TheOncoPT Podcast
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How to Handle Death & Dying as an OncoPT, part 1
51 minutes Posted Nov 8, 2022 at 11:00 am.
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Can you truly prepare for your first patient dying?  Today’s guest says no.

Death & dying is absolutely a part of OncoPT, but it doesn’t get talked about nearly enough.

We may have a natural tendency to avoid these topics, but this actually hurts our patients.  So how do we start talking about death & dying?

By having these conversations ourselves.

When we talk about death & dying, we can open the door for our patients to have these conversations.  Today I’m talking about death & dying with the person I literally go to when I need to have these conversations: my sister.

Back by popular demand, Corissa Decker, RN, BSN is an oncology nurse, BMT extraordinaire, & advocate for having the hard conversations to truly improve patient care.  We talked about our first patient deaths, the injustice of not talking about death & dying, & how to start making a change in our practices.

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