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The Art of Nursing End-of-Life Patients

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andy Allen-Dansby remembers when her first patient died. “I was 19 years old, working on a medsurg floor at Virginia Beach General, and I just cried and cried,” she says. When her floor was closed for renovations in the early 90s, Allen-Dansby was transferred to an oncology unit.

“I didn’t want to go,” she says. “I thought, they’re all dying up here and I didn’t want to deal with a lot of death.” Today she’s a hospice nurse at Sentara Hospice House. What changed?

“I discovered how much of a difference I can make,” she says simply.

For those who work in end-of-life care, healing may be relative, but it’s also very real.

Terri Coleman, a Sentara hospice nurse who does home care, explains: “Even though our patients don’t get better physically, they can get that healing emotionally or even spiritually.”

Often the process begins by offering patients new ways to think about their condition. “When I have a new admission and I present the home program, I always tell them we are not about dying,” says Coleman. “Hospice has such a stigma – oh, they just give you morphine and you go to sleep and you die,” she says. “That’s not it at all. We want our patients comfortable, yes, but we want them to have a good quality of life too.”

Allen-Dansby agrees. “We’re not concentrating on the last day because we don’t know when that will be. Instead we take every day as it comes and enjoy it to the fullest. I think they’re making advances in pain management and now patients can be cared for at home or someplace like the Hospice House and not spend their last days on earth in a hospital.”

Sentara Hospice House patients enjoy large, sunny rooms, a patio and butterfly garden, and plenty of space for families to gather. Medical equipment is readily accessible to nurses, but there’s nothing institutional about the way the place feels.

Coleman’s patients are able to remain in their homes and soon begin to regard her much like a family member, she says.

“We do fingernails and have makeup parties, color, talk about books or current events. We bring the outside world in.”

Sometimes the humor can veer toward the morbid, says Coleman, like the patient who told her he was going to be the Grim Reaper for Halloween. “But it’s their way of coming to terms with their situation.”

Patients and their families look forward to her visits, she says. “Hospice nurses are not dismal. We’re a bunch of happy people. We want to bring life into the home.”

All nurses are trained to read patients for non-verbal insights, but end-of-life caregivers perfect that skill.

“Sometimes there is pain that you can’t touch,” says Coleman. “There may be a lot of emotional stuff there that no amount of medicine will help. We don’t take the place of our social workers or chaplains, but we’re in the home and can’t really say put that issue on hold till the chaplain gets here.

“So, it’s what do I need to do to make you more comfortable right now? Is it reassurance or touch? This is their last journey – we don’t get do-overs. We have to get it right the first time.”

Allen-Dansby believes helping patients find that degree of comfort can be as important as the physical care she provides.

“There may be something bothering them, something they need to take care of, and if you can help them identify what that is, that’s a good thing.”

Years ago when one of her first patients was having problems breathing, he asked his wife to place a call to his sister, says Allen-Dansby. “He said he was seeing a light,” she says. His wife brushed aside his request, assuring him that everything was fine and they’d call once they got home.

“But if we deny that death is occurring, we miss something,” says Allen-Dansby. She asked her patient what he wanted his sister to know. “Tell her our parents are here and my grandson is here and everything is going to be okay,” he replied.

“That doesn’t happen very often, but when you’re caring for someone, you have to be ready to stop, listen and be in tune with what they need and how you can help them,” she says.

The man passed away before he was able to speak with his sister, says Allen-Dansby. “But he got some peace from being able to tell someone his message.”

Years of hospice nursing have had an impact on the way she looks at life, she says. “When you go to work and have two patients pass on your shift, then go home to your family who are all smiles as you come in the door, it makes you appreciate

life a little bit more. It helps you slow down a bit, be thankful for the things that are important and let go of the things that aren’t.”

Christine Arbogast doesn’t work with hospice patients, but as the nursing manager at Virginia Oncology Associates, she often deals with loss. “You have to have the mentality to take care of people who you know might not make it, and unfortunately that’s a lot of our patients,” she says The field can be heart-wrenching, says Arbogast, but the relationships she’s built over the years have made it more than worthwhile.

“We see a lot of these patients every day or every week,” she says. “You know their family, they know yours, you share stories. You celebrate their remissions or if they’re not doing well, you are there to hold their hand, hug them and help them through the end of life. They’re vulnerable, they’re scared and sometimes they feel hopeless. And you’re able to step in and walk them through it so they know they aren’t alone.

“It’s a meaningful thing because you’ve really given something beyond yourself to somebody else. It’s just a special bond.”

