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The Ask-Tell-Ask Approach in Four Steps

1-800-HOSPICE

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18 best books for nurses about grief, death and loss

The Nurse Break

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. Not just for the bereaved, Bearing the Unbearable will be required reading for grief counselors, therapists and social workers, clergy of all varieties, educators, academics, and medical professionals. Rando, Ph.D.,

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