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Hospice Nurse, Author Suzanne O’Brien on Engaging Families Earlier at End of Life

Hospice News

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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A Time to Heal: Taking a Break from Nursing After a Cancer Diagnosis

AJN Off the Charts

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. In my new book, Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient , I write about making the decision to take a leave from work and how hard it was.

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Taking Care of Our Own

Red M.D.

I was in the midst of my hospice and palliative medicine fellowship, rotating at the local inpatient hospice facility where Dr. Bob had come to die. Several weeks passed and a gift from Dr. Gus’ family, a pocket-sized book by Dr. Seuss, appeared at my workstation in the ICU. John, later in my fellowship year.

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Episode 26: How Do I Help The Caregiver?

Living With Hospice

Transcript: Welcome back to another episode of Living With Hospice. I am a very experienced person who's been a caregiver and a longtime hospice volunteer. I've been on the inside and on the outside of hospice. And in my experience, they're very few in hospice care either. It was an in home hospice care situation.