Healthcare Professionals
The Ledger: Hospice Nurse Provides Comfort to Patients, Families in Lakeland
Nurses who gravitate toward hospice care are deeply empathetic and highly motivated. It’s not a job for someone fresh out of nursing school, because it takes life experience to connect with dying patients and their families.
The Ledger, Gary White
posted on April 27, 2016
As a girl, Lisa Maxwell often wondered why her mother didn’t seek a different job. Why would anyone choose the anguish that comes with being a hospice nurse? “She’d come home some days and be sad and tearful,” Maxwell says. “I totally understand it now, but at the time I was like, ‘Mom, you’re a hospice nurse. They’re all going to pass.’
“She’d come home some days and be sad and tearful,” Maxwell says. “I totally understand it now, but at the time I was like, ‘Mom, you’re a hospice nurse. They’re all going to pass.’
“But now I get it.”
To learn more about what it takes to be a hospice nurse, click here.