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HOW I PASSED THE HPNA'S CERTIFIED HOSPICE AND PALLIAVE CARE (CHPN) EXAM!

 

Hospice has definitely helped me grow – as a person as well as a nurse. My outlook on life has changed because of it. I’ve noticed that there is one commonality among those whom we serve, and that in the end, it all comes down to relationships. Some are enjoying the relationships they have with a supportive spouse or children, others are mending fences or mourning the loss of a relationship or regretting not having done more to nurture a relationship while they could. Even when a patient is concerned about finances, it is usually because they want someone they love to be well cared for when they're gone.

I've yet to hear a person say they wished they would've become a rock star or went hang gliding over the Rockies or even made a million bucks or spent more time at the office when they reach the end of their life. It's always something about their relationships with people.

So the important things in life are RELATIONSHIPS. Knowing this has helped me nurture the ones I have and become more forgiving and tolerant. It has also helped me to forgive and walk away from relationships that were not productive or nurturing. The other lesson I’ve learned here is: LIFE IS SHORT. Every interaction with someone we care about is a chance to create another memory, so it’s important to treat each opportunity we have to create a memory for someone as though it might be the last. At, 50+ years of age I'm finding, I NEED MORE TIME! If you could grant me even another 50 years, it wouldn't be enough to figure life out and be with the people I want to be with.

OK, a little bit of a deep thinking on my part, but hey, it's my web site! Hang loose, and remember, life is short and relationships are everything! If you love someone, tell them today. You don't know if you'll have another tomorrow! Guiomar Goransson, RN, CHPN.

NEW LINKS ADDED MAY 25, 2008

NURSING HISTORY

Famous Nurses

Florence Nightingale Quotations

Florence Nightingale Tribute

Kittyboxers™ Virtual Museum of Nursing History (temporarily down)

Postcards of Nursing - Worldwide Tribute

 

THRILLING WEB PAGES!

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the one thing that he can't afford to lose. --Thomas A. Edison

Captain Gus Goransson

My Favorite Biochemist!

Blackie's Web Page

Topogijo Memorial Page

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GUIOMAR'S PAPERS & TUTORIALS FROM THE CAT BOX

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." -- Albert Einstein

The following papers and tutorials are my own works and may not be reprinted without permission

.Co-Family Sleeping

Binge Drinking

Dental Caries in Children

Electrolytes, a Primer

Elimination: Catheters

MAOIs

Medical Ethics - A Case for Cloning

Microbiology - How B. Cereus Got Its Name

Microbiology B. Cereus

Orem Process Paper: Gastritis, ESRD, Diabetes

Orem Process Paper: Pneumonia Care Plan

Orem Psychiatric Process Paper - Risk for Suicide/Major Depression

Pathophysiology - Fibromyalgia

Spiritual Strength in African American Literature and Storytelling

Women in Business History - Mary Pickford

STUDY HELPS

"Do first what you dread the most." -- Anonymous

Adult Learning - 30 Things We Know for Sure

APA Format - Purdue

Be a Clutter Free Distance Learner

How to Take Tests

MLA Format - Purdue U.

Primary vs. Secondary Sources BGSU

Taking a Multiple Choice Test

Templates for Research Papers

Write an A+ Research Paper

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NURSING

"Things are only impossible until they're not." -- Jean-Luc Picard

30+ Nursing Journals Online - Some Free Articles

Care Plan Resources

Case Study Collection - Childbed Fever

Cultural Competence & Patient Care

Dale's Nursing Place

Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Framework (when login appears, leave blank, click OK)

Erikson Tutorial Home Page

Future Nurses

Male Nurse Magazine

More Nursing Care Plans

NANDA International

NCLEX-RN Sample Q's

Notes on Nursing Full Text On Line

Nursetoon Humor

Nursing Network on Violence Against Women

Nursing Theory Page

Patient Teaching

Patient Teaching - MediScene

Pet Facilitated Therapy in Nursing Homes

Surgical Instruments

Virtual Hospital

Virtual Naval Hospital

West Yorkshire History of Nursing

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DRUGS: ADMINISTRATION & CALCULATIONS FOR NURSES

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. --Albert Einstein

Drug Interactions

Health Touch - Drug Resource

Insulin Web Sites

IV Dilution Guide

IV Push - How Fast?

IV Push Precautions

IV Push Quizzes

Martindale's Pharmacy Center

Merck Manual Online

IV Starts - Improving Your Odds!

Methods of Chemo Admin

Pharmacology Math

Rx List - Drug Search

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NURSING SCHOOLS

Charity School of Nursing, New Orleans

Lourdes College, Sylvania, OH

Loyola University, New Orleans

Lund-Helsingborg School of Nursing, Sweden

Our Lady of Holy Cross College, New Orleans

University of New Orleans

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LIFE SCIENCE LINKS

"I am not young enough to know everything." --Oscar Wilde

Acid Base Mnemonic

Anatomy Instant

Anatomy Virtual

Anatomy & Physiology Tutorials

Chemicool Periodic Table

Chemistry Basics for Anatomy & Physiology

Chemistry - Mr. Bright's Links

Chemistry Tutor

Endorphins - Free Smack!

