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End-of-Life Care: Your Patient Has Died, Now What?

Hospice Nurse Hero

End-of-life care is intimate and unique for every patient. As a nurse, when your patient dies, you might be thinking now what should I do? To begin, I didn’t even recognize the signs of transition to active death. To make matters worse, I had never performed end-of-life care. (I But I digress!

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

Mm-hmm just one example from sort of ancient history though, did you know that most nurses were not allowed to touch a stethoscope or a blood pressure cuff until the 1960s physicians didn’t think that nurses had the skills necessary to take vital signs? Linda Leekley ( 13:52 ): Right? Wanted to age in place.