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A Time to Heal: Taking a Break from Nursing After a Cancer Diagnosis

AJN Off the Charts

Most nurses I know enjoy Nurses Week as an acknowledgment of the very important work we do every day. However, regardless of how management discusses “self-care,” it’s an important idea: that nurses need breaks, moments to relax, have fun, and nourish our own humanity so that we come to work ready to humanely care for patients.

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Hospitals Healing With Art Therapy Programs

Diversity Nursing

These programs use a wide range of outlets such as drawing, painting, sculpting, collage, and photography as tools to: Process feelings about a new diagnosis. These programs use a wide range of outlets such as drawing, painting, sculpting, collage, and photography as tools to: Process feelings about a new diagnosis. Help manage pain.

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Episode 24: How Do I Get Off this Emotional Roller-coaster?

Living With Hospice

The roller -coaster ride starts when a loved one has received a terminal diagnosis. "The The roller -coaster ride starts when a loved one has received a terminal diagnosis. Friends at work, friends, school neighbors, people from the church, even the book club. I'm not a nurse. I'm not a licensed therapist.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Eric: And Alex, we’ve got one co-host with us and somebody all the way, kind of from the other side of the world with us right now, who is that? Alex: And Tom McNally is a pediatric rehab and palliative care doc at UCSF, and has also spent time in India, working at Pallium. slowed down version. AlexSmithMD . Transcript.