Category: nurse practitioner
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Why Palliative Care Needs to Be Different
Maura J. Lipp, MD I was recently asked to give a presentation on what makes Palliative Care a specialty and why our team needs to function differently than “traditional” medical care. Naturally, this is a topic that can lead down many rabbit holes, depending on how you would like to broach the subject. The list…
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“You’re What Kind of Nurse Practitioner?”
By Mary Lauren Doggett, FNP Probably the number one question I get when I tell people I am a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, right after the polite smile and nod that tells me they have no idea what I just said, is “Soooo, what do you do, exactly?” (A close second to that is “How…
Palliative Life 