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Straight A Nursing: Study for nursing school exams & NCLEX

#99: Providing End of Life Care

Straight A Nursing: Study for nursing school exams & NCLEX

Straight A Nursing

Education, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Providing end-of-life care focused on comfort and dignity is one of the most challenging yet rewarding things we can do for our patients. In this podcast episode, I talk you through what to expect as your patient (or the patient’s family) prepares for death, what nursing interventions will be needed, and how you can provide everyone involved with care that is as competent as it is compassionate. ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! 20 Secrets of Successful Nursing Students – Learn key strategies that will help you be a successful nursing student with this FREE guide! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.4

Podcast. I'm so glad that you are here with me today to dive into a topic that is very dear to me

0:54.8

because I do feel like this is one of the things

0:57.6

that nurses do that sets us apart

1:01.3

and that is our ability to provide compassionate and graceful end of life care.

1:08.0

It really can be a very comforting thing for patients and families.

1:14.4

So if you're a new nurse or a nursing student

1:18.0

you haven't worked a lot with dying patients,

1:21.4

then this is the podcast for you.

1:24.6

So it can be a very challenging role to take on.

1:30.4

It's often very heartbreaking, but it can also be one of the most rewarding aspects of your career,

1:38.0

especially if you work in an environment like the critical care environment where you see patients suffer so so much

1:47.3

before their death to be able to provide care that does not cause any suffering, any pain, any anxiety, just focusing on comfort and supporting families and supporting

2:08.3

patients and helping them have that peaceful transition can be very rewarding and you often feel like on those

2:17.3

days that you have really acted as a nurse. I don't really know how to explain it until you take care of patients at that time.

2:28.0

You might not be able to understand because I know that as students and as new nurses or maybe nurses that don't deal with end of life, you know, we're so ingrained to get in there and fix things and fix patients and prevent problems and help them get well. But when that battle is being

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