Arbogast had one patient she took care of for 8 years before he died. “He’d bring me jokes and cartoons when he came in every week,” she says. “I still have six of them hanging behind my desk and I think of him often. He and his wife gave my Continued to page 3

Sandy Allen-Dansby, a Sentara Hospice House nurse, prepares a bed for a patient. “I feel it’s an honor that I get to be here for my patients, to love on them and support them emotionally,” she says. “I enjoy every moment I have with them for however long that is.”

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daughter a beautiful little blanket when she was born nine years ago. That blanket is hanging on by threads, but she loves it. That’s how impactful these relationships are.”

While Arbogast mourns the death of her patients, she’s consoled by knowing they’re no longer in pain, she says. “It may be rationalizing, but I can look at the patients I took care of and review their life, their accomplishments, the fact that they were adults who lived a full life and that helps with the sadness.

“Every now and then I run into a nurse who isn’t a good fit for this field and I’ve wondered to myself it it’s just a protective mechanism on their part so they don’t have to feel too much. But I think that when you put that wall up, you’re taking something away from your patient, and really from your experience as a nurse.”

For Allen-Dansby, working with this very vulnerable patient population serves as both a reminder and a reason to continue caring. “The reality is all of us are going to pass away,” she says. “I’d want someone to be there for me, supporting me emotionally, loving on me, so that’s what I’m going to keep giving.”

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National Nurses Week May 6-12

Celebrating Our Nurses 2016 Most of us can point to a nurse who has touched our lives in an important way, bringing healing, alleviating pain, offering practical hope and much-needed comfort. A nurse is a compassionate lifeline, an irreplaceable caregiver, touching both patient and family members during stressful, sometimes shattering times. To honor these heroes, we set aside the week of May 6-12 every year to acknowledge and thank them during National Nurses Week.

Caring for an end-of-life patient goes beyond relieving physical discomfort. This is a field of nursing where touch and reassurance are crucial nursing tools.

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f hotels guests can hang Do Not Disturb signs, why can’t New Jersey, she accepted. “It was the first time I had seen snow, I was hospital patients, wondered Gloria Gozon. “So I created what so excited,” says Gozon. In 1991, she relocated to Virginia Beach for a I call Zzzzz man,” she says. The little blue signs are affixed to job with Sentara Leigh.

In her 25 years with the hospital, she’s gained a reputation for patients’ doorways when they request them, telling nurses to do shift change reports outside the room instead of bedside when nurturing young nurses and nudging them into leadership roles. “If you have a question or need help, you the patient is sleeping.

Gozon, who works nights on an never see impatience on her face,” says oncology floor, is fiercely protective Baybay, “even if you ask her to explain In her 25 years with of her patients and always thinking of something over and over again. She’s the hospital, she’s gained a new ways to care for them, says Donna there until you get it.”

Baybay, one of many Sentara Leigh Gozon says it goes back to something reputation for nurturing young nurses Gozon has mentored over the a nurse manager taught her years ago. nurses and nudging them into years. “She will not compromise any “She said, ‘Don’t eat your young.’ And it’s leadership roles. safety procedure, and if she sees a bed something I understood because I’ve been there, I know exactly how that new nurse alarm go off, she’ll drop everything feels, especially coming from another part she’s doing and run. But what struck me from the very beginning of working with her is how very of the world.”

The energetic Gozon is a familiar face at volunteer church and knowledgeable she is – she’s like a walking book.”

Born in the Philippines, Gozon watched helplessly as her brother community events and is part of Sentara’s No One Dies Alone fell ill and died at 16 years of age. “We grew up in a poor family and program. “Some patients near the end of life don’t have family he was very sick for a long time,” remembers Gozon. Nursing school members or their family can’t be there with them in the hospital,” says equipped her with the skills to care for people like her brother and also Gozon. So on her days off, Gozon occasionally receives an alert and slips quietly into the room of a dying patient. gave her a way to help her parents financially.

“It makes a difference,” says Gozon. “Nurses make a difference.”

When healthcare recruiters from the States offered Gozon a job in

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eg Collins has a different definition of retirement in surgical pediatrics before transitioning out of the service to a hospital than most of us – just ask the hundreds of people on Long Island. “I thought New York sounded like fun; I had never she screens, educates and encourages at community been there before,” says Collins. Her adventurous nature was intrigued when one of the doctors she worked with talked about his summer health events in Hampton Roads.

