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

AJN Off the Charts

At the time I was working as a per diem home hospice nurse and I knew instinctively that I could not care well for dying patients when I was worried about dying myself. In my new book, Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient , I write about making the decision to take a leave from work and how hard it was.

Books 99
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Taking Care of Our Own

Red M.D.

I was in the midst of my hospice and palliative medicine fellowship, rotating at the local inpatient hospice facility where Dr. Bob had come to die. Several weeks passed and a gift from Dr. Gus’ family, a pocket-sized book by Dr. Seuss, appeared at my workstation in the ICU. John, later in my fellowship year.

Books 52
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Episode 26: How Do I Help The Caregiver?

Living With Hospice

Transcript: Welcome back to another episode of Living With Hospice. I am a very experienced person who's been a caregiver and a longtime hospice volunteer. I've been on the inside and on the outside of hospice. And in my experience, they're very few in hospice care either. It was an in home hospice care situation.