Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

My daughter Abbey was born in 2007 as a healthy baby girl, but within two or three months had all these issues and was medically fragile,” Keller told Hospice News. “We Parents, guardians and families across the country need stronger respite and end-of-life support when a child becomes terminally or seriously ill, Keller stated. “My

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 21, 2024

Wrapping her dolls in bandages and tending to them as a young girl, Carr knew from an early age that her path was in nursing. Grace Carr, a resident of Allentown, Pennsylvania, embarked on her nursing journey at the age of 17 with a dream she had cherished since childhood. Luke’s Sacred Heart Campus in Allentown.

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Elaine Mansfield

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

I’d been a daddy’s girl, a grandpa’s girl, and devoted to my older brother. There was no mention of Biblical women in Sunday School classes, except for a brief appearance of the Virgin Mary as a teenage girl veiled in blue at Christmas. with my grandpa.

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Donna Cardillo, The Inspiration Nurse

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

She was found unconscious in the girls’ … Jan’s Story Read More » The post Jan’s Story first appeared on Donna Cardillo, RN.

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Palliverse

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The girl needed parental support but the girl’s mother had died and her father had to go back to their home country to deal with urgent matters. The pastor and her husband (also a pastor) arranged for the girl’s father to return to New Zealand. The pastor stayed with the girl at our hospice for the last weeks of her short life.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Artunez gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Yesenia Patricia, and surprisingly, for a first-time mother, Doctor Cooper noted, it went quickly. She did really well.” Once Yesenia was born, Andres dried her off and kept her warm until the medical team came and took the family to a maternity room in the hospital.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 9, 2024

According to the WHO, the HPV vaccine is key and the goal is to fully vaccinate 90 percent of girls before they reach 15 years of age. With vaccination, screening, and treatment, the world can be on track to eliminate this form of cancer which killed 300,000 women in 2018.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 28, 2023

You’ve got this, girl,’ I told her. “I’d had Tyler the year before, and he was my third [child],” West says. “I I told Stacy about that and how my kids had reacted to their new little brother. You can do this.’ We bonded over that, which helped her become more relaxed.” Fast forward to 2023.

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Palliverse

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I do remember a 16 year old girl.” All the staff were surprised when the girl said her Mum was coming and instead I turned up. ” “I haven’t looked after many 16 year olds in my time at hospice. ” “She was all alone, her father was overseas when she was admitted to your hospice.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JULY 21, 2022

rise-and-shines to get my daughter Emmy ready for showing, I initially said, “Girl, these people are nuts!”. However, after watching a group of tiny 7-year-olds wake before the sun with smiles, joyfully clean stalls, bathe their ponies, and ride with pride, I was changing my tune to, “Girl, your horse friends are solid people.”.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 11, 2024

STEM initiatives by organizations as diverse as the Boys and Girls Clubs of America , the Department of Defense , and the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity encourage young people to explore potential STEM-related careers. To remain competitive with other countries that are quickly advancing on the technology front (e.g.,

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Palliverse

APRIL 8, 2024

The other day she wore a vintage Spice Girls t-shirt. That it is okay to feel sad. We’re humans, we know something about loss, it’s okay to feel our emotions. It’s okay to do some extra self-care when we need it. I had asked her, “tell me what you want, what you really really want?” We had laughed together and talked about her toys.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 10, 2024

Dunham is the author of How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School (FA Davis), the best-selling puberty guides The Boy’s Body Book and The Girl’s Body Book (Cidermill Press), and a collection of hilarious tragicomic essays, Freak of Nurture (Topside Press). . “They really identified with the theme,” she says.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JUNE 6, 2024

This girl loves rule books. Of course she does … Kathryn Kinder, a girl who sticks to the plan. She knows the entire layout of the event, she knows who plays when on each of the three stages, she knows when the doors open, she knows what you can and cannot bring in. Come on, Dad,” she says. “I I know the best way out of here.”

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Nurse.com

JUNE 1, 2023

Soon, we got married, and two baby girls came right away. Stage three: Hashing a new plan Since our girls were now in school, I took a job as a nursing assistant at a nursing home. While my classmates took jobs in hospitals, I welcomed another baby girl with my second husband, Charles. I passed the NCLEX for RNs in 1993.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A baby girl — still in her car seat — somehow was ejected from the car. I remember the beautiful little girl who immediately won my heart with her big brown eyes and locks of brown hair. A small truck ran a red light and went speeding straight into a car that was turning left. The truck kept going, but the car got spun around.

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Elaine Mansfield

MAY 21, 2024

I loved this snuggly girl who stayed near me when we walked. She followed me and pushed against me in the way Willow had disliked, but I loved Disco’s sleeping body on top of my blankets, warming me at night. She was my little black shadow, always nearby. I understood since that’s what I wanted, too.

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Euro-American Connections & Homecare

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s where I had my baby girl, who isn’t a baby anymore. To this day, I still can’t bear the thought of driving by my former home. That home is where I made many memories with my mom who recently passed away. I felt so much security and support when I was there.

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Together for Short Lives

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I am now 23 and 21 years down the road now from the loss of our sweet girls Laura and Lynn. Firstly, everyone is individual and experiences grief, even the same kind of loss, differently, although there will inevitably be some of the same feelings involved. In some ways I feel it is harder as […].

