Daily Nurse

MAY 8, 2024

Witnessing her family’s dedication to caring for her ailing grandmother at home sparked a flicker of inspiration in Angeleen, slowly but surely nudging her towards a path she initially swore to avoid. But destiny, or perhaps a more potent force like genetics, had other plans.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

He purchased that because my grandmother had dementia. I kind of had a roundabout way of getting into hospice. I wasn’t in the health care field. Initially, my father actually owned an assisted care facility, which he bought in 2006. One day, a home health nurse came into the facility and said, “You should get into home health.”

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Elaine Mansfield

APRIL 23, 2024

For other stories about my grandmother, see Safe in the Great Mother’s Bed. The post My Grandmother’s Diary Imagined From Stories She Told appeared first on Elaine Mansfield. Grandma Edna suffered many hardships and family deaths, but she was always the Great Mother.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 16, 2024

Later that year, my grandmother who lived in a very small remote town in the mountains, was diagnosed with colon cancer. After the experience with my grandmother, I knew I wanted to pursue the role of an ET nurse. So, I always volunteered to have the ostomy patients within my assignment. What attracted you to this specialty?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

However, everything changed when a compassionate hospice nurse approached my grandmother and asked her a simple question: “Have you told him you’re going to be okay?” ” Moved by this suggestion, my grandmother went to my grandfather and reassured him.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

"Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes" [link] Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog [link].

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

AUGUST 19, 2022

Keisha has always enjoyed helping others, saying that she followed in the footsteps of her loving grandmother, who raised her and was a caregiver herself. From a very young age, Keisha looked up to her grandmother and noticed how kind and compassionate she was. Kamaria went with her.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dilon’s father and grandmother are both UNLV School of Nursing alumni and share an affinity for nursing that has persisted from one generation to the next. When Dilon Petersen graduated from the UNLV School of Nursing in August, he became the third member of his family to do so. And we’re thrilled to name Peterson, a […].

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Palliverse

APRIL 12, 2024

Or was it the grandmother? This ruled out the grandmother who did not have a large family. Photo by Hansjörg Keller on Unsplash I was in my office and I heard the sound of people crying including children. I wasn’t sure which direction it came from, was it in front of me or behind me? The young mother or the older mother?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

It became clear to me that there was a profound need for a more compassionate, patient-centered approach to end-of-life care after putting my grandmother on hospice. What drew you to the hospice industry? She received inconsistent, impersonal and fragmented care, often leaving my family confused and fearful.

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Palliverse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

One registrar talked about how upset he had been when he visited his grandmother who lived in a residential care facility in Asia. His grandmother had refused food and drink which is common in end-stage dementia. Not so for the registrar’s grandmother who had not been able to consent to any treatments for several years.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 28, 2023

How it all Began You became a nurse because your grandmother and mother were both nurses. Your grandmother told fascinating stories about being a nurse during World War II, with air raid sirens, soldiers missing limbs, and lives lost and saved all around her.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 17, 2024

My grandmother migrated to Brooklyn in 1969 from North Carolina with her three daughters at a time when being black in the South was still dangerous. My grandmother struggled with heart disease and diabetes and suffered a stroke, as do many African Americans in underserved communities. Why did you become a nurse?

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Palliverse

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

A mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother died. Photo by The Good Funeral Guide on Unsplash. This news spread quickly around the world. Condolences were sent from many different countries. Nothing would ever be the same again for her family or their world. An end of an era.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

.” CAPT Petrovanie-Green was born in Trinidad and Tobago and raised by her maternal grandmother until she was 13. But Petrovanie-Green never forgot the important lessons from her grandmother. At that age, she and her brother immigrated to the United States to live with her mother, stepfather, and sister.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

MARCH 6, 2023

My love and passion for working with seniors began from my experience of taking care of my grandmother, who was in hospice. My dad was a pilot and took me on many flights, so my interest in learning to fly began at a young age. I’m very excited about my role with Freedom.

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Chicago Caregiving

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The mother of eight, grandmother of 27, and great-grandmother of six initially went straight into college after high school. School: University of Illinois at Chicago. Graduation: June 2023. For Czenzi Jones, graduation has gone from distant goal to impending reality.

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Elaine Mansfield

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As I praise the beauty and wonder they bring me, I think of grandmothers and children waiting for them in Mexico, creating Monarch altars with orange marigolds and sugar candy to honor Monarchs as returning souls of the dead. Their wings soon open wide like a boat with orange sails as they catch a ride on the wind.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 27, 2023

My first calling in healthcare was when I was in my teens, and I helped my mother care for my ailing grandmother in our family home. I have worked in general medical and oncology, and for the last 22 years, I have been a vascular access specialist (IV, PICC, Midline placement). What are some of the challenges you face?

