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…

Can you imagine a world without hospice nurses? Scary thought isn’t it? But what if no one stepped forward to care for the terminally ill and dying? What if no one wanted to do the…

I’ve been thinking a lot about what my word of this year in 2025 should be. I finally came up with the word…

At a recent hospice team meeting we celebrated an RN case manager’s 30th year anniversary as a nurse. She has spent 10 of those years in hospice. She spoke at an…