Learning about Hospice from The Nurse with the Purple Hair

The Dr. Raj Podcast Dr Raj is a quadruple board certified physician
and associate professor at the University of Southern California.
He was a co-host on the TNT series Chasing the Cure with Ann Curry,
a regular on the TV Show The Doctors for the past 7 seasons and has
a weekly medical segment on ABC news Los Angeles.   Today’s
Guest In 2004, Michelle was working as a surgical nurse at
Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, when her father died
unexpectedly. Michelle returned home to Philadelphia and
switched to hospice nursing.  Michelle explains: "It was a
personal healing journey. For me, everything that I didn't get
to do for my dad I was now doing for all of these other
people. So it was really important to me." Michelle serves as
a level 3 RN on her hospice unit, and as a preceptor to nursing
students and advisor to newly hired employees. During her 13
years as a Hospice nurse Michelle has received many awards, but her
favorite is the UPHS Nursing Excellence Award in reconigtion of
Nurse/Patient-Family Relationships (2010). Michelle makes her home
in Philadelphia where she raises two little boys. Keep up with
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