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Nursing Behind Bars: My Experience As a Corrections Nurse

Nurse.com

I spent three of those 10 years working as a staff nurse in med-surg and perioperative units and the rest in various positions in home health and hospice. She became invaluable as a resource for new women booked into the jail with similar pasts. Ten years into practicing nursing, I was experiencing burnout, exhaustion, and apathy.

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

Janet is the author of the 4th edition of the book Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer, along with co-authors Molly Collins and BR Daubman. This book is terrific, truly comprehensive, and is a go to resource for when I’m “stuck” taking care of patients with cancer. . Janet: Beautiful.

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

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 my main focus, which I loved in that role was to help develop professional home health and hospice aids.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . We’re going to be talking about pain and your book. It was actually in the first draft of the book.

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