome was, what happened in reality. ” So instead of reading a book, we’ll just read it on an iPad. Sei: I wonder if there’s a analogy between the internet 1.0

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 23, 2022

Countless books have been written about Don Quixote and the true meaning of the story and its symbols, and I'm by no means an authority on the subject. Choosing Our Battles We nurses have lives to live, families to feed, children to raise, and loved ones to care for. Are there behaviors, practices, or beliefs that just have to change?

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A nursing career needs a great deal of feeding and watering; there are so many moving parts, and there's a lot to do in order to keep them all happy and flourishing. He has contributed chapters to a number of books related to the nursing profession. What impetus, desires, goals, or motivations drive you forward?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. Alex: A feeding tube. Eric: The Hidden Harms of CPR. Sunita: There we go. Eric: You’ve done a lot, you’re a prolific author. What prompted you to write this piece in the New Yorker? I know, man, I just screwed up.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Mariah 15:00 In books and literature that’s out in public, like the body keeps the score is probably one that many people have heard of, but there are others that I think talk about it more now than has been in the past. But I think that there’s been a lot of evolution to how we even talk about what is a traumatic event.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

The following is a true nursing home experience that my hospice patient shared with me about an unusual trip she said she had taken the day before I visited her: (Excerpt from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes ) “What did you do today?” I asked Rose after feeding her. “Me? Hey, that’s great.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JUNE 27, 2022

In Victorian times, nurses were often seen as "loose women" and "opium users" with poor morals, gallivanting with doctors when they should have been home in the kitchen baking cookies, feeding babies, and ministering to their husbands' needs. He has contributed chapters to a number of books related to the nursing profession.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And you feed the medicine in. Eric: I got another question then, feeding on that, thoughts on how we can promote leadership in palliative care social work. Eric: We actually did a podcast with Bridget Sumser who had a wonderful book, but we talked about the role, especially, and primary palliative care social work.

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Accessible Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Many cultures believe that the best way to show love is through feeding someone. Some things to consider for a self-care basket are bath bombs, bath oils, candles, snacks, activities such as their favorite magazine or puzzle book, a book to read, or other comfort items such as socks.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

APRIL 3, 2022

These stories from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes describe typical mealtime experiences with residents living with dementia: I continued talking to Naomi, my assigned hospice patient, and assisting her while monitoring others at the table. I noticed that Petra had not touched any of her food.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2021

My book, Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes , includes a chapter on intergenerational partnerships between schools and nursing homes. I know your words make me feel better, feed my heart with praise, help me care about others the way you care about me.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It is a book into itself. And if you work in home health, you know, that book backwards and forwards. So there’s a book, and I’m sure some of you guys listening, hopefully a lot of you have heard of it. Here’s the book in my office. It’s like half a little half size book.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As author, professor, and activist Derrick Bell states in his wonderful book, Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth , "Trying to simultaneously balance my dreams and needs is tough, and requires an ongoing assessment of who I am, what I believe, value, and desire." What aspects of work feed my emotional and spiritual lives?

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Photo by Eric Ward on Unsplash.com Most of us need to work in order to put food on the table; and whether we're living through a pandemic like COVID-19 or times of social unrest like the growing Black Lives Matter movement in response to police brutality, the need to feed, clothe, and support our families doesn't change.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In the hubbub of 21st-century life and professional nursing, we're constantly deluged by the demands of others, financial pressures, the rigors of our work, the demands of family life, and the ceaseless onslaught of emails, information, news feeds, media, and entertainment.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

That, as you were saying, Eric, that bring me joy that I can pursue because they feed me, as well as whatever the reward system that I’m in. So when we were working on this book, intentionally interprofessional, we found such strong evidence that the team itself, simply being in a team, is protective. We should be writing.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By completing the Practical Geriatric Assessment, we’re able to feed in and get a result of the probable toxicity that patients will experience. Or if you want to think of it personally, to keep a fatality out of the book of the surgeon. John: And the other thing that perhaps we could add- Eric: Oh, go ahead John. No, no, please.

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Hope Hospice

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Let’s review some ways to feed these emotional needs. This caregiver might try a couple creative approaches, such as spending time talking about paintings in a coffee table book, asking her to discuss how the artist achieved shadowing, etcetera. Attending to Well-Being.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Suffering is also witnessed by so many of us when we turn on the evening news, listen to the radio, or scroll through a news app on our phone or our Facebook feed. He has contributed chapters to a number of books related to the nursing profession.

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Palliverse

MAY 7, 2022

I have finally completed it today, and it serves as a sneak preview chapter for my upcoming book Bedsides Lessons which will be available for purchase on Amazon Kindle on 09 June 2022. Dad wanted to take her home, he knew that he could feed her food she would like, and that home rehabilitation could be considered. Photo by Sooz.

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Nurse.com

MAY 20, 2022

She became invaluable as a resource for new women booked into the jail with similar pasts. He wore diapers and couldn’t consistently feed himself. Her skin began to glow, the dark, sunken circles under her eyes vanished, and she transformed into a rational, likable person. Jeff was another memorable case.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

She covers topics on death, dying, and hospice from a hospice nurse perspective, and she also has a book coming out called “ Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully ,” which is now available for pre-order. Her book is called Nothing to Fear. Eric: And just a quick note, Sammy too on TikTok and on Instagram.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

You gotta take all this book, learning that you’ve gotten at school and you’ve gotta put it to use in the real world, in acute care, in the hospital setting in order to really hone your skills. And just stop me if I’m going too deep, huh? So, like I mentioned, I worked in employee benefits for a while.

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Living With Hospice

JANUARY 30, 2021

And of course, we've been bombarded by movies and books and all sorts of things. And again, from the movies, the TV shows, the books, the stories, we've been told that, well, death is a bad thing and dying is a bad thing and it's to be avoided at all costs. He goes, "Mitch, we get to feed it crickets and stuff.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. I have written about it in the book. Alex: I love the story of this book, how it starts so locally and then moves on to the Kerala region and then moves to India. Tom: Okay, great.

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Living With Hospice

AUGUST 26, 2020

He was an awesome sounding board as well for me, when I was dealing with tough issues like DNR s and, and feeding tubes and all of those emotional issues that my wife and I had to tackle about our son on his journey. He knew from I guess from what he saw, he knew what we needed. And he just went and helped and did it.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 5, 2020

Friends at work, friends, school neighbors, people from the church, even the book club. Everybody, everybody starts on that emotional roller coaster whether they realize it or not, I mean friends at work, friends, school neighbors, people from the church or the book club. It can be a combination of physical and mental fatigue.

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