#99: Providing End of Life Care
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Straight A Nursing
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🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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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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