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AJN Off the Charts

JUNE 1, 2023

But a lot of this has focused on the struggles of adolescent girls and LGBTQ+ teens. The increase in youth mental health issues has garnered considerable attention in recent times, with the U.S. surgeon general calling it “ the defining public health crisis of our time. ” Undoubtedly, these issues deserve our utmost attention and support.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 5, 2023

Her newest inspiration, likely rooted in wanting to spend more time with big sis Kathryn, is to be the world’s best ball girl for the high school basketball team, which Dad coaches. As with many of my blogs, here I gain inspiration from my family, and in this case a story from another parent about my 8-year-old daughter, Emmy.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 19, 2023

So she used her experience and wisdom from her nursing career to also launch the Nurse T Doll , designed to instill a love for the medical field in young girls and boys, fostering ambitions to become the patient care professionals of the future.

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Elaine Mansfield

MAY 24, 2022

A black dressed Amish girl smiled shyly as she helped me. This morning, my local son Anthony and I drove to the Amish Countryside Market and bought flowers and vegetable plants, a spring plant buying ritual at a greenhouse I’d never visited. Bronze Fennel? It’s right over here.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

They showed me a picture that I hadn’t seen before — a picture of Dorothy and another girl in sun bonnets near a garden. When her daughters came to pack up her things, I shared with them what she had said. They cried. Eunice was Dorothy’s sister. I still think of her every time I hear “You Are My Sunshine” or wear my sun bonnet.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MAY 5, 2024

However, climate change has been described as a ‘ threat multiplier ’ and an issue that is not gender-neutral with its impacts affecting women and girls disproportionately as well as other minoritised groups who may be ‘less visible’. It can feel difficult to find the priority on which to focus our efforts and attention.

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Elaine Mansfield

APRIL 11, 2023

We let Willow choose her spot and my old girl lay on her side on the grass in the sun. I feel the Artemis archetype within in my love for the forest and my dogs. My kind vet Dr. Vivien Surman helped us through this transition with calm patience. She was trusting, peaceful, and ready with me at her side.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JUNE 16, 2024

A recent report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists showed that violence and abuse are driving mental illness in women and girls, leading to serious mental health symptoms, such as suicidal ideation and psychotic symptoms. Secondly, the impact of domestic abuse on women’s mental health should never be underestimated.

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Palliverse

JANUARY 9, 2024

The little girl would laugh and babble as brothers and sisters played with her. He couldn’t handle much solid food. He preferred to drink liquids, only small amounts. Her older siblings would come in after school and the children would all play together. They enjoyed that she had become more fun to play with than when she was younger.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I hope the little girl who made all those plans is proud of me. I give back to the community by facilitating workshops for child welfare professionals to teach them how to better engage with this population and also by serving as a mentor. It’s a full circle moment when I see my youth succeed.

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Euro-American Connections & Homecare

APRIL 27, 2023

As a young girl growing up in Poland, she was deeply impacted by her mother, who instilled in her a strong sense of love and respect for the elderly. Maggie will share her belief that homecare should not only focus on physical health and safety, but also on emotional and social well-being.

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Elaine Mansfield

MARCH 1, 2022

Believe me, little girl, there’s no way to explain the healing peace of a winter sunset. I sit next to her, pause, and exhale deeply as the sun sinks down my spine and into my belly. I breathe with the changing sky. Why are we stopping here?” Disco’s round brown eyes seem to ask. Want another cookie?”.

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Comforcare Home Care

MAY 31, 2022

Girl Scouts, JCS of So. Giving Back to the Community - We are a proactive agency that cares about our So. Florida community. We support various organizations such as the military, the Alzheimer's Association, ALS Association, Mt. Sinai Cancer Center, American Cancer Society. FL, and Rotary Club to name a few.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 11, 2022

After showering, applying deodorant twice, and cranking up her car’s air conditioning against the summer heat (“I will not be the sweaty, smelly fat girl,” she thinks), Eva arrives at the doctor’s office ready to get to the bottom of what ails her: a newly swollen, tender abdomen, growing breathlessness, and debilitating fatigue.

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AJN Off the Charts

JUNE 6, 2023

Within the confines of his perfectly controlled life, I was subjected to restrictive diets and forced to starve myself, all in pursuit of fitting his external vision of a perfect 16-year-old girl. I didn’t match his mural, but at least I had “a pretty face.” In this hospital bed, my father’s wall became brittle and translucent.

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Palliverse

JULY 2, 2022

A young girl had grown up into a young woman over a few weeks. She chose to stop her treatments and wanted nature to take its course. We provided symptom control medications to keep her comfortable. She died a week later. Between the first and second admissions, she had grown up a lot. She went out on her terms and did it her way.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

As a young girl, Nakala always dreamed of being a chef. She really cares for her clients and what she does! Freedom Home Care Hero: Nakala Griffin. Please join us in congratulating Nakala Griffin, Freedom Home Care’s Caregiver of the Month! She absolutely loved to cook and enjoyed serving others her culinary creations.

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Chicago Caregiving

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Phon recalls the classic Girl Scouts song: “Make new friends, but keep the old. It’s critical to make an effort to stay connected to old friends, but it’s also just as important to create new connections, no matter the circumstances. One is silver, and the other is gold.”

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