Download or read book Memoirs of a Hospice Nurse written by Elizabeth Walters and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-12-26 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people have been misinformed about hospice care and hospice nurses. This book will put their minds at ease and enlighten them to the fact that hospice nursing comes fully staffed with caring and highly educated individuals, and that, hospice is not a place but a philosophy of care. This team often consists of and is headed by a medical director, RNs, LPNs, social workers, and chaplains. These professionals spend sleepless nights rendering care and comfort and catering to the needs of patients who are bravely on their final journey in life. Memoirs of a Hospice Nurse chronicles the unforgettable experiences that nurse Elizabeth Walters encountered while providing hands-on bedside care to her dying patients. This riveting storytelling will show the compassion and love displayed by this hospice nurse for her patients and their families.
Download or read book Moments in Time written by Chpn Brauss, RN and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Blurb"Hospice is a program for patients who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and for their caregivers. Hospice never hastens or prolongs death. The goal of hospice care is to improve the quality of a person's life by controlling their symptoms and keeping them as active in life as possible. In hindsight, families have told me that they would have known about hospice sooner. It would have eased the fear and burden they face. Find a hospice that makes patient care their number one priority." - MATTHEW BRAUSS, RN, CHPN.Moments in Time. Memoirs of a Hospice Nurse is a compilation of personal stories of people the author has had the privilege of caring for through hospice. Additionally, the author offers information about how the body reacts during the end stages of life. He gives suggestions to caregivers and hospice workers on how to provide comfort to people. This book celebrates 40 years of hospice service for the author.
Download or read book Messages from the Afterlife written by Mary Hill and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Hill was spiritual as a teenager and fascinated with the concept of death and dying. She read many books on the subject, but still had fear about her own death. She shares her unique and spiritual experiences as a Registered Nurse and Hospice Case Manager. A close relationship with each patient showed her the divine grace that accompanied the dying process as she assisted them to transition to the afterlife. Several of her patients kept their promise to appear to her after they passed. This was evidence that life, or consciousness, continued after our physical body was dropped. Mary describes her journey watching her mothers decline over the years and experienced the family dynamics that she knew so well. Her mother appeared with messages of love and life lessons for facing many of her fears after her transition. More hospice stories occurred as she continued as a per diem nurse and performed Reiki and Shamanic healing work. Mary shares her views and personal experience on the controversial subject of medical cannabis in treating pain and anxiety. Further discussion continues with her thoughts about Alternative Medicine versus Western Medicine.
Download or read book Seven Days of Hospice written by D M Wilmes and published by D.M. Wilmes. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heart-rending memoir of Elaine Wilmes's cancer battle when all treatment options had been exhausted and the family called hospice, whose mission is to support terminally ill patients and their families, gives powerfully candid, moment-to-moment descriptions of the end-of-live experience. Narrated by one of Elaine's sons, D, M. Wilmes, this uplifting story will help other families come to terms with the roller coaster of emotions felt during a loved one's final days.
Download or read book From Sun to Sun written by Nina Angela McKissock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one people of different ages have one thing in common; they’re within six months of their deaths. They’ve endured the battle of the medical system as they sought cures for their illnesses, and are now settling in to die. Some reconcile, some don’t. Some are gracious, some not. As Nina Angela McKissock, a highly experienced hospice nurse, goes from home to home and within the residential hospice, she shares her journey of deep joy, humorous events, precious stories, and heartbreaking love. Free of religiosity, dogma, or fear, From Sun to Sun brings readers into McKissock’s world—and imparts the profound lessons she learns as she guides her beloved patients on their final journey.
Download or read book Halos written by Jo Ann Kane Slosek and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey that begins in childhood among angel statues in the neighborhood cemetery to the most intimate moments witnessed as a hospice nurse, this memoir is filled with real stories of patients and their families revealing their love, fears and truths as they navigate the final stage of life.
Download or read book Top Five Regrets of the Dying written by Bronnie Ware and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.
