Caring For The Smallest Souls: What They Don’t Teach You About Pediatric Hospice Nursing($14.99Value)

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Caring for the Smallest Souls: What They Don’t Teach You About Pediatric Hospice Nursing is a compassionate and honest guide for nurses caring for children and families through serious illness, grief, and end-of-life care. Blending real-world experience with practical insight, Kari Long, RN, CHPN, CHPPN, explores the emotional and clinical realities of pediatric hospice nursing in a way few textbooks ever do. This book goes beyond symptom management and medical care to address the parts of the work many nurses quietly carry: the fear of saying the wrong thing, the weight of difficult losses, the challenge of supporting grieving parents, and the emotional impact of caring deeply for children facing life-limiting illness. Through reflective storytelling, practical guidance, and heartfelt honesty, this book offers support for: New nurses entering pediatric hospice or palliative care - Hospice and pediatric healthcare professionals - Nurses learning how to navigate grief while continuing to show up for families - Anyone seeking a more human understanding of pediatric end-of-life care Inside these pages, readers will find guidance on: Walking into difficult conversations with honesty and compassion - Supporting parents and siblings through anticipatory grief - Understanding symptom changes in children at end of life - Navigating feeding changes, pain management, and comfort-focused care - Learning how to stay emotionally present without losing yourself in the work - Finding meaning, connection, and humanity inside some of life’s hardest moments This is not a textbook filled with perfect answers. It is a book about presence. About honesty. About learning how to care for children and families through the unimaginable—while remaining human inside of the work yourself. For the nurses who have carried this work quietly for years… and for the ones just beginning. You do not have to carry this work alone.