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End of Life Issues - Palliative Care
Deanna Cochran, RN is the founder of Quality of Life Care, home of The Quality of Life Care Project. Her focus is on life-limiting illness from diagnosis through death, as well as elder care, caregiver and end-of-life concerns.
Deanna began nursing in 2000 and has spent her career in caring for people and their families during the end-of-life in a variety of settings within and outside of hospice. With hospice she has been a case manager for families and part of the after-hours, crisis-care, on call team. She worked in the admissions department and in the hospice acute care facility. She's been an RN supervisor for a local skilled nursing unit and nursing home within a busy assisted living and nursing home facility and has served people and their families in the long-term, acute care setting, caring for people with chronic, debilitating end-stage illnesses.
Her experience bridges the gap between someone with life-limiting illness and not hospice appropriate to caring for those as they die. Her practice bridges the time between diagnoses (where there is much support) to hospice care (a service most do not use until the last 2 weeks of life). There is a huge gap in between where information and resources are needed so that informed decisions can be made--based on a person's own values.
She serves through family discussions to evaluate present circumstances, discuss options and develop a plan; hospital to home assistance until the family feels settled; and she has a special service called 'Transition Care.' This is presence with a family during the time surrounding the death of a loved one. She consults professionally with organizations in program development and in collaborative efforts. You can visit Deana Cochran's website at www.QualityofLifeCare.com
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