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End of Life Expert, Barbara Karnes, RN speaks to the idea of hydration with the dying...

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?" a video blog by end of life expert, Barbara Karnes, Rn

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....

Palliative Care in Rural Areas, Healing Power of Grief with Barbara Karnes

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 ...

Nina Impala from Voice of America interviews End of Life Expert Barbara Karnes, RN author of Gone From My Sight

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, Healing Power of Grief with Barbara Karnes, RN

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...

The Rowan Report: 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? An Interview With Barbara Karnes, Nurse, Author, and End-of-Life Educator, Part One by Colleen Ferguson of SevenPonds

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...

The Globe: by April Knutson / Forum News Service Simply dying: End-of-life expert, Barbara Karnes, RN 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."

End of Life Expert, Barbara Karnes, RN explains that 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? article on HuffPost from Barbara Karnes, RN

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...

End of Life Expert, Barbara Karnes, RN gives 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...

THIS IS HOW WE DIE: A Morning With A Hospice Nurse, End of Life Expert, Barbara Karnes, RN

“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...

Sahuarita Sun: Ellen Sussman interviews End of Life 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...

In her Thrive Global article, Hospice Pioneer, Barbara Karnes, RN writes about how she came to care for the dying

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 Journal of Health Design interviews Barbara Karnes, RN

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...

Thrive Global Article, The Grief Process Following A Tragic Death by Barbara Karnes, RN

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...

Dear Life with Christina Rasmussen EP54: Barbara Karnes, RN

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,...

Education is 90% of Our Job- Webinar by Dying Expert, Barbara Karnes, RN for Nebraska State Hospice Association

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...

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