EOL University Podcast: The Hospice Journey: A Step-by-Step Guide with Barbara Karnes RN
Learn about the basics of hospice care, when to consider it, how to talk about it with others, and what to expect during the dying process. Listen here.
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Best Life Best Death, Part 2 "Sticky Questions"
Barbara Karnes, RN and I move into talking about some harder questions that come up in the end-of-life arena, including: When someone is reluctant to have a conversation about the...
Best Life Best Death Podcast, Part 1
How can we better understand the process of gradual death, and how can we benefit from “the gift of time” that is a gradual death? How can “gentle education” help...
Aging, Angst & Alleluias Podcast
Barbara says dementia at end of life and how the the disease "doesn't play by the rules" when it comes to the dying process. Decreased eating and drinking, pain medications, and...
The Death Dialogues Project Podcast
This conversation holds so many jewels that are beneficial for all of us to hear. From what death asks of us to how to be there for ourselves and family...
When You Die Podcast with Johanna Lunn
If it has to do with death and dying, we’re talking about it. With me today is the wonderful multi-award winner Barbara Karnes, a nurse, author and extraordinary end-of-life educator....
The Heart of Hospice Podcast
Barbara Karnes, author of the iconic hospice guide “the little blue book” Gone from My Sight, talks with Jerry and Helen about ritual, self care wisdom, and thriving as end...
Fading Memories Podcast
People with dementia are at risk of receiving inadequate care because they cannot say what they want. Maintaining your verbal and non-verbal communication is essential. Be aware of their eating...
Meaningful Conversations with Singinlisa
Barbara Karnes is an American Hospice Pioneer. She offers compassion as explains the process of dying (Pt.1) She sat by the bedside of many patients who were at the end...
Interim HealthCare San Diego Hospice
End of Life Expert and Hospice Pioneer, Barbara Karnes, RN answers questions from death care workers at Interim HealthCare, San Diego, CA. Barbara explains how to care for the dying, how the...
Mission Hospice Community Conversation
As part of our community education program, Mission Hospice hosted a community conversation with award-winning nurse and end-of-life educator Barbara Karnes, RN. Barbara has been providing clear, easy to understand,...
Life Is A Ceremony Podcast By Patty Bueno
This episode is very special to me because I had the opportunity to interview a woman who brought me so much light when my mother was dying of cancer fourteen...
Educating Your Staff About The End of Life Experience
Today we speak with Barbara Karnes, RN on Educating Your Staff About The End of Life Experience. Barbara is the author of ‘Gone From My Sight’, ‘The Little Blue Book’...
Let's Talk Death Podcast
In this episode, Barbara shares an experience from when she was a 16-year-old nurse’s aide asked to sit with someone dying. Terrified to do so, she was told to let...
Barbara Karnes, R.N., End Of Life Specialist and Author, Takes Questions From Listeners, FaceBook and Other Platforms
Barbara Karnes, R.N., end-of-life specialist and author, takes questions from listeners, Facebook, and other platforms and provides answers in a way each of us can understand.
Culturally Taboo Treatments
Barbara Karnes, R.N., end-of-life specialist and author, takes questions from listeners, Facebook, and other platforms and provides answers in a way each of us can understand.
Grief At The End of Life With Author and Specialist, Barbara Karnes, RN
"In our death ignoring society, COVID has put death right in front of our faces. In modern time we haven't had to face this avalanche of dying..." Barbara Karnes, RN...
Grief at the End-of-Life
Author and end-of-life expert Barbara Karnes, R.N. joins Dr. Michael Fratkin to discuss compassionate palliative care in rural areas. Listen Here... Related Product is My Friend, I Care: The Grief Experience ...
"Gone From My Sight" With American Hospice Pioneer, Barbara Karnes, RN
Barbara Karnes is truly the American Hospice Pioneer. As a nurse, she noticed after her experiences at the bedside of hundreds of people before they died, that each death she...
