This week, I visited a patient who was nearing the end of life. As I spoke with his son, I found myself sharing…

In hospice, there is an essential skill you will learn…

I’ve heard the term ‘survivor’s guilt’—usually in the context of war. I never expected to feel something like it

One of my former social worker colleagues, Faith once told me that hospice is “all-consuming.”

I wondered how she balanced work and everything

Hospice nursing can be so intense that you forget to take breaks. Eating lunch? What’s that? I’ve gone through entire days

Are you on information overload after having started orientation? If you are a new hospice RN case manager there’s lots of things to learn and you might be tempted to think…

If you have begun a new position as a hospice RN case manager, I want to welcome you to this sacred work. Many view this work as depressing and heavy, and it may be at times, but for because…

Not long after I started hospice nursing, I sensed that much of the work would be emotional in nature. As a new RN case manager, I often felt inadequate when faced with the big end-of-life issues…

When people ask how I’m able to do this work—walking alongside patients and families at the end of life—I tell them honestly: I don’t do it alone. I was raised in a Christian home, and since…

As I’ve been thinking about how I can nurture and care for you, my fellow hospice nurse, I thought of writing encouraging affirmations for you. Every week I’ll be blogging an…