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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Derek Flores

Minority Nurse

Nursing is a second career for Derek J. Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. He’s also written two books to increase knowledge of end-of-life care.

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Ep.18: BK Books with Barbara Karnes: Why Approaching Hospice Holistically is Necessary to the Success of the Care Continuum

Home Care Pulse

These realizations led Barbara to sit down and write, gone from my site, the little blue book that has changed the hospice industry. We love this book, especially me, I like to show off my copy. Doulas, When, when, when I look back at my career, the first five years of my nursing was patient care. So Oliver, I like this.

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

Living With Hospice

Friends at work, friends, school neighbors, people from the church, even the book club. Transcript: Hello, come on in and welcome to another episode of Living With Hospice. Let's start with the fact that there is a real thing called the grief cycle or the grief process. They know what the grief process is like.

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