Kelly’s Blog
Kelly’s Blog is a collection of veteran Community Palliative Care Nurse Kelly King’s thoughts and experience after a decade on the road and at the ‘coal face’ delivering Little Havens Community Based Palliative Care Model.
Beyond Medicine: The Impact of Palliative Care on End-of-Life
Let me tell you a story that illustrates how a holistic view of a patient’s mind, body, and soul can positively impact their end-of-life story. We had a patient with advanced end-stage renal failure.
Read morePeople often ask “How do you do what you do?”
People often ask us “How do you do what you do?” “Why? It must be awful seeing death every day….” I accept that we are a unique band of nurses, its true. We’re deep emotional creatures. Armed with a common thread of quirky humour and an extensive clinical knowledge of our field.
Read moreWelcome to Kelly’