Caregiving and Hospice, April 30 - May 6, 2017

Best selection from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

Honoring Hospice Nurses: National Nurses Week, May 6 – May 12, http://bit.ly/mFIU0a « Grief Healing

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Caregiving and Hospice, May 1 - May 7, 2016

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

Make this the Nurses Week we all want. Here's how. http://j.mp/1WP7WSk « Kevin, MD

Caring for Mom at Home, http://j.mp/1Y6zbXq « Barbara Karnes, RN

Going the Distance: Caring for Loved Ones from Afar, http://j.mp/1SK4044 « Hospice of the Red River Valley

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Caregiving and Hospice, May 5 - May 11, 2013

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

Asking family members for help in caregiving, http://shar.es/lQjBh « Hernando Today

Mothering a dying child - wise and beautiful essay, http://j.mp/198ADxO « Slate

Video: How to Talk to Parents About Their End-of-Life Wishes, http://j.mp/10djqCn « U.S. News Money

National Nurses Week: The high calling of the hospice nurse, http://j.mp/12gK4tZ « Tryon Daily Bulletin

How to Use a Life Insurance Policy to Pay for Long Term Care, http://buff.ly/13yukTF « AgingCare.com

Caregiving and Hospice, May 6 - May 12, 2012

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• Hospice provides support to ALL family members, including pets! http://fb.me/1P06BS0yK via @NHPCO_news
  
  
• Physician clarifies nature of hospice care, http://j.mp/Jkozzy by@drgarymac via @SolariHospice
  
  
• Hospice Nurses Are So Important,  http://j.mp/INcjo8 via Pallimed
  
  
• Informative segment on hospice care (in Spanish!),  http://j.mp/M4l1US  by TV reporter @SilviadeSaenz via @SolariHospice
  
  
• DSM-V Panel Backs Down on Diagnoses, http://j.mp/IIxRST  via NYTimes.com
  
  
• Caregiving: "The Hardest Job I’ve Ever Had" by Claire Bidwell Smith, http://j.mp/KjZzIZ via @MariaShriver
  
  
• How hospice helps a family who is losing a child to brain cancer, http://j.mp/KjUCQp by @cnn via @SolariHospice
  
  
• More hospices taking care of patients' pets, http://j.mp/JL9Mdm via @rhgerard
  
  
• A Rare Form of Dementia Tests a Vow of ‘for Better, for Worse,’http://j.mp/JW7wSF
  
  
• National Nurses Week 2012, http://j.mp/J9vOYs

National Nurses Week 2012

Nursing is an art; and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body -- the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts; I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.  ~ Florence Nightingale

Nurses: Advocating, Leading, Caring

Often described as an art and a science, nursing is a profession that embraces dedicated people with varied interests, strengths and passions because of the many opportunities the profession offers. Nurses work in hospitals, emergency rooms, school based clinics, and homeless shelters, to name a few. They have many roles – from staff nurse to educator to nurse practitioner and nurse researcher – and serve all of them with passion for the profession and with a strong commitment to patient safety.

National Nurses Week is celebrated annually from May 6, also known as National Nurses Day, through May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. Visit the NNW History page to learn more.

I am especially blessed to be working with nurses (better known as earthly angels) at Hospice of the Valley in Phoenix, Arizona ~ and during their special week, I hope you will join me in recognizing and thanking them for the very special work they do.

Related articles:

• Celebrate National Nurses Week 2012
• Hospice Nurses Are So Important
• Honoring Hospice Nurses
• What Will You Do....For National Nurses Week? 
• Loads of Free, Full-Text Nursing Journal Articles for Nurses Week [Six Days Only] 

© by Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, DCC