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Ep. 30 - Caring for Underserved Patients in Rural and Urban Settings

HPNA podcast

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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How Hospices Are Innovating Clinical Onboarding

Hospice News

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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A Pediatric ICU Nurse Finds Relief in Not Compartmentalizing Hard Emotions Like Grief

AJN Off the Charts

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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NHPCO Welcomes Incoming Vice President of Quality

NHPCO

Gupta has led Transforming Care at the Bedside Teams (TCAB) and served as a master trainer for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) projects.

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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

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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Why Spiritual Care?

AJN Off the Charts

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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Why I Practice Dying: A Nurse’s Perspective

AJN Off the Charts

I’ve been fascinated by death as long as I remember. Just before I turned eight, my Grampa Lewis died. The event left a lasting impression on me. He had gone to the hospital, puffy and deteriorating from kidney disease, at age 56.

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