Sharing a beautiful story of the Peabody musicians who bring incredible care & comfort to patients - and staff - at Hopkins 🩷

The impact is their work highlights the power of music & importance of personal connection.

@nytimes.com

A few important nots:
- hospice is not a place
- palliative care is not hospice
- talking about death does not make people give up or die
- at the end of life food does not make you stronger
- taking morphine for advanced cancer pain does not mean you’re dying/an addict/giving up
#palliativecare

If other medical specialities were stigmatized like palliative care #hapc #palliativecare

Inpatient referrals for psychology are often like- can we help a patient with 'strategies'.

In reality, we spend time with people & listen to what's going on, "how are you really?" Often there's a question or message to pass on to the medical team.

It's not really about strategies. It's listening.

The patient's daughter told the healthcare team that her dying mom loved the beach. Without asking, @thanhneville.bsky.social made these "heartbeats in a bottle" for the patient's husband and daughter, and they loved it so much. Sometimes, small acts of #kindness can go a long way.

👏🏼 Thank you 👏🏼 @ranaawdish.bsky.social for sharing your incredible work!

Align with patients & families by communicating with honesty, sensitivity, AND by avoiding 🚫Never-Words🚫 when discussing
serious illnesses.

Tacking this up in the office and sharing with learners!

My 3.5yo recent asked me about death and I have never been more prepared to answer a toddler’s question… all thanks to our incredible #ChildLifeSpecialists who teach us (in adult #hapc) how to talk to little ones (even our own 🩷)

How do we say goodbye to patients nearing end of life? #hpm #hapc Glad to have a colleague among authors of this recent Fast Fact www.mypcnow.org/fast-fact/th...

Ahhh. When #CardioSky studies an elegantly simple #nursing intervention to determine outcomes in
Stage D #HF 🥰

Makes those #PalliSky advanced therapeutics evals even better!

#ACCCVT @aksmitchell.bsky.social

The team that plays together stays together!

☀️ Gorgeous morning ☀️ for a #palliative team walk at Lake Roland with family and friends (both the two & four-legged 🐶).

Yay! Tag-Team Back Again on Bluesky @jaepattonnp.bsky.social

Resharing this Baltimore Banner starter pack. If you’re from Maryland, or just interested in local news, this group is worth following. There’s some arts, news, opinion and sports in the mix here. I’ll keep adding to it as more people join.

go.bsky.app/SxUmtPP

Hello, Blue Sky people! We're here to share news and people's stories.

Our reporters cover everything from great restaurants to school boards in Maryland.

We report stories in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Howard County, Anne Arundel County and beyond. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/about/

A sobering empirical piece in JAMA.

Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death.

Here they show:
* restrictions on divorce
* restrictions on abortion…
both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Channel your sadness, your anger, your grief. Pick a cause you believe in and commit. Give it your time, your energy, your whole heart. Passionate individuals who will act on their beliefs are stronger than politics. Our causes will not die. Have faith in our collective goodness.

So if you are interested in building community or #hospice and #PalliativeCare ( #hapc ), please come join us Wed Nov 13, 2024 at 9p ET on Bluesky using the hashtag #hapc and see what can happen when good people get together.

bsky.app/profile/ctsi...

👋🏼Hi!👋🏼 just your friendly #hapc #icu clinical social worker who believes in the power of building camaraderie & community for #hcw because #weCANdohardthings… especially together… preferably with coffee. Nice to meet ya!