Community is a nurse-led initiative in UCLA’s cardiothoracic intensive care unit that supports patients, their families and unit staff during the dying process. It gives nursing staff tools to care ...
WILSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — A nurse has been recognized after helping make a patient’s final wish come true at her hospital bedside. The woman wasn’t even his patient, but his actions helped her ...
If you've ever worked closely with a dying patient as a medical professional, you may know how sensitive this time with them can be, as they may need more emotional and physical support around this ...
Regarding the March 10 letter to the editor “Give Marylanders dignity in dying”: There is one thing that can be said of death. No one can escape it. As a terminally ill patient, I have learned that ...
t was 1975, and I was a very young new nurse. I was working on a surgical floor of a major metropolitan hospital in New York City that had many rules. One of these rules was that children younger than ...
A hospice nurse claims people often see the same thing in the few weeks leading up to their death. Julie McFadden, an end-of-life nurse and bestselling author from California, posts videos as 'Hospice ...
Staff members at a Richfield nursing home are accused of forging a do-not-resuscitate directive after responding slowly to a patient dying, according to police. In a search warrant affidavit filed ...
A damning report on overcrowded hospitals added fuel to a painful debate over the crises at the National Health Service. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London Patients are dying in the corridors ...