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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

-Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. First we have Michael Kearney, who’s a palliative and hospice doctor at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara and author of several books. Canadians are welcoming.

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Former Mercy Health CEO: U.S. Needs to Embrace ‘Death Literacy’

Hospice News

This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. But they don’t always understand what that means.

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Finding Nursing Career Inspiration

Daily Nurse

Nursing does not have a reputation for being generally easy work, and a career as a nurse presents many potential challenges. Other nurses and healthcare professionals: Career inspiration can be found in blogs, books , videos, journals, podcasts, and other forms of communication created and conveyed by fellow healthcare professionals.

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Episode 37: Closing the Books

Living With Hospice

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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The Ultimate Spring Bucket List To Help Nurses Recharge

Diversity Nursing

Embrace the present moment fully, allowing yourself to be fully present and aware of your surroundings. 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.

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Your Nursing Career Mitochondria

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

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. If your original motivations for entering the profession no longer hold true for you in the present, some soul searching may reveal where you need to look next for inspiration.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

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.