GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. And I think there’s a really good analogy when we talk about feeding tubes in people with advanced dementia. And your article dives into that.

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Article Feeding Definition Palliate 198

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In managing their careers and busy lives, nurses can be very focused on the "outer" aspects of life and work: family, chores, shopping, resumes, job-hunting, pursuing education, social media, etc. But how do we keep the nurse's inner life fed and watered? Finding Your Inner Self There are many paths to finding your inner self, nurses.

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Feeding Books Nursing Magazine 89

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In terms of your nursing career, what are the mitochondria that power your engine? If you need to stoke the fire of your nursing career, the spark cannot be created in a vacuum. The Driving Force Some of your nursing career mitochondria may originate from the place from which you first decided to become a nurse.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JUNE 27, 2022

There are some very basic things that nurses look for -- and deserve -- in the course of their nursing careers. I posit that there are " Three R's " of nursing, and I identify them as respect, remuneration, and recognition. As I stated in the previous paragraph, nurses lacked recognition of their importance for decades.

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Nursing Magazine 2012 Feeding 89

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In the course of many nurses' healthcare careers, witnessing the illness, suffering, and death of others is commonplace. Aside from witnessing the challenges faced by others, nurses are themselves human beings with their own life experiences, victories, and suffering.

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Nursing Magazine 2012 Feeding 52

Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

or too much ancient history, but you know, like, like a lot of nurses, when I became an RN, I was told you gotta work in acute care. Back then the word was that if you worked in community or home based care that you weren’t really making use of all your nursing skills. Linda Leekley ( 01:36 ): Sure, absolutely.

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Caregiver Vital signs Healthcare Magazine 91

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

On the other hand, when I hear of workarounds to assist patients to die, or even euthanize them, I worry that we’ve gone back to a time when the doctor or nurse knows best – and should be morally permitted to do whatever they think is right, according to their conscience. Do we really trust all doctors and nurses so far?

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Books Healthcare Article End-of-life care 49