Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Each trainee receives exposure to different interdisciplinary aspects of hospice, including skills labs in end-of-life nursing and social work, communications, EMR systems and ongoing educational courses around the philosophy of hospice care, according to Garcia.

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HPNA podcast

MAY 2, 2024

She earned her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania. She is also passionate about teaching and empowering nurses and is a proud End of Life Nursing Education (ELNEC) trainer. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania.

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AJN Off the Charts

MARCH 28, 2024

Editor’s note: Hui-wen Sato is a pediatric ICU nurse in California and a regular writer for this blog who has gone deeply into the topic of grief, her own and that of patients and their families. Here is a key passage from a TED-style talk (see video below) she gave at the last End Well Project conference in November 2023.

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HPNA podcast

JUNE 10, 2024

She earned her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania. She is also passionate about teaching and empowering nurses and is a proud End of Life Nursing Education (ELNEC) trainer. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer.

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AJN Off the Charts

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Staying connected to something greater. Photo courtesy of Pexels/Pixabay. In a world that is constantly asking more of us, how can we stay connected to ourselves, to something greater, to a sense of meaning and purpose in our lives? This question guides most of my work, and my personal practices.

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AJN Off the Charts

JUNE 6, 2023

“Nurses make horrible patients,” my dad’s words echoed in my mind as I stood beside his hospital bed. Confined to this cold and sterile room, he, once a seasoned nurse, now teetered between worlds, fighting to maintain control of his crumbling body and the walls that had always surrounded him.

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