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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

Most nurses I know enjoy Nurses Week as an acknowledgment of the very important work we do every day. However, regardless of how management discusses “self-care,” it’s an important idea: that nurses need breaks, moments to relax, have fun, and nourish our own humanity so that we come to work ready to humanely care for patients.

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Ep. 25 - All About Death Cafe

HPNA podcast

About Shari: Shari Alton is an ADN RN, CHPN with 45 years of experience in the nursing field. For the last 20 years, Shari has worked at Hospice of the Valley, in Phoenix, Arizona, as an RNCM in Home Hospice. Currently, Shari is the President of the Phoenix Chapter of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association.

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Taking Care of Our Own

Red M.D.

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. ” His wife, a former nurse and now his full-time caregiver, looked at me and sadly shook her head.

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