Does Personality Change As We Approach Death?
Along with Revs. Bill Englehart and Richard Carlini, American Hospice Pioneer, Barbara Karnes, RN discuss' the crucial subjects of grief and loss, which touch each of us during the human...
Journal of Health and Design
Barbara Karnes, RN internationally recognized author, speaker, thought leader and expert on end of life care and the dynamics of dying. July 1, 2020 Barbara Karnes, RN, is an internationally...
The 40 Year Journey to Becoming The Most Sought After End of Life Innovator
Dear Life with Christina Rasmussen EP54: Barbara Karnes, RN In today’s episode, I’m happy to share a truly extraordinary guest, Barbara Karnes, RN. Barbara is an internationally recognized author, speaker,...
From Grief to Grace: Chaz Wesley Talks with Barbara Karnes, RN about End of Life
Twenty-five years ago there was no information available for families about the dying process. One woman changed that. Barbara Karnes, RN, has dedicated the last 32 years of her life...
Corinne Frugoni Talks With Barbara Karnes, RN About The Labor Of Dying
“Birth and death are the only two universal experiences in the human condition.” So writes Barbara Karnes, RN who noticed, after her experience at the bedside of hundreds of people...
Connection Moment with Barbara Karnes, RN
Episode 3 The Heart of Hospice welcomes hospice icon Barbara Karnes back to share her message of encouragement and hope with hospice professionals all over the world. Her warmth and compassion...
End Of Life Issues During Covid-19
Open to Hope Do you have a family member who has recently died? Due to visitation restrictions, sheltering in, and social distancing bereaved families are experiencing isolation and loneliness. Barbara...
Grief at the End of Life with Barbara Karnes, R.N
Barbara Karnes, R.N., nationally known writer and hospice nurse, joins us for our monthly show "Grief at the End of Life."
Ask A Death Doula Interview With Barbara Karnes, RN
Ask A Death Doula On this episode of "Ask a Death Doula", I have the great pleasure of interviewing Barbara Karnes RN. Enjoy this lively discussion from this expert about...
Good Grief Speaks with Barbara Karnes, RN
At the end of life, there is so much mystery, so much we don't know. But because of the work of Barbara Karnes, we do have a map of the...
End of Life with Barbara Karnes, RN
Are we taking better care of our dying family members than we were 30 years ago? It’s a question I ask end of life expert, Barbara Karnes RN on today’s episode. She...
Alaska Radio Show Interviews Barbara Karnes, RN on the Dynamics of Dying
When we think of dynamics we usually think of something like space travel or underwater exploration. The time evolution of physical processes not generally used when we think about dying,...
End of Life: Ease the Transition from Life to Death
Help Choose Home Podcast Although death is an experience that we all share, it is a topic that is largely taboo, and for which people are often wholly unprepared. Barbara...
Barbara Karnes, End of Life Educator and Hospice Nurse
Grief 2 Growth will examine how the greatest tragedies of life often are opportunities for the most advancement. Planted, not buried is the motto of Grief 2 Growth. Unless a...
Barbara Karnes, RN and De-Medicalizing Dying
Deanna Cochran interviews Award winning author and nurse, Barbara Karnes has seen the evolution of the hospice movement from the beginning and has seen what is working and what is...
Life Matters
After seeing "New Rule For End of Life Care" at the Awareness Festival, Joni Yung sought out Barbara Karnes, RN to be a guest on her Podcast to talk about...
Barbara Karnes, RN Talks about Reluctance to Refer and Pet Death
Barbara Karnes was one of our first guests on the podcast, and she returns as our very first guest to have a second interview. Barbara Karnes is a hospice pioneer...
The Process of Dying with Barbara Karnes
Barbara is an award-winning end of life educator and hospice nurse who has worked with thousands of people in their process of dying. She was named the NHPCO Hospice Innovator...