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Palliverse

OCTOBER 13, 2022

His grandmother had never learnt English, and all conversations at home were in the indigenous language. He missed his home and he craved being able to talk in his grandmother tongue. Grandmother’s rules applied and only their native language would be spoken in their home. Photo by Haley Rivera on Unsplash.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 11, 2022

Later on in my life, my grandmother was diagnosed with kidney cancer, and I became keener on medical professionals, specifically doctors and nurses. I aspired to be like them as they advanced the healing of people and promoted good health and well-being.

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Hospice 101

APRIL 27, 2020

My own grandmother and grandfather were able to maintain a long-distance relationship during World War II while my grandfather served overseas for years during the war. I have been sending my grandmother free printable trivia questions or puzzles or mind challenges weekly (google search will help you find all different themes).

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Chicago Caregiving

JUNE 16, 2022

Chicagoan Kris McCabe’s Instagram and TikTok accounts are peppered with sweet moments with her grandmother, Mary Padovani. Kris McCabe with her grandmother, Mary Padovani. Enhancing quality of life for people with dementia. Videos show the two singing a Patsy Cline song and sharing a hug as they swap, “I love yous.”

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 15, 2024

I was also able to embrace this flexibility when my grandmother fell ill, needing more of my time and attention. The support and empathy I received during this time reaffirmed my decision to work with them. They understand that life can be unpredictable and are accommodating when emergencies arise.

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Chicago Caregiving

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The mother of four and grandmother of nine had a vision back then and made it a reality, just as she’s doing now. In a neighborhood made up of 80% Black people, Farley says, “We’ve been told a lot what we can’t do, what we can’t be.”.

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Elaine Mansfield

JULY 5, 2022

Like her grandmother, she grew vegetables and picked summer fruit. In July 1972, they moved with their baby boy to a crumbling farmhouse on a dirt road and immediately got to work. She cleared cobwebs in the cellar while he made shelves from old barn boards.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Porter says she got into healthcare because her great-grandmother raised her and was the Florence Nightingale in their small town in Jamaica. My great-grandmother raised me, and I called her the Florence Nightingale of our town in Jamaica because she would take me and visit her older family members. Why did you become a nurse?

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Palliverse

JANUARY 21, 2023

Pure pride beams in the smile of his grandmother as she receives the auspicious gift. The young ones may not be able to make it back due to university or work commitments. The eldest grandson proudly presents his grandparents with the first red packet he earned himself in his first year of working.

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Palliverse

JUNE 12, 2022

She was the proud grandmother of six, with ages ranging between 2 to 18 years old. She and her husband had worked hard, and raised their family well. Their children had grown up and had made good lives for themselves and their own families. She was admitted for end of life care and had been comfortable.

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Nurse.com

MAY 16, 2023

In 1949, her father, who was 12 at the time, survived a mass shooting in New Jersey that took the lives of thirteen people including his mother, father, and grandmother. He survived because his mother hid him in a closet. Fast forward to February 14, 2018.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

She had the same name as my grandmother, and I had her grandmother's name. When Mamie Wilson (pseudonym) became my hospice patient, she had several unusual qualities that made me wonder. At sixty-five, she was the youngest person assigned to me after years of volunteering at various Detroit nursing homes.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2022

And my, he, my, my grandmother Helen was a feisty lady and she said, well, I don’t think him home. They kept him alive and well, and without pressure ulcers or skin tears for 19 years in my grandmother’s home. You know, my background actually in home care begins before I was even born with my grandfather. And day story.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 17, 2024

I would hear stories about my grandmother, who was a nurse midwife , stories of how she helped others heal, and stories of the need that would always exist for people to receive healthcare. I ’ m surprised to say that I have been working in this field for more than 23 years! Why did you become a nurse?

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

APRIL 25, 2023

She is looking at the next stage of her life to enjoy spending more time with her mother and grandmother. . “My whole life has revolved around my boys and I am beyond proud of them,” she said. Don’t tell my mom, but my grandma is truly my best friend!”

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The Nurse Break

JUNE 19, 2023

Those mothers and fathers and grandfathers and great grandmothers and younger people too, who all find themselves relying on compassion and care and provision of some sort of day-to-day quality of life within this silo of the health system are often the most vulnerable, disenfranchised and ignored. things are now beyond grim.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 14, 2022

She was also a great friend, aunt, mother, and grandmother. She served on the initial boards of directors for the California Indian Basketweavers’ Association (CIBA) and the San Francisco Quilting Guild. She was an avid quilter as well as a Giants, 49ers, and Warriors fan throughout her entire life.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 26, 2023

I would hear stories about my grandmother, who was a nurse midwife; stories of how she helped others heal; and the need that would always exist for people to receive healthcare. I’m surprised to say that I have been working in this field for more than 23 years! Why did you become a nurse? My interest in nursing peaked at an early age.

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