Warm Summer Sun

I get to celebrate two weeks this week: Nurses’ Week and Hospice Palliative Care Nurses’ Week. Hooray!

Hey, a nursing poster that covers palliative care! I feel loved.

Oliva Chow, wife of the late Jack Layton, wrote this wonderful piece about palliative care and the need for everyone to be able to access it.

I just want someone to hold my hand.

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—	said by my patient to me One of the most rewarding, difficult and heartbreaking part of being a palliative nurse. (via lifeonfastforward) Some of my best shifts have had me doing this.

Alan Note throws a party to tell people he has terminal lung cancer, then dies later that night.

This is the sort of thing I have planned for if I have any warning before I die.