Gratitude Moment of the Day #5
This week we're celebrating our 2nd anniversary. As part of the celebration Helen and Jerry are sharing some of their gratitude moments each day this week.Today, Jerry offers his gratitude to...
Barbara Karnes, RN
Barbara Karnes talks about The Heart of Hospice.
Five for Friday, Barbara Karnes, Resources (BK Books)
At the Heart of Hospice we're always looking for great resources that help educate and encourage. One of the best websites for end of life education is bkbooks.com. BK Books...
Interview with Barbara Karnes, RN
A few weeks ago we had the privilege of having a conversation with Barbara Karnes, one of end of life care’s foremost authorities on death and dying. Barbara has devoted her...
New Rules for End of Life Care with Barbara Karnes, RN
My guest Barbara Karnes RN is a pioneer of the hospice movement who has been traveling the country since 1994 speaking about end-of-life issues. Her documentary film New Rules for End...
Conversation With Barbara Karnes-The Little Blue Book Lady!
In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson talks with Ms. Barbara Karnes, RN who authored the book "Gone From My Sights.
Talk With Barbara Karnes About Living & Dying Well
Barbara Karnes, RN, is an internationally respected speaker, educator, author and thought leader on matters of death and dying. She is a renowned authority to explain the dying process to...
"Knowledge Reduces Fear" Barbara Karnes, End of Life Educator & Nurse
Barbara Karnes, award-winning end of life educator and nurse, has been at the bedside of hundreds of people during the dying process. Throughout her career, she has recognized that each...
Matters of the Heart, Planning for Death: Part 1 of 2
While at the bedside of hundreds of people during the dying process, my guest Barbara Karnes, a Registered Nurse, noticed that each death was following a near identical script. Each...
Matters of the Heart, Planning for Death:“New Rules for End of Life Care,” Part 2 of 2
In part one of this interview we met Barbara Karnes who spent decades working as a Registered Nurse and was present for the deaths of hundreds of people. The observations...
The Dying Experience — Myths and Answers
All of us are going to die someday. And most of us will have loved ones who will die from disease or old age before we do. In fact, some...
USA Today End-of-Life Care campaign 2022 Article
In her book, “The Final Act of Living: Reflections of a Long-Time Hospice Nurse,” Karnes discusses advance directives and other topics that we should address before our final act of living.
Expert Advises Hospices How to Adapt to Social Distancing
We spent a few minutes with Ms. Karnes this week. Her compassion for hospice workers and grieving families comes through as she tells her story. Specifically, we wanted to know...
How Does Educating People About the Dying Process Reduce Fear?
Most people fear the act of dying more than they actually fear being dead. And there’s two ways to die. Fast, which is being hit by truck or some other...
Simply Dying: End-of-Life Expert Offers Comforting Advice
"How long?" Karnes says. "That is the most common question that (hospice workers) get from the family. What most don't understand is that there are dynamics to dying."
Pathways to Healing: Death Is a Process
“Caring for someone who is going live is different from caring for someone who is dying, but most people don’t know that,” Karnes says. “We want this person to get...
Do You Have 'The Little Blue Book' in Your House?
Most people working in the field of dying, death, and grieving know about "the little blue book," as it has come to be known. Many hospice and palliative care organizations...
Three things families need to know when a loved one is dying
It's a fact that no one wants to talk about dying. In our culture, death is viewed as the enemy to be fought at all costs. Yet, death is a...
Confessions of a Funeral Director: “This is How We Die”: A Morning with a Hospice Nurse
“No one dies alone” – Barbara said that all her years of experience have convinced her that we are ushered into the “other world” by the loved ones that have gone...
Expert Barbara Karnes, RN Speaks to Realities of Death
Karnes said when we find ourselves at the bedside of someone who is dying we are emotionally involved and do not really see what is happening. What is happening is...
"Let's Talk" with Barbara Karnes, RN
When someone we care about, or someone we don’t care about, is dying it is scary and challenging to our idea of how life is supposed to be. Other people...
