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

AJN Off the Charts

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. And, when it felt right, I returned to work in home hospice, a better nurse because of being a patient, and because I had not pressured myself to be a superhuman cancer patient–nurse.

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Taking Care of Our Own

Red M.D.

He enrolled in home hospice after his colorectal cancer stopped responding to chemotherapy, and from what I gathered from the hospice nurse, had been in a steep decline for the past several weeks. Several weeks passed and a gift from Dr. Gus’ family, a pocket-sized book by Dr. Seuss, appeared at my workstation in the ICU.

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

Living With Hospice

And it's available for clergy and deacons and elders from your church or books and tapes and books on tape and podcasts and prayer groups and prayer chains, musicians, millions of other ways to help your caregiver friend, attend to these needs these spiritual needs these emotional needs. It was an in home hospice care situation.