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Facing Controversies in End-of-Life Care

This post was first published on The New York Academy of Medicine’s Urban Health Matters Blog on Monday, May 2, 2016 and is reposted here with permission from the NYAM.

Barbara Glickstein is co-director of The Center for Health, Media & Policy at Hunter College City University of New York and a member of the Academy Fellows Section on Nursing.

Spending intimate time with people who are dying, and their families or caregivers, is part of being a registered nurse. All too often, a nurse‘s clinical expertise and heightened intuition informs them of a shared truth at a critical time—they, and their patients, often know when death is not far away. But the word “death“ is never uttered.

In those moments, nurses often stand silent and morally conflicted as an all-too-familiar scenario unfolds. An attending physician offers the patient and family another treatment option. The first two failed miserably. The nurse silently wonders, “This person is dying—why isn’t the option of calling in palliative care being discussed?“ The patient looks to their loved ones for an answer. They say “yes“ to the physician, please go ahead and schedule the treatment as soon as possible. [continue reading here]

May 3, 2016

author: Barbara Glickstein

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Health, Policy

NYAM EVENT: Dying in America: Complex Choices

The New York Academy of Medicine event on Thursday, May 5th, ‘Dying In America: Complex Choices’ is sponsored by The Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare.

This event will explore issues about end of life, framing the conversation around the quality of life before death, and the health professional’s role in making end of life care better.

The panelists are: Amy Berman, RN – Senior Program Officer, John A. Hartford Foundation; Carolyn Jones – Filmmaker; Kenneth Prager, MD – Professor of Clinical Medicine, Director of Clinical Ethics and Chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee, Columbia University Medical Center; and Judith Schwarz, RN, PhD – Clinical Director, End of Life Choices New York.

CHMP’s co-director, Barbara Glickstein, RN MPH MS will moderate the panel.

This program is designed for healthcare providers, students, patients and families looking to gain a greater understanding of healthcare and decision making at the End of Life.

Thursday, May 5, 2016 5:30 PM to 7:45 PM

Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street

April 28, 2016

author: Editorial Staff

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HealthCetera

Integrative Approaches to Pain Management

HealthCetera host Barbara Glickstein interviews Johanna L. Gaskins, DNP RN, CCAP, on the use of integrative approaches to pain management using aromatherapy and other evidence-based therapies. Dr Gaskins recently completed the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree focusing on Integrative Health and Healing (IHH) from the University of Minnesota and is a Certified Clinical Aromatherapy Practitioner. She explains the plant biology of essential oils, their use in managing pain, and how she integrates aromatherapy and other evidence-based practices (EBP) in academic, professional and community-based settings.

This interview will be broadcast on HealthCetera, Thursday, April 28 at 1 PM on WBAI 99.5 FM and streamed at www.wbai.org

You can listen to the interview here on our iTunes channel.

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Dr. Gaskins shared this video, Understanding Pain What to do about it in less than five minutes. It provides the science that explains how the integrative approaches Dr. Gaskins discusses can be effective in managing both acute and chronic/persistent pain.