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Life & Death Matters is on a mission to deliver comprehensive resources, training, and support for healthcare workers and individuals providing care for the dying and bereaved.

A palliative approach can be integrated into care by all care providers in acute, emergency, long-term, and home care settings. A palliative approach does not need to be provided by specialists. The inclusion of a palliative approach across all settings means that all the dying, not just a minority of them, can benefit from the principles of hospice palliative care. Since 2005 we have been providing palliative care education, resources and materials to over 150 colleges and organizations worldwide.

“For the new practitioner, this book provides your foundation. For the experienced practitioner, the reminder of why we do what we do. Keep this book at hand when you need to do the deep work of care-giving. It will sustain and guide your practice and bring your palliative care nursing to a place of fulfillment. Thank you Kath!”

Phillip LarkinProfessor of Clinical Nursing ( Palliative Care), University College Dublin and Our Lady's Hospice and Care Services, Dublin, Ireland. President, European Association for Palliative Care.

“This Essentials text is a valuable resource for all team members committed to quality patient care. The content is practical and addresses the real clinical issues in daily practice. It is an invaluable resource for those new in practice as well as those who are experienced clinicians."

BETTY FERRELL, Ph.D, RN, F.A.A.N.Director & Professor Nursing Research & Education City of Hope Medical Center

“This is a wonderful textbook for nursing students and for nurses entering practice. It is practical and uses helpful case studies, artwork, tables, scales and other supplemental resources that emphasize important concepts."

PAM MALLOY, RN, MN, FPCN, FAANDirector and Co-Investigator of the ELNEC Project American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)

“This will soon become the “go to guide” for those seeking direction in how to embed palliative approaches into their practice”

Kelli StadjuharProfessor, School of Nursing and Centre on Aging; Associate Director, Research and Scholarship

"Each section [of the nurses text] was short enough to digest in only a couple of minutes. The bullets made it easy to get the main points quickly... the right balance between technical information and the practical. Obviously, the advice of someone who had been there and done that and was willing to be honest about the difficulties and the unknowns."

Dr. Antionette ObergAssociate Professor and Graduate Advisor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Victoria

"It will be an essential and invaluable tool for personal service workers and their supervisors. It is full of useful--needed information covering every aspect of the dying process."

Kenneth J.Doka, PhDProfessor, The College of New Rochelle and Senior Consultant, The Hospice Foundation of America

"I have never seen anything like this [PSW] book before... it is written from the viewpoint of an experienced palliative care nurse educator who understands the real challenges of providing quality end of life care."

Rose DeangelisWest Island Palliative Care, Nurse Manager

"Kath Murray has created an invaluable educational resource for PSWs that addresses their key learning needs for providing residents’ physical comfort and meeting the psychological and social needs of residents and their families."

Mary Lou KelleyProfessor, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario

"Reading the [PSW text] has made me so proud of what I do. There is a great need to educate Personal Support Workers in the area of palliative and end-of-life care."

Jackie McDonaldPersonal Support Worker, Thunder Bay, Ontario

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“For the new practitioner, this book provides your foundation. For the experienced practitioner, the reminder of why we do what we do. Keep this book at hand when you need to do the deep work of care-giving. It will sustain and guide your practice and bring your palliative care nursing to a place of fulfillment. Thank you Kath!”

“This Essentials text is a valuable resource for all team members committed to quality patient care. The content is practical and addresses the real clinical issues in daily practice. It is an invaluable resource for those new in practice as well as those who are experienced clinicians."

“This is a wonderful textbook for nursing students and for nurses entering practice. It is practical and uses helpful case studies, artwork, tables, scales and other supplemental resources that emphasize important concepts."

“This will soon become the “go to guide” for those seeking direction in how to embed palliative approaches into their practice”

"Each section [of the nurses text] was short enough to digest in only a couple of minutes. The bullets made it easy to get the main points quickly... the right balance between technical information and the practical. Obviously, the advice of someone who had been there and done that and was willing to be honest about the difficulties and the unknowns."

"It will be an essential and invaluable tool for personal service workers and their supervisors. It is full of useful--needed information covering every aspect of the dying process."

"I have never seen anything like this [PSW] book before... it is written from the viewpoint of an experienced palliative care nurse educator who understands the real challenges of providing quality end of life care."

"Kath Murray has created an invaluable educational resource for PSWs that addresses their key learning needs for providing residents’ physical comfort and meeting the psychological and social needs of residents and their families."

"Reading the [PSW text] has made me so proud of what I do. There is a great need to educate Personal Support Workers in the area of palliative and end-of-life care."

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