Lund Virtual Medical Journal (includes many articles on nursing + other areas) Lund, Sweden

Math - Bryn Mawr Survival Skills for Problem Solving

Medical Informatics at McGill

Medical Mnemonics

Microbe Zoo

Microbiology Cells Alive!

Microbiology Pathogenic Bacterial Photo Gallery

Microbiology - Tulane Big Picture Book of Viruses

Nutrition Facts

Organic Chemistry Help

Parasitology Atlas

Pathology Lab

Pathophysiology History

Pharmacology for Nurses Sample Exam Questions

Physiology Online Learning Ctr.

Prescription Drug Information & Pharmacy

Prokaryotes

Statistics Lessons

Virtual Body

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Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. - Nicola Abbagnano

ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

Carl Larsson's Official Homepage

Casa Buonarroti - Florence

Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea

Chateau de Versailles

Dalarnas Museum

Göteborgs Konstmuseum

Catland, the Art of Louis Wain

Louvre Museum Official Website

Nationalmuseum Stockholm

QUILTING, SEWING, COLLECTING SEWING MACHINES & NEEDLEWORK

"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic." -- Anonymous

Barnyard Craft

Block Patterns - Free!

Dating Your Singer

Denim Fray Edge Quilt

Denim Quilt Making

Free Paper Foundation Quilt Piecing Patterns

HGTV

Quilting & Sewing Mail Lists

Int'l Sewing Machine Collector' Society

Rice Comfort Packs, Rice Bags, Rice Heating Pads FREE PATTERN

Sue's Cross Stitch Freebie Finder

Treadleon - Collecting Treadles & Hand Cranks

World Wide Quilting Page

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NEW ORLEANS

"The City That Care Forgot"

Laissez les bon temps roulier (Let the good times roll) -Cajun saying

Antoine's Official Restaurant Site

Belles on Bourbon St.

Bloody Mary Spirit Tours

Cafe Du Monde

Creole for Beginners

Experience NO!

French Quarter Festival

French Quarter Walking Tours

Gumbo Pages

Haunted New Orleans

Jackson Square

Louisiana/Cajun Directory

Louisiana Music Archive and Artist Directory

Louisiana Weekly - News That Matters to Us!

Music, Culture and Food

NOLA Everything NO

New Orleans Area Maps

New Orleans and Louisiana 100 Essential CD'

New Orleans Cat House

New Orleans Cemetary & Voodoo Pages

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

NO Pharmacy Museum

New Orleans Photos

New Orleans Photographs

New Orleans Kats & French Quarter Rats

Offbeat - NO & LA Music

Pat O'Briens

Pet de Kat Krewe - Worldwide Festivalists

Radio Free New Orleans

Southern Spirits

St. Louis Cathedral

Times of Arcadiana

Vieux Carre Alliance

Voodoo History

What to See & Do in the Big Easy

Words to Know in NO

Yeah You Rite! Transcript

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ITALIAN CULTURE

"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." Clemenza to Rocco in "The Godfather"

The Corno

Enthusiasts of Italy & Italian Culture

Evil Eye

Italian Adult Slang

Italian Americans

Italian for Beginners

Roman Mythology

Siciliani

A caval donato non si guarda in bocca. (Don't look a gift horse in the mouth) ~ Italian proverb

SCANDINAVIAN CULTURE

A woman's heart sees more than ten men's eyes --Swedish proverb

Alfred Nobel

Log Cabins

Nobel Peace Prize

Prehistoric Scandinavia

Riksdagen

Nyheter - News in Swedish

Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology

Skansen

Sveriges Television

Swedish Information Smorgasbord

Swedish Jokes

Swedish National Anthem

Swedish Web Ring

Things That are Different in Sweden

Tomten

Trolls - All About!

Uff da!

Vikings Gods

Viking Religion

See LITERATURE, FOLK TALES & STORY TELLING

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HEALTH/MEDICINE

"I want nothing to do with natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get." -- George Burns

American Iatrogenic Association

Breast Cancer Risk Calculator

Detox Programme

Fibromyalgia Network

Healthfinder Guide

Healthscout

History of Diseases

Human-Animal Health Connection

Hypertension Network

InteliHealth

Quackwatch

Natural Food - What is Meat?