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“I decided to go out for an interview at the Indian Health Services Secours, first spotted Collins in action at a health fair in a disadvantaged neighborhood. hospital in Window Rock and they “It was an ‘aha’ moment for me,” he accepted me,” Collins says. “It was culture Most nurses are hired says. “She inspired me to create a shock.” because they fit a job description. position within Bon Secours for a nurse Most patients only spoke Navajo, so whose work would focus on screening hospital staff at the 45-bed facility worked Collins was hired to be the and educating outside the clinic and through interpreters. And in respect job description. hospital.” to Navajo culture, when a medicine Most nurses are hired because they man would arrive to perform a healing ceremony for a patient, Collins had to stop whatever procedure she was fit a job description. Collins was hired to be the job description.

You’ll find her screening on loading docks, in break rooms, at doing and leave the room. “Sometimes we had to stay out for 6 or 8 50-member cinderblock churches and in corporate board rooms, says hours,” she says.

As much as she loved her work, Collins missed Virginia and came Loftus, and this wide variety of worksites serves as an apt reflection of home to jobs at a children’s hospital, in family practice and in long-term her very diverse career.

Collins started a three-year nursing program in 1968 at what care. “It was like coming full circle,” she says.

Though she’s no longer nursing full time, Collins isn’t quite ready was then simply Norfolk General. “We lived in dorms there and had a curfew at 8 o’clock in the evening, with study hall until 10 o’clock,” to close out her storied career, especially with the enviable terms of her newest job. “I have the pure enjoyment of being able to do the skills, recalls Collins. Dorm mothers enforced lights out.

After graduation, she spent several years in the U.S. Navy working but I’m not tied to all the paperwork,” she laughs.

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oo many patients were walking into her infusion center progressive care and cardiac step-down patients on the night shift with aplastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, because those hours worked best for her young children. disorders that affect the blood and bone marrow, and “As the children grew older, I wanted to move to days, so I Eden Biskey wanted to do something about it. “You get interviewed for this job,” says Biskey. “I didn’t really know a lot to know these patients, you get to know their families, about IV therapy then, but this has turned out to be one of the most it gets personal,” rewarding jobs I’ve ever had. You have time she says. with your patients, you have time to do Sometimes nursing means employing So she organized a walk to raise education with them, you have time to support money for research, and on a chilly them emotionally.” an array of high tech tools, sometimes Saturday morning last November, If that means singing to patients to it means offering an extra touch of 75 people circled a track at Sentara calm fraying nerves, Biskey lets loose. empathy. Eden Biskey is master of both.

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Christie Stallter Registered Nurse ICU at Sentara Virginia Beach General Connie Busey RN Sentara Norfolk General ER Cosmon Campbell LPN Beth Sholom Home Crystal Nurse Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Rheumatology Crystal Bene Care Coordinator Sentara Leigh Hospital Cynthia Colligan Director, Clinical Care Services Optima Health Dallas Williams BSN, RN Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Dana Beasley Nurse Supervisor Mary Immaculate Hospital Darla Althizer RN Sentara Anticoagulation Services - River Walk Dawn M. Spring LPN Sentara Surgery Specialists at Obici Dawn Spring LPN Sentara Surgery Specialists Debbie Winesett RN Sentara Anticoagulation Services Independence Deborah Kurtz Certified Case Manager Optima Health Plan DeeDee Kenneally Clinical Nurse II -RNC Sentara Princess Anne Hospital Denise Spellman Registered Nurse The Hospital for Extended Recovery Dionne Gibbs Dean of Nursing Fortis College Donna Scott LPN Depaul Medical Associates Dorchia Thorton LPN Maryview Nursing Care Center Dorothy Wiegel RN, Radiology Department Mary Immaculate Hospital Radiology Department Ed Walker RN, Team Coordinator Cath and Vascular Labs Sentara CarePlex Hospital Eden Biskey Staff RN SWRMC - Infusion Center Elaine Boyd RN SWRMC 3N Elizabeth Adamson Intensive Care Unit Elizabeth Schubert RN, BSN Med/Surg certified Sentara Virginia Beach General, OPMSU Emily Kamppi RN, CCRN (Certified Critical Care Registered Nurse) Sentara Leigh Intensive Care Unit Emily Richmond Registered Nurse Sentata Norfolk General, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit Emily Uperti Registered Nurse Sentara Leigh Hospital Fiona Hawley RN, CAPA Sentara Virginia Beach General, OPMSU Gabrielle Williams LPN, Unit Manager Beth Sholom Home Gabrielle Williams LPN, Unit Manager Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Virginia Gail Romero VAD coordinator Sentara Heart Hospital/ SNGH Gloria Gozon Unit Coordinator Sentara Leigh Hospital Grace Magallon Patient Care Supervisor Sentara Leigh Hospital Grace N Myers MSN,CNS,RNC-OB,NE-BC, Vice President/ Nurse Executive SNGH Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Gwen Amond RN, Nurse Manager Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Urgent Care Haidz Hefner RN Sentara Princess Anne Hospital-IMC Heather Erickson MEd, BSN, RNC-LRN, Staff Nurse Sentara Leigh Family Maternity Center Helen Washington-Randall RN-Nurse Navigator Mary Immaculate Hospital Ida Armstead Registered Nurse, Certified Rehabilitation Nursing Sentata Norfolk General, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit Ivy Buxton Director of Nursing Cedar Manor Assisted Living

