5 Orders for Nurses to Request for the Last Days and Hours
Changes to medical orders at end-of-life are essential to supporting the person’s comfort through dying.
3 Tips for Educators to Support PSWs to Talk Comfortably About Dying and Death
Personal Support Workers (PSWs)1 are the caregivers with the most contact time with the person and family – and are informally acknowledged as “the eyes and ears of the health care team.” In this role, PSWs are most likely to be asked to talk with family about their loved one’s dying and death. When PSWs […]
Six Easy Strategies to Open Space for Teaching Palliative Care
“I must define the course in a way more engaging than engorging, countering my tendency to inundate students with data, and allowing them instead to encounter the subject, each other, and themselves. “I must provide readings with substance that students need to know, but with gaps in which students can think their own thoughts – […]
A Beginners Guide to Getting Comfortable With Dying and Death
“It’s not being dead, but the dying that I fear.”