Rice Comfort Packs, Rice Bags, Rice Heating Pads Make Your Own

Sleep & Epilepsy

Stop Smoking Quitmeter

Walking Calculator

Weight Loss Psychology

Why Quit

You Are What You Eat

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"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." -Albert Pike

HOSPICE NURSING

Advance Directives - How To Download Your State’s Forms (pdf file)

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

American Pain Society

Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life

Beth Isreal Med Cter Dept. of Pain Meds and Palliative Care

Caring Connections

City of Hope - Pain/Palliative Care Resource Center

Dying Well: Defining Wellness Thru the End-of-Life

End of Life Physician Education Resources (EPERC)

EndLink Resource for End-of-Life Care Education

Finding Our Way: Living with Dying in America - The Online Course

Hospice Net

Hospice of Northwest Ohio

Nursing Leadership Consortium for End-of-Life Care

Toolkit of Instruments to Measure End of Life Care

Tube Feeding Options at the End of Life

Yahoo's Hospice Links

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DOGS, CATS, ANIMALS & PET THERAPY

"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." - Mark Twain

American Pet Statistics

Animal CPR

Animal Greeting Cards

Austrailian Animals

Canine Anatomy

Canine Behaviour Centre

Cat Poetry

Cat Superstitions

Cryptozoology - Large Animals

Dog News: Weird, Inspiring Dog Tales

Ear Infections With Dogs

Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum

Fabulous Mainzer Cat Postcard Images

Feline Folklore

Great Dog Quotes

Human-Animal Health Connection

Manatees May Have Been Mermaids


Narwhals

The Many Faces of Blackie

Pet Facilitated Therapy in Nursing Homes

Pet Massage

Police Dog Stryker

Rules for Cats Who Own Humans

Scandinavian Folk Tales with Cats!

Totem Animals

Train Your Cat to Use the Toilet

Veterinary Nurse, Becoming a

What Do Dogs Know?

Wolf Country

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PEOPLE OF COLOR & OCTOROONS

Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon

What is an Octoroon?

People of Color in Old Tennessee

The Octoroon; or, The Lily of Louisiana

White Like Me - Anatole Broyar

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SCHEMES, SCAMS, FRAUDS, CONS, HUSTLES, HOAXES & URBAN LEGENDS

"It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless." -- John Kenneth Galbraith -

Archive of Email Forwards

Beware of Scams

Crime Library

Crimes of Persuasion

Fraud-Aid.com

Fraudtech

Internet ScamBusters

Museum of Hoaxes

Quacks & Charlatans

Urban Legends Reference Pages

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HISTORY

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. ~ Robert F. Kennedy

Ancient Egypt

HUMOR

Humor is just another defense against the universe. ~ Mel Brooks

Caricature Zone

How to Swear in a Foreign Language

Humorous Essays

International Swearing and Curse Dictionary

Magic Cyber Camera

Make Your Own Rock Band

Mini Clip Free Games!

Money Origami

Online Card & Magic Tricks

Patch Adams Gesundeit! Institute

Picks' Tribute to the Simpsons

Science Jokes

Snappy Comebacks

Swedish Singing Interactive Horses

Virtual Bubble Wrap

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VERBAL ABUSE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, & RECOVERY FROM RELATIONSHIPS

"Speak in anger and you'll give the greatest speech you'll ever regret." -- Anonymous

AND BECAUSE ENQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW....

"We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge and wisdom." -- John Naisbitt

Albert Einstein Online

BBC News

Discovery Network

Dogpile

Drudge Report

Stephen Hawking

Straight Dope

Useless Info Home Page

Weekly World News

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LITERATURE, FOLK TALES & STORY TELLING

"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows of the world, lighthouses erect in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print." -- Barbara Tuchman

African American Writers" Online E-Texts

Banned Books Online

Beowulf On Line

Folk & Fairy Tale Links

Free Book Notes

Hobbit Name Generator

Homework Help, Study Guides, Book Summaries, Online Literature

Lenny's Alice in Wonderland Site

Lewis Carroll Home Page

Literature Network

Through the Looking Glass - Project Gutenberg

Scandinavian Folk & Fairy Tales

Scandinavian Folk Tales with Cats

Understanding Scandinavian Folk Tales

Web Resources on African American Literature

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PSYCHOLOGY

"Life is an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." -- Carl Sandburg

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ANTHROPOLOGY

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. --Albert Einstein

Aboriginal Northern Europeans

Amazon Watch

American Indian Culture Reasearch Center of the Dakotas

Anthropology Links

Culture & Ethnicity in Philosophy

Facial Recognition

Leakey Foundation

Major Cultures

Margaret Mead

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The Owl and the Pussy Cat

 

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea

In a beautiful pea-green boat,

They took some honey, and plenty of money

. Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

 

The Owl looked up to the stars above,

And sang to a small guitar,

'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,

What a beautiful Pussy you are,

You are

You are!

What a beautiful Pussy you are!'

 

Pussy said to the Owl,

'You elegant fowl!

How charmingly sweet you sing!

O let us be married! too long we have tarried:

But what shall we do for a ring?'

 

They sailed away, for a year and a day,

To the land where the Bong-tree grows

And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood

With a ring at the end of his nose,

His nose,

His nose,

With a ring at the end of his nose.

 

'Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling

Your ring? Said the Piggy, 'I will.'

So they took it away, and were married next day

By the Turkey who lives on the hill.

 

They dined on mince, and slices of quince,

Which they ate with a runcible spoon;

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,

They danced by the light of the moon,

The moon,

The moon,

They danced by the light of the moon.

Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)

 

 

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