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Former Mercy Health CEO: U.S. Needs to Embrace ‘Death Literacy’

Hospice News

This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. But they don’t always understand what that means.

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Episode 37: Closing the Books

Living With Hospice

In this episode of Living With Hospice, Mitch addresses the many facets of 'closing the books' at the end of our lives, including practical planning, reviewing the bucket list and the often uncomfortable topic of saying goodbye. Also part of closing the books, for someone who's dying, is to say goodbye. It can turn into a hot mess!

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The Ultimate Spring Bucket List To Help Nurses Recharge

Diversity Nursing

Embrace the present moment fully, allowing yourself to be fully present and aware of your surroundings. Bird Watching : Dive into the fascinating world of bird watching by grabbing a pair of binoculars and a bird identification book. Try bringing some bird seed with you to feed the local wildlife.

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Finding Nursing Career Inspiration

Daily Nurse

Nursing does not have a reputation for being generally easy work, and a career as a nurse presents many potential challenges. Other nurses and healthcare professionals: Career inspiration can be found in blogs, books , videos, journals, podcasts, and other forms of communication created and conveyed by fellow healthcare professionals.

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Your Nursing Career Mitochondria

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

A nursing career needs a great deal of feeding and watering; there are so many moving parts, and there's a lot to do in order to keep them all happy and flourishing. If your original motivations for entering the profession no longer hold true for you in the present, some soul searching may reveal where you need to look next for inspiration.

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Nurses, Nursing, and the Nature of Suffering

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

I believe that this expression refers to the notion that our emotional attachment to the things that make up our lives (relationships, money, success, possessions, family) are what cause us suffering, and the ability to live in the present without grasping for what we don't already have can help to alleviate that suffering.

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The Conscious Creation of Your Nursing Career

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

As author, professor, and activist Derrick Bell states in his wonderful book, Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth , "Trying to simultaneously balance my dreams and needs is tough, and requires an ongoing assessment of who I am, what I believe, value, and desire." What aspects of work feed my emotional and spiritual lives?

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