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  • Hospice nurses as "midwives to the dying" : guiding life's important journeys

    Creator:
    Cox, Jessica C.
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores the metaphor of hospice nurses as "midwives to the dying" by applying philosophical inquiry to the field of hospice. I focus on the history of the movements, their professional approaches to caregiving, and the core commitments of both the modern midwifery and hospice movements. Although focused on...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Metaphor, 4. 8 conversation-stoppers. Medical ethicist Edmund L. Erde contends that the phrase