Jackie Hill Licensed Practical Nurse Sentata Norfolk General, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit Jami Snell-Farmer Registered Nurse Cardiovascular Specialists Incorporated Jan Jinright RN, Chemotherapy Nurse Virginia Oncology Associates Janet S. Jones RN-Quality Initiatives Nurse Janice H. Harris LPN Sentara Ambulatory Care Center, ACC Jasmine Oreweiler Registered Nurse ICU at Sentara Virginia Beach General Jeanene Speller-Peet RN Hemodialysis Jenn RN Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters,Norfolk 8th floor HEM/ONC unit Jessica Scott RN 5RP Jessica Zirbes LPN Nansemond Suffolk Family Practice Jewel Burden RN Sentara Leigh Hospital Joani Brough Nurse Executive Sentara Princess Anne Hospital Jodi Jones Nurse Manager of Preop and Pre Admission Testing Maryview Medical Center John Williamson RN, Radiology Support Mary Immaculate Hospital Radiology Deparment JoMarie MacAlpine RN Sentara Leigh Hospital Jordan Dail Registered Nurse CCU at Sentara Virginia Beach General Josh Dolensky RN, BSN Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab Josie Getty Doctor's Assistant EVMS Judith Foxwell RN Sentra Virginia Beach General, PASS Karen Anderson Senior Night Shift Nurse Mary Immaculate Hospital Karen Houston Registered Nurse Maryview Medical Center Emergency Department Karen Thornton Team Coordinator, Healthcare Services Optima Health Kari Holowiak Registered Nurse 7C, Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Katherine Grizzle RN Bon Secours Vein and Vascular Specialists, Porstmouth Kathi Hudgins RN Sentara Norfolk General General Intensive Care Unit Kathleen Bivan LPN Sentara Ambulatory Care Center Kathy Holley Nursing Care Partner Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Kathy Horton RN Sentara Anticoagulation Services Kempsville Kathy Price-Ward Clinical Nurse Specialist Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Katy Trapp Educator Sentara Leigh Hospital Keeshon Goodwin Registered Nurse Sentara CarePlex Hospital Kelly Lewis Staff Nurse Family Birth Center Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center Kelsey Page Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, NICU Kerri Stogsdill Registered Nurse/Clincal Care Lead Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center Keyanda M. Thompson Ambulatory Practice Nurse Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, Child and Family Guidance & Consultation Kimberly Newton Director Medical/Surgical Nursing Chesapeake Regional Hospital Kimberly Price Nurse Manager Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital

