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Are you ready to make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients and families in their most vulnerable moments? In the world of palliative and hospice care, the focus shifts from curing to comforting, from fighting disease to honoring each patient’s dignity and well-being. The Essential Guide to Palliative and Hospice Nursing Care Assessment and Charting is your comprehensive companion, designed to equip you with both the practical skills and compassionate perspective necessary to navigate the complexities of end-of-life care. Many guides touch only on the basics, but this book ...

Life and death go hand in hand, two sides of the same coin. Most people in America die in a hospital, but many families choose hospice for end of life care. Death, as experienced by hospice nurses, can be beautiful, peaceful, humorous, touching, tragic, disturbing, and even otherworldly. Hospice nurses midwife the dying into the next world every day. Death transforms not just the patient and family, but the hospice nurse as well. The stories in this book are presented with the hope that their transformation extends to you, too. Heidi Barr, R.N.

Morgan Michael a chaplain who does the hospice circuit. This is the first published journal of what happened one day on the job. If you are up for mystery and people making the most of their final moments and the choices, they make. Naturally the stories include the best and worst of the human experience, so we have conspiracies, murder, mayhem, rape and revenge. The members of “The Society”, all have contracted the exact same lethal non-communicable cancer. For the last 50 plus years they have been fighting the battle against ecological degradation of the planet in their own way. They ...

Practical wisdom and holistic planning to ease life's most difficult transition, from an acclaimed hospice nurse, death doula, and end-of-life educator Many of us have to show up for someone we love at the end of life. Knowing how to do that changes everything. With over twenty years of...

Here’s a polished book description you can use for The Complete Death Doula Guide: End-of-Life Planning, Hospice Support, and Holistic Care for Families: Book Description Caring for a loved one at the end of life can be one of the most profound and challenging journeys a family will ever face. The Complete Death Doula Guide offers a compassionate, practical, and holistic approach to navigating this sacred season with grace, dignity, and peace. Blending medical insight, hospice expertise, and emotional support strategies, this guide empowers families, caregivers, and aspiring death doulas ...

The Heart of Hospice reminds us how important it is for the dying to experience touch, human connection, and dignity at the end-of-life. Through the journey of one hospice patient from beginning to end, Ms. Whalen gracefully illustrates that these compassionate connections are absolutely integral to letting go peacefully. Drawing on personal experiences over her forty-year nursing career, Aimee has outlined an enlightened but practical approach to patient care that seamlessly blends traditional western medical care with holistic teachings such as Reiki and Therapeutic / Healing Touch.

Grab-and-go inspirations are here in bite-sized pieces. There are my rules and gifts to you for growing a good life - even in the confusing soils of caregiving. Inside-out survival that is both practical and doable. Caregiving is love’s race. And that is the miracle of taking care. This book is about those more balanced choices.

Learn what end of life can teach us about the secret to financial independence and making every moment count with this life-altering collection of tips from Dr. Jordan Grumet, host of the award-winning Earn & Invest podcast, featuring a foreword written by Vicki Robin, coauthor of Your Money or Your Life.

The Complete Death Doula Guide: End-of-Life Planning, Hospice Support, and Holistic Care for Families is a compassionate, practical handbook for anyone seeking to bring dignity, peace, and meaning to life’s final chapter. Whether you are a caregiver, aspiring death doula, or healthcare professional, this guide provides the tools, wisdom, and confidence needed to support individuals and families through the sacred process of dying. With a balance of evidence-based practices and heart-centered guidance, this book helps readers understand the death doula role while offering actionable ...

Hospice? Hell, No! dares to take a look at the cold reality of Hospice. Beware the warm fuzzies publicized about this philosophy and recognize the truth. Recommended reading before you or a loved one make a serious medical decision. Living wills? Do Not Resuscitate orders? Read this first.

When we fear death, we miss out on a lot of life. This book hopes to change that. While hospices care for persons in their final days, hospice is not about death. It's all about LIFE - real, nitty-gritty, poignant, funny, challenging, and bittersweet life in all its beauty and imperfection.

Linda J.Mancinelli is a hospice and palliative care nurse. She has devoted more than 30 years to the care of terminally ill patients and their families. She believes educating the public on end of life care is a much needed subject. To that end, she has spoken to civic organizations, service clubs and local community colleges about hospice care. Her philosophy maintains that every dying person, is entitled to die with dignity and the best pain and symptom management possible. Likewise, that their families feel supported and knowledgeable in the care of their loved ones, as they take that ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients’ final moments in this “brilliant” (Zibby Owens, Good Morning America) memoir. “This extraordinary book helps...

For both professionals and laypeople, this book weaves personal stories with practical care guidelines, including: living with a life-threatening illness, signs of the dying process, the stages of grief, living wills, and other end of life issues. The Final Act of Living: Reflections of a Long-Time Hospice Nurse is an end of life book; a resource that flows like a novel, yet has the content of a textbook.

Are you caring for a loved one in hospice care or have you recently lost someone you love? Whether it’s an elderly parent or a terminally ill spouse or child, the passing of someone you love is a life-changing experience. It affects family, friends, as well as hospice team members who provide end-of-life care. The story of every life lived deserves to be shared with others. Letters to a Hospice Nurse is a celebration of life! This audiobook is a collection of 12 beautiful love letters.

Oftentimes caregivers, friends, and family are unsure of what to say and what to do to comfort the sick and the dying. Midwife for Souls provides specific Catholic insight and highlights the power of prayer as a guide. This best-selling book has been revised to include a new section of inspiring stories and lessons learned in hospice ministry.

The Heart of Hospice podcast is dedicated to helping personal and professional caregivers who are caring for someone with serious illness. We're here to provide information and education so people can make informed choices about end of life care.

What does the end of life teach us about living well now? How can significant threshold moments in our own lives catapult us into richer, more meaningful livs? The key to moving with ease and grace through life’s thresholds is knowing how deeply loved and supported we are by the Source of our being. This love is so great that its one constant invitation is to BeLoved. When we know ourselves as resting in perfect Love, all things are made new.

The perfect companion for family caregivers—frank talk, wise words, real-life tools “We’re family caregivers, you and I” is how this remarkable book begins. Told through the voices of family caregivers and counselors, this emotional survival guide gives you straight talk and wise words that will help you make your way through the toughest—and possibly most rewarding—job you’ll ever have. Today’s longer lives mean longer caregiving. If you’re caring for a parent, spouse, or friend over the long haul, this book is your essential companion, from beginnings, through the ups ...

'This book includes descriptions of actual patient cases along with a number of brief yet telling stories from Hospice Africa Uganda nurses and other team members of their personal history with Hospice Africa Uganda.' (Prof. Dr Anne Merriman, FRCPEd, FRCPI, Founder Hospice Africa) This is a captivating, moving book, full of life and all of the powerful emotions that come with extending love during the challenges facing patients with serious and life-limiting medical conditions and their families. It tells of the joys that come with never giving up on patients, whatever the prognosis of the ...