Download or read book Through the Years written by Ruth James Krise and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When author Ruth James Krise was accepted into the nursing class at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital in Kingston, Pennsylvania, in September of 1953, she was the oldest of the lot. Her greatest hope was to simply survive and graduate. In Through the Years, Krise narrates her story, telling how she graduated from nursing school in 1956 and began her career at one of the largest hospitals in Newark, New Jersey. In this memoir, she shares details from her personal and professional life. Krise traveled and worked in several states and in many fields. Known for her humor and work ethic, she excelled in her profession. Through the Years chronicles how a young girl, looking for love and a meaningful life chose a vocation that took her to various underdeveloped countries where, with other medical volunteers, she was part of a team providing surgical care. Independent and free spirited, her career spanned fifty years and saw many changes in the medical arena.
Download or read book A Knapsack Full of Dreams written by Cathy Crowe and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My nurse hands once did more useful things. They immunized the fat, healthy thighs of infants, they carefully measured cardiac drugs to administer to young heart patients, they bathed both the elderly lady after her surgery and the 24-year-old Italian-Canadian woman after her death. My hands once mixed linseed poultices, rubbed twenty backs a night before darkness fell and, by flashlight, checked intravenous drips, catheters, and other tubing. They made hot milk in the middle of the night and then, later at home, soothed a child with too-frequent earaches. These are good uses for hands. Now they carry a black bag into streets, alleyways, and ravines. The bandages I carry no longer cover the wounds of my patients. My vitamins will not prevent the white plague of tuberculosis from taking another victim. The granola bars I carry cannot begin to feed the hunger I meet. I cannot even help someone achieve one peaceful night of safety and sleep. Only roofs will do that. And I am not a carpenter." There is no right to shelter or housing in Canada. Over the past three decades, a series of federal governments cut funding for social programs and eliminated our national housing program, leaving hundreds of thousands of people victim to the tsunami of homelessness that was declared a national disaster twenty years ago. No one knows this reality better than Cathy Crowe, who witnessed the explosion of homelessness across Canada while working as a Street Nurse. This fallout was accompanied by great suffering, inhumane shelter conditions, new disease outbreaks, and clusters of homeless deaths. It is a reality that spans across the entire country. In A Knapsack Full of Dreams, Cathy Crowe details her lifelong commitment as a nurse and social justice activist—particularly her thirty years as a Street Nurse—with passion, grace, and fortitude. Presented through the lens of someone dedicated to the power and beauty of film, A Knapsack Full of Dreams will move you, then inspire you to act.
Download or read book Closing Chapters written by Rn Joan E Stempel Msn and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Stempel, a nurse with over thirty years experience has written a book which gives us a very unique and personal picture of dying. Sharing her work caring for dying family members and friends as well as hospice patients. she present us with a compassionate approach to end-of-life issues and helps us find the words we need to address the many issues that arise when someone we love is dying. Not only is this book a wealth of information, it also takes death which is often viewed as a frightening and sad experience and shows us the beauty and grace which can be found in the final chapter of our lives.
Download or read book The Nurse s Story written by Carol Gino and published by aaha! Books. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With uncompromising honesty, Carol Gino strips the TV image to reveal the gritty truths of a nurse's life.
Download or read book Treasures of a Nurse s Heart written by Lisa Wagner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty stories highlighting Mrs. Smith's nursing career, each with a Life Lesson at the end.
Download or read book Nobody s Home written by Thomas Edward Gass and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After caring for his mother at the end of her life, Thomas Gass took a job as a nursing home aide in a for-profit long term care home. This graphic, poignant & chilling book details his experiences in this 'warehouse' for the elderly & asks fundamental questions about care in American nursing homes.