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2016 NURSE NOMINATIONS Megan Donnally Nurse Manager, Hem/Onc Unit Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Megan Houck RN Chesapeake Regional Center 4 West Melissa Bush BSN, RN Nursing Supervisor Sentara Obici Hospital Melissa Caden RN, Radiology Support Mary Immaculate Hospital Radiology Department Melissa Darcy RN Sentara Anticoagulation Services Princess Anne Melissa Rothenburg RN CCBDC Melvina Tyson Clinical Nurse Manager - Resource Pool Sentara Medical Group Michele Churchill RN Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Emergency Room Michelle White LPN East Beach Medical Associates Milagros Lapira Unit Coordinator Intensive Care Unit Mindy Seigh VAD coordinator Sentara Heart Hospital/ SNGH Mirna Medina Gonzalez RN, Nurse Manager Sentara Heart Hospital CICU and ICU Mirna Medina-Gonzales Nurse Manager Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Mirna Medina-Gonzalez Manager-eICU & CICU Sentara Norfolk General Hospital & Sentara Heart Hospital Mirna Medina-Gonzalez BSN, Clinical Manager CICU/ eICU Sentara Norfolk General/Sentara Heart Hospital Morag Corrigan Nurse Manager Sentara Leigh Hospital Myra Ragasa BSN, RN, Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse (WOCN) Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Nadine Steele Registered Nurse Bon Secour Mary Immaculate Nicole Hill Nurse Specialist ICU at Sentara Virginia Beach General Nilda Castillo Registered Nurse Sentara Norfolk General Short Stay Observation Unit Nina Wilson RN Sentara Virginia Beach General, PACU Nurses of Sentara Anticoagulation Services RNs Sentara Medical Group Pam Deehan RN, Nursing Supervisor Sentara Obici Hospital Pam Simon Unit Coordinator, RN, Certified in Rehabilitation Nursing Sentata Norfolk General, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit Patricia Corliss RN, MDS Coordinator Beth Sholom Home Patrick O'Brien Registered Nurse Sentara CarePlex Hospital, Emergency Department Paulette Carlson MSN, RN, Clinical Care Services Education and Training Optima Health Peggy Baker CCS Audit and Compliance Manager Optima Health Phyllis Adams Educator Sentara Leigh Hospital Phyllis Stoneburner VP Nursing Sentara Obici Hospital Precious Caravello RN-Quality Initiatives Nurse Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center Rachel Andam-Mejia CPES 7C, Children's Hospital of the King's Daughers Research Council Racquel Wrice RN Sentra Norfolk General Outpatient Infusion Center, Hampton Ralph Rosignolo Director of Patient Care Services Sentara Leigh Hospital Randale Dizon Registered Nurse Sentata Norfolk General, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit Randi Ott Registered Nurse SDU at Sentara Virginia Beach General

Raven Hammond Registered Nurse SDU at Sentara Virginia Beach General Rebecca Murdoch RN, BSN Sentara Obici Hospital Emergency Department Rebecca Oteng Registered Nurse Sentata Norfolk General, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit Rebecca Samples Registered Nurse Resource Pool Rizza Mejia Unit Coordinator Sentara Leigh Hospital Rob Nurse - Oncology Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Robin McClelland Team Coordinator - Imaging/Cardiology Nursing Sentara Obici Hospital Ruth, Eliane, Bonnie LPN Bon Secours Sabrina Lane Registered Nurse Intensive Care Unit Sarah McDonald RN, CPAN Sentara Virginia Beach General, PACU Sarah Mooney Head nurse Internists of Churchland Sarah Zuidema RN Sentara Princess Anne Labor and Delivery Sharon Riddick RN, Director of Clinical Operations of Hampton Roads Bon Secours Home Care Sheryl Bailey R.N. BSN, CWOCN, Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse Maryview Medical Center Shirley Adjoudad RN Depaul Medical Center, 3SOUTH Shirley Dowdy Care Coordinator Sentara Leigh Hospital Stacey Doxey RN General Intensive Care Unit Stacie Clarke BSN, RN Nursing Supervisor Sentara Obici Hospital Susan Argus Outcomes Manager- Care Management Depaul Medical Center Susan T hatcher Nurse Virginia Beach General Talia Tennant RN, Clinical Care Lead Bon Secours Harbour View Endoscopy Taquania Washington Nurse Manager Sentara Leigh Hospital Teresa Patterson Nurse Practitioner Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital Terri Gillen RN- Cardiac Sentara Careplex Hospital The Entire Nursing Staff at Sentara Obici Hospital RNs and LPNs Sentara Obici Hospital Theresa Engbersen RN-BC Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center Tiffany Parker RN-Unit Coordinator Sentara Heart Hospital Tina Boyles LPN, Authorization Coordinator Optima Health Tina Harris MA Nansemond Suffolk Family Practice Tricia Christoffer Registered Nurse 2W Cardiac UnitSentara Virginia Beach Hospital Valerie Sommer Director of Nursing Harbour View ED/ Maryview Foundation Clinic Verna Gapuz BSN, RN Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Wendy Mitchell Team Leader/ Educator Sentara CarePlex Hospital Yvonne Edomonson Registered Nurse Sentata Norfolk General, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit Yvonne Smith Unit Manager, RN Maryview Nursing Care Centerr

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Celebrating Nurses Week Around The World In China, hospital nurses take time out to recite the Florence Nightingale Pledge, while in Australia, a government spokesman announces that country’s Nurse of the Year.

England holds two official services: in London’s Westminster Abbey, a symbolic lamp from the Nurses’ Chapel is placed on the Abbey’s alter, and at St. Margaret’s Church in Hampshire, the burial place of Florence Nightingale, a service commemorating her legacy is held.

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Thank you to all of the nurses at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare - for your commitment, your compassion and the unbelievable personal care and attention you give to each and every patient you serve.

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