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The Invisible Patient

As health care providers we focus primarily on the terminally ill patients and their comfort. But as a trained Palliative nurse I look beyond the terminally ill patient and assess the needs of the caregivers as well. In a recent article written by Jane Gross for the New York Times titled, “Seeing the Invisible Patient,” she comments on the plight and the overwhelming burden caregivers endure. In a flurry of com

Patients Who Rely on Religion to Cope Are More Likely to Have Aggressive Medical Care

Terminally ill cancer patients who relied on their religious faith to help them cope with their disease were more likely to receive aggressive medical care during their last week of life, a study shows. Patients who engaged in what the researchers called positive religious coping, which included prayer, meditation and religious study, ended up having more intensive life-prolonging interventions such as mechanical

My Deathbed Playlist

My End-of-Life Checklist: Will? Check. Health care proxy? Check. My 5 Wishes completed and reviewed with family? Check. My playlist for dying? In Process. You all know people who have chosen music to be played at their funeral. But, before that time arrives, many of us will still be able to listen to music but will not be able to choose it for ourselves. Hence a Deathbed Playlist. It’s hard to imagine an experien
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