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Hospice / Palliative Care

By Linda Norlander, RN, BSN, MS, 14 July 2010
To Comfort Always is a practical and insightful guide to end-of-life care. (open access)
Cover of Tales From the Pager Chronicles
By Patrice Rancour, RN, MS, CS, 12 July 2010
Patrice Rancour shares her experiences with end-of-life care and how they led to a specialized ministry to the dying. (open access)
The bridge
By Chris Zinn, 19 December 2009
My father had a great mind, but I never thought of him as a bridge player.
Taking care of unfinished business
20 November 2009
Case Western researchers to study end-of-life drive to settle unresolved issues
Michael LaFerney
By Michael C. LaFerney, 05 September 2009
It starts with getting rid of the "it's not my patient" mindset.
Certified to show unconditional love
By Joy Shiller, 28 June 2009
Not all caregivers are human.
04 May 2009
Any active member of STTI can participate in these communities.
24 February 2009
Tales From the Pager Chronicles, by Patrice Rancour, earned a 100-point, 5-star rating from Doody Book Review Services.
By Carolyn J. Lee, 15 February 2009
Was she an angel?
23 November 2008
Florence S. Wald, dean emerita of Yale University School of Nursing and founder of hospice in the United States, passed away Nov. 8.
By Joy Shiller and Sandra Clarke, 20 August 2008
Keeping vigil with the dying receives new impetus in the 21st century.
By Denise L. Hawthorne and Nancy J. Yurkovich, 02 March 2007
Before 1992, these Canadian nurses didn’t think of themselves as activists. When they began advocating on behalf of hospice, however, in Richmond, British Columbia—population 182,000—they discovered that, through collaboration, they could make a difference in their community.
By James E. Mattson, 02 September 2005
Florence Wald’s decision to resign her position as dean of Yale University School of Nursing in 1968 to lead a research study on the terminally ill led to the first U.S. hospice and better care for thousands.