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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. You should also utilize your hospice volunteers when you can.

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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. Beth: It depends on the volunteer. John: Yeah.

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A Life’s Passion Shared

The Bucket-List Blog

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. As is often the case, the project extended to other hospice volunteers, staff, and our network of supporters and community partners. Chaplain Jim Baldwin and volunteer Tammy Warford Rubin Hicks tunes his fiddle. Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us.