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Hospice Nurses Take a Holistic Approach to Dementia Care

Nurse.com

This can only be achieved if care teams, including hospice nurses, know the latest evidence-based strategies for dementia care. But hospice nurses also recognize the challenges these patients and their families face every day and are ready to help ease their distress and fear. million cases in 2019 to 152.8

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100 Men in Nursing – amazing male nurses, midwives and students

The Nurse Break

Men make up approximately 11% of the Australian nursing workforce (Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia, 2019). I never wanted to be a nurse, I always thought I’d be a buddhist monk (true), but the very first day I volunteered at a hospice, I knew I was going to be a nurse for the rest of my life.

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