What is hospice? I get asked this question a lot. I have also heard the many misconceptions about what hospice is, and I have seen fear,...

I walked into the room of a patient, who was in a facility, at the same moment the floor nurse walked in to give medication. She walked u...

Before I started my day, I called a family to let them know I would be there about noon. I left a voicemail. I was with another patient w...

I will never get tired of seeing people being kind to strangers, or just being kind in general. Yesterday the AC went out in our hospice ...

We had a patient pass recently; it happened while I had stepped out for a bit and when I walked in the door, I was told he was gone. He w...

I have been writing this in my head since the day she arrived, because the moment I met her, I knew immediately there was a special place...

When I was 17 I dated a guy whose mother I rubbed the wrong way. The midnight intoxicated teenage calls to him didn't help. I got a lectu...

This is definitely on my top 5 list of things I have so much to say about!! After a long day of seeing patients, barely taking a break to...

I struggle with saying "no". I am THAT nurse! The one that will see another patient after I have already seen 5, or work the weekend shif...

When someone is lying in a bed and they are unable to verbalize how they are feeling or what they might need, that is the most important ...

The question I get asked most, is how much longer someone has. I can tell when someone is close, and sometimes I can get the family gathe...

You would think working in hospice you would become less surprised by the ache and pain you see others experience when death is verified....

When someone asks you what you do and you tell them you are a hospice nurse, you always hear, "that must be so hard, how can you do that w...

This work is hard. In one day I could see one patient who is actively dying and have to tell the family there are only hours to days left...

I was sitting with the wife of a man who was hours away from taking his last breath. She was nervous, emotional, and scared. After spendi...

As a hospice nurse, I have seen, understandably, a LOT of death. I have been blessed to have witnessed beautiful, peaceful deaths and tha...

The first thing you have to remember is that this is not about you. By "this", I mean the experience someone else is having at the end of...