Download or read book The Miracle of Hospice written by Cathy Truehart and published by Go to Publish. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miracle of Hospice; The Personal Journey of a Hospice Nurse is designed to offer information and emotional support to a wide audience of people who may be faced with their own death or the death of a loved one, or those who just want to be informed about what hospice is and what it is not. By merging elements of memoir, reflection, information and gentle self-help, The Miracle of Hospice demystifies the work of hospice as it ministers to the dying and their families. By tracing one day in the life of a hospice nurse, the author explains in detail how hospice staffers work and debunks as well, some of the damaging myths about end-of-life care while sharing her own journey as hospice nurse and caregiver to her own parents. The book is laced with personal stories of the hospice patients and families she has had the privilege to serve in her 40 year career as a hospice nurse. The Miracle of Hospice portrays the human, humane and sometimes humorous side of hospice. Its three main sections put a vivid, personal face on the hospice patient and family, the hospice nurse, and the hospice team respectively.
Download or read book Tales of a Hospice Nurse written by Tanya White and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While working as a hospice nurse for over fifteen years, Tanya White found her calling by embracing her compassion for others by serving terminally ill patients in their transition from this plane of existence to the next. She has been forever changed by this emotional undertaking. Her patients and their families have taught her invaluable lessons about life. White was inspired by the amazing strength and personal experiences of her patients. She was blessed to have known such wonderful people and to have been a part of their lives. She was touched emotionally by sharing in the laughs, the tears, and the inevitable grief. This book is a compilation of short stories and journals that include some of her most precious and cherished memories from working with terminally ill patients. These stories speak to those who have lost hope, those who have hope, and those who are looking for that something more in life. White wants these stories to bless and touch you, the reader, as much as her time with each of these precious beings has blessed and touched her.
Download or read book Healing written by Theresa Brown and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deeply moving." --Damon Tweedy, New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat New York Times bestselling author Theresa Brown tells a poignant, powerful, and intensely personal story about breast cancer. She brings us along with her from the mammogram that would change her life through her diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, she finds herself continually surprised by the lack of compassion in the medical maze--just as so many of us have. Why is she expected to wait over a long weekend to hear the results of her cancer tests if they are ready? Where is the empathy from caregivers? Why is she so often left in the dark about procedures and treatments? At times she's mad at herself for not speaking up and asking for what she needs but knows that being labeled a "difficult" patient could mean she gets worse care. As she did in her book The Shift, Brown draws us into her work with the unforgettable details of her daily life--the needles, the chemo drugs, the rubber gloves, the frustrated patients--but from her new perch as a patient, she also takes a look back with rare candor at some of her own cases as a nurse and considers what she didn't know then and what she could have done better. A must-read for fans of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, Suleika Jaouad's Between Two Kingdoms, and all of us who have tried to find healing through our health-care system.
Download or read book Hospice Voices written by Eric Lindner and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a part-time hospice volunteer, Eric Lindner provides “companion care” to dying strangers. They’re chatterboxes and recluses, religious and irreligious; battered by cancer, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s, old age. Some cling to life amazingly. Most pass as they expected. In telling his story, Lindner reveals the thoughts, fears, and lessons of those living the ends of their lives in the care of others, having exhausted their medical options or ceased treatment for their illnesses. In each chapter, Lindner not only reveals the lessons of lives explored in their final days, but zeroes in on how working for hospice can be incredibly fulfilling. As he’s not a doctor, nurse, or professional social worker, just a volunteer lending a hand, offering a respite for other care providers, his charges often reveal more, and in more detail, to him than they do to those with whom they spend the majority of their time. They impart what they feel are life lessons as they reflect on their own lives and the prospect of their last days. Lindner captures it all in his lively storytelling. Anyone who knows or loves someone working through end of life issues, living in hospice or other end of life facilities, or dealing with terminal or chronic illnesses, will find in these pages the wisdom of those who are working through their own end of life issues, tackling life’s big questions, and boiling them down into lessons for anyone as they age or face illness. And those who may feel compelled to volunteer to serve as companions will find motivation, inspiration, and encouragement. Rather than sink under the weight of depression, pity, or sorrow, Lindner celebrates the lives of those who choose to live even as they die.