Looking Back On the Perspective of My 16-Year-Old Self
When I was 16 years old, I was a nurse’s aide in a small hospital. In 1959, hospitals were more like nursing facilities are today; patients were often there for...
The Grief Process Following a Tragic Death
Sudden death by accident, suicide and certainly by violence intensifies those normal grief responses. Everything we feel with normal grief is as if we are being held under a magnifying...
Hospice Care: The Little Blue Book
What the little blue book gave me and countless others who’ve read it was not the power to defy death. That much is obvious. But it gave us the armor to deny...
5 Signs of Dying and What to Expect From Your Hospice
Hospice Blue Book:Gone From My Sight was written by award-winning nurse Barbara Karnes and is regarded as the gold standard in literature when it comes to end-of-life education. It comes in paperback and...
Regaining Trust In This Time of Social Distancing
During a time of minimized in-person connection and reduced eye contact, expressing our humanity builds a trust that is so needed right now.
Celebrating My Husband’s Birthday While Social Distancing
As much as we long for human contact, for social exchange other than phone or Zoom, it is not time yet. We are actually jeopardizing how quickly we can reconnect,...
The Precariousness of Life
One of the many lessons COVID-19 is teaching us is the precariousness of life. The need to do and say today, for tomorrow may be too late. Today is a...
Stories of the COVID Crisis
When someone we care about, or someone we don’t care about, is dying it is scary and challenging to our idea of how life is supposed to be. Other people...
Front Line Workers, Do You Have Self-Care Rituals?
Our healthcare workers on the frontline of this pandemic are facing challenges they didn’t sign up for when they chose to work in the medical arena. They didn’t expect to be...
Dying 101
Dying from the coronavirus is considered a gradual death (due to disease), but it can happen rapidly. There is a process that occurs with gradual death. Certain things happen at...
Washington Post: When unforeseen events force you to break promises to an ailing loved one
“We want to give loved ones who are sick or dying everything we think they want — but we can’t,” said Barbara Karnes, 78, an end-of-life educator and hospice nurse...
Hospice Expert Wants Home Health Nurses to Understand Hospice
If home health is involved in dying -- even when not the result of a clinically-driven decision -- they have to know how to take care of both patient and...
New York Times: The Gentler Symptoms of Dying
“Am I dying?” she asked.“We think so,” I said, touching her manicured fingernails. “I am here with you.” Later, she kept her eyes closed but opened them when we talked....
How Do You Let Go and Stop Feeling Guilty?
Guilt seems to come with loss. We burden ourselves with questions we can never answer, with “what if ” and “why didn’t I”. We repeatedly berate ourselves with “I should...
NPR: On Learning How To Die
Longtime hospice nurse Barbara Karnes, for instance, advises those approaching their deaths to not put things off until a day or hour when they are feeling better. Assume, she suggests,...
Education is 90% of Our Job Webinar for Nebraska
Taking care of someone at the end of life is different than taking care of someone who is going to get better. Most people don’t understand this and aren't familiar...
Hospice of Southern Maine
Hospice of Southern Maine Death Expert Barbara Karnes, RN Talks with Hospice of Southern Maine About Self Care During Covid-19 May 22, 2020 An on-line, live conversation with Barbara Karnes...
Update for "THE FINAL ACT OF LIVING, Reflections of a Long Time Hospice Nurse
Here is the updated version of my book "The Final Act of Living". I wrote a new preface, but the timeless material has stayed the same. This book is written...
Mom Is Dying and She Hasn't Eaten
There is a normal, natural way that people die. When a person begins reducing their food and water intake families can be alarmed. But this is normal. The body no...
Dad is dying. Give him fluids?
End of life expert, Barbara Karnes, RN speaks to the idea of hydration and dehydration with the dying...
"My mother has stopped eating. Why isn't the hospice staff making my mother eat?"
I was asked a question from a woman whose mother is on hospice care and I thought I would share my response. The question was "My mother has stopped eating....