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Navigating End-of-Life Conversations: A Guide for New Hospice Nurses

Hospice Nurse Hero

As a hospice nurse, a challenging and unavoidable aspect of your role is navigating end-of-life conversations. In this article, we’ll explore the challenges of these conversations and some key strategies to help new hospice nurses. It’s not always easy to know what to say or how much to say.

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Awareness, Education Keys to Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

Hospice News

The third is moving away from a very medicalized approach and focusing on what conversations help us get informed on trauma in the past and present.” It’s about education and support in recognizing the role that trauma plays and adopting practices and policies in the world of hospice and palliative care.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Derek Flores

Minority Nurse

Nursing is a second career for Derek J. Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. Meet Derek Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, and hospice nurse in Colorado.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. John: Yeah. I would add, too.

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Hospice for Dementia

Shining Light Hospice

Speech may or may not be present. In keeping with the goals of hospice, to maintain patient dignity and comfort, care can be in the patient’s own home, a personal care home, a nursing home, the home of a relative, and sometimes in a hospital or inpatient hospice unit. When Is It Time for Hospice Care?

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Ep.18: BK Books with Barbara Karnes: Why Approaching Hospice Holistically is Necessary to the Success of the Care Continuum

Home Care Pulse

He, there’s so much focus given to bereavement and grief as well, and he fears that again, there’s just not enough thought giving to what that dying person themselves is going through, whether they’re afraid to die with any secrets surrounded by platitudes. And hospice has evolved in those, what, 50 years.

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