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What Has Happened to Us?

The Caregiving Years Training Academy

The Burned-Out Hospice Nurse I saw this last July when caring for my father, who died on a Sunday morning at 5 a.m. I called hospice to alert them, who then sent a hospice nurse to pronounce his death. When the nurse arrived at about 6:30 a.m., Enjoy Episode 2 of Caregiver Support Live.

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Maintaining a Relationship with your Loved One in a Facility during COVID-19.

Hospice 101

As a hospice nurse during this time of COVID-19, I’m seeing the effects of disconnect on facility patients, I’m seeing the sadness and loneliness in their eyes, and I’m seeing the physical effects this is having on them. Even though we can’t hug each other, we find other ways to smile and connect.

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