Showing posts with label palliative care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label palliative care. Show all posts
Friday, January 3, 2014

Using #Hospice and #Palliative Preferred Practices to Create a Plan of Care. @pedagogymedical @hospiceheroes #nurseup #nursefriendly

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Using #Hospice and #Palliative Preferred Practices to Create a Plan of Care. @pedagogymedical @hospiceheroes #nurseup #nursefriendly Becaus...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Hospice Nurses, End of Life Nursing, #SpecialtyNursing, #nursefriendly #healthcare #nurses #nursing #hospice #eolchat #hpm

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New! Gwenn Dalton, RN, Pro Hospice Solutions, LLC :"Pro Hospice Solutions, LLC understands that care is more than tending ...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian Dies; Death With Dignity Proponent Remembered

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Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian, otherwise known as "Doctor Death" fell victim Friday to a blood clot that released from his leg...
Friday, April 22, 2011

More senior citizens are dying at home - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com

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By John Dorschner jdorschner@MiamiHerald.com After years of experts and patient...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Palliative care can lead to higher quality of live and longer survival

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by John Schumann, MD Every once in awhile amidst the weekly deluge of medical articles comes a show-stopper that has the potential to cha...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

How to Say Goodbye | Saying Goodbye to a Dying Loved One | Caring.com

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Here, those who've been through the experience of saying good-bye share what felt right to them -- and what they wish they'd done d...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Helping patients experience death, PhillyBurbs.com:  

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A handful of local hospitals recently started volunteer programs that train ordinary people to sit with those who are alone and dying. ...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Discussing cancer treatment with the terminal patient, KevinMD.com

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“Are you giving up on me?” My patient looks at me severely. “There must be other treatment options! Aren’t there some experimental drug...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

The cost of keeping the terminally ill alive, KevinMD.com

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Last year, Medicare paid $55 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients’ lives. And it has been es...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Cancer patients die too often in hospitals, study says - The Boston Globe

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Researchers at the Dartmouth Atlas Project in Lebanon, N.H., analyzed the records of 235,821 Medicare patients ages 65 and older who died b...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Veterans: Traumas resurface at end-of-life - UPI.com

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U.S. researchers have tailored a program to help veterans whose traumas resurface at end-of-life. Researchers led by Dr. Joshua Hauser of...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Make-A-Wish Foundation : About Us

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Welcome to Wish.org, the online home of the nation’s largest wish-granting organization. Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation ® has give...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Death, Dying, End of Life, Hospice, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories

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Death, Dying, End of Life, Hospice, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories :"Occasionally, we are graced with the presence of an earth b...