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Advancing Expert Care
The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation have leveraged strategic and operational synergies and adopted shared mission and vision statements and common pillars of excellence.
ANA Position on End of Life
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has a position statement for nurses on the role and responsibility of the nurse in providing care at the end of life. The purpose of this statement is to articulate the roles, responsibilities, and opportunities for nurses who provide care for patients at the end of their lives.
CDC Advance Care Planning Resource
Advance care planning can be a gift you give yourself and your family. It is about doing what you can to ensure that your wishes and preferences are consistent with the health care treatment you might receive if you were unable to speak for yourself or make your own decisions.
The Centre for the Grief Journey
The Centre for the Grief Journey offers a variety of resources to grieving people, whether after a bereavement or in the midst of a life threatening situation.
Death and Grief
The Nemours Foundation and KidsHealth and Teen Health provided this resource page.
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
An online encyclopedia about topics related to death and dying.
Fast Stats - Hospice Care
This site from the CDC provides current statistics of hospice and palliative care.
The Grieving Process from American Cancer Society
Grief is normal, and it is a process. Expressing grief is how a person reacts to the loss of a loved one. This is a resource from the American Cancer Society.
Hospice Care
From the National Library of Medicine, this is a page from MedlinePlus on Hospice care.
Hospice Foundation of America
The mission of Hospice Foundation of America is to provide leadership in the development and application of hospice and its philosophy of care with the goal of enhancing the U.S. health care system and the role of hospice within it.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Coping with Grief
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
Societal Challenges
