The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stephanie, the hospice nurse, made sure Jerry felt up to the ceremony. Junann brought a book she made for the ceremony so that Jerry, who can’t hear well, could read and follow along. She worked with the courthouse to get the license. And Kristy, our social worker, was busy with a few surprises.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Hospice nurse, death doula and educator Suzanne OBrien seeks to change the conversation about death and end-of-life care, both nationally and among individual families. Hospice News sat down with OBrien to discuss the new book, as well as strategies hospices can use to connect with families earlier.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2025

Several hospice nurses have emerged as social media influencers and authors who aim to demystify death and dying for the general public. Individually and collectively, these nurses have amassed millions of social media followers on platforms such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Today, she has more than 4.2

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We could also say that the most well-lived career is one where you make choices based on your deepest desires, not what professors, colleagues, family, blogs, books, and articles say. When you thoughtfully consider your nursing career, is it what you honestly want it to be? They say that a life well-lived is the best life of all.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 23, 2020

Try to present calming activities in the afternoon and evening such as maybe watching an old movie or listening to soothing music, maybe do some bird watching out the window, or read to them from their favorite book. Ask the doctor about any medications that could positively impact those symptoms.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2025

It also publishes a podcast and has produced a childrens book designed to help kids better understand death and dying. Hospice News sat down with Matzo to discuss Everyone Dies and her work to change how Americans encounter and perceive death. So we wrote a children’s book called Everyone Dies.

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Shining Light Hospice

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Work with your hospice nurse to see if any modifications need to be made to prevent any choking risk. A warm blanket, a soft shawl, a lightly scented candle, or a book they have been wanting to read. There are plenty of sites with holiday recipes for those with chronic illness.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 19, 2023

He’s also the creator of NurseCon at Sea , one of the largest and most popular nursing conferences, and the NurseCon App, which provides free continuing nursing education courses, and author of the #1 best-selling children’s book “ I Want To Be A Nurse When I Grow Up ” just like the nurse from his favorite TV medical drama.

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The Bucket-List Blog

JUNE 10, 2016

Tickets were purchased and a hotel stay was booked at The Capitol Hotel, which offered a discounted rate. MHR shared a portion of the ticket cost with Hospice and the family agreed to share the cost of the hotel. When Dorsie saw her at MHR again on June 8 for her hospice nursing visit, Brenda was still radiating happiness.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

Its like the old saying, Dont judge a book by its cover. Working in hospice has given me the opportunity to open the book, educate myself and others, and truly explore all that hospice can provide. The biggest lesson has been to stay open-minded, even about things that seem intimidating or unfamiliar.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 Alex: And Hsien and Sammy together podcast on the Waiting Room Revolution, which is available wherever you can download your podcasts, and are the authors of a book called Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest. million followers.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2024

Misconceptions about and limited awareness of hospice is among the industry’s largest headwinds, a problem that one hospice nurse in California is working to solve. Julie McFadden entered the nursing profession 16 years ago, starting her career in intensive care units. You’re still working as a hospice nurse.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

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

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AJN Off the Charts

MAY 9, 2022

At the time I was working as a per diem home hospice nurse and I knew instinctively that I could not care well for dying patients when I was worried about dying myself. That is, I felt I owed it to my patients to take a leave of absence, but as a nurse I felt like a failure. Wasn’t I supposed to be invulnerable?

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

Nursing is a second career for Derek J. Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. He’s also written two books to increase knowledge of end-of-life care.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As hospice nurses, we embark on a journey filled with compassion, empathy, and the desire to provide comfort to those in their final stages of life. The Ethical Dilemmas in End of Life Care: Hospice care is unique and although it revolves around providing comfort and dignity to individuals at the end of life.

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Journey With Deanna

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

I spoke with Nina, longtime hopice nurse, last week about her book and this week's podcast is a glimpse into what makes her tick.In From Sun to Sun, Nina Angela McKissock goes from home to home and within the residential hospice to give care, and shares her experiences and lessons learned in reflections about dying.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Being a hospice nurse can leave you feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. If so, then you need these 7 simple ways to get organized for hospice nurses. Unlike working at a hospital or nursing home, you don’t just get to pop back into your patients’ rooms after you leave. Sound familiar? Prep Ahead of Time.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

So, very short time to return on their investment, which concerns us because the hospices that probably a lot of us grew up to love and refer to are ones that have potentially been around for decades and we’re seeing more and more hospices, I always think back to our episode about this a thousand hospices just in LA County- Alex: Thousand.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

These realizations led Barbara to sit down and write, gone from my site, the little blue book that has changed the hospice industry. We love this book, especially me, I like to show off my copy. Doulas, When, when, when I look back at my career, the first five years of my nursing was patient care.

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Solace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The hospice nurse, end-of-life doula and author of The Hospice Heart offers a few tips for coping with the often emotional and visceral task: Tackle one drawer at a time. The apartments were filled with journals, notes, letters, postcards and thousands of books. I get both of these responses. Neither is wrong or right.”.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The Burned-Out Hospice Nurse I saw this last July when caring for my father, who died on a Sunday morning at 5 a.m. I called hospice to alert them, who then sent a hospice nurse to pronounce his death. When the nurse arrived at about 6:30 a.m.,

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

And welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Ira Byock, who is a author and well-known, has written several books about hospice, inspired many to go into the field, and is the founder of- Ira: The Institute for Human- Alex: The Institute for Human Caring. How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day?

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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?

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

There’s not a rule book for ’em. I literally had a hospice nurse hysterically breakdown on me on the phone. There’s not a concrete way to prepare every patient and family for exactly how to respond to any dementia disorder or symptoms that come because none of the symptoms are exactly the same.

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Red M.D.

OCTOBER 11, 2020

He enrolled in home hospice after his colorectal cancer stopped responding to chemotherapy, and from what I gathered from the hospice nurse, had been in a steep decline for the past several weeks. Several weeks passed and a gift from Dr. Gus’ family, a pocket-sized book by Dr. Seuss, appeared at my workstation in the ICU.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 5, 2020

Friends at work, friends, school neighbors, people from the church, even the book club. Transcript: Hello, come on in and welcome to another episode of Living With Hospice. This nurse got on her knees alongside this woman put her arm around her and eventually wept with her. It can be a combination of physical and mental fatigue.

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