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 ...
Before I was a registered nurse, I was a respiratory therapist. When I became a hospice nurse, I cared for many respiratory patients due to my background. What many people do not understand, including ...
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 ...
Julie discussed symptoms someone in the actively dying phase might experience that may look scary, but are completely normal — like the death rattle, the "rally," and "fish-out-of-water" breathing.
Nursing leaders have admitted patients could choose a proposed new assisted dying service because of inadequate palliative care. Professor Nicola Ranger described it as “possible” in evidence to MPs ...
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 ...
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 registered nurse in charge of caring for critically ill veterans stole their pain medications and consumed the doses while working in an intensive care unit, according to federal prosecutors.