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Treating Burnout, Trauma, and Grief with Dance

Minority Nurse

What I realized when I cared for my sister was the gift that comes from having one-on-one intimate moments with another human being—to bathe her, feed her, and help be her voice,” says Rynders. It felt like I had both my joy and my grief coupled together in all that I did.” Rynders decided she was going to change that.

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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

Nurses aides can assist with activities of daily living such as toileting, bathing, and feeding. Frequency of healthcare visits are determined by several factors such as patient diagnoses, symptoms, and response to treatments and medications. What Does Hospice Care Include? What Does Home Health Include?

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Mindset is Everything in Your Nursing Career and Beyond

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

In my work as a holistic career coach for nurses, there's one thing I've noticed more than anything else: mindset matters to your nursing and healthcare career. Caffrey and Caffrey wrote: Can nurses practice caring within a healthcare system that promotes codependency?

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Nurses, Nursing, and the Nature of Suffering

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

In the course of many nurses' healthcare careers, witnessing the illness, suffering, and death of others is commonplace. In nursing, medicine, and healthcare, what we're grasping for is the health and well-being of our patients, sometimes against all odds. All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare. And as you’ve written in your work, there is a justified mistrust of the healthcare system and an ethic of struggle that needs to be appreciated.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

Because, if anybody hasn’t seen it, you’ve got a great Twitter feed that gives tons of pearls on palliative care and a lot on communication. Speaking of pearls, should we move to Shunichi’s Twitter feed? Alex: Shunichi, your Twitter feed is like haiku. What motivated you to dive into this? That’s okay.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. The reasons are tied to the basically poor healthcare in low and middle income countries. We know that a department of healthcare cannot give it. Healthcare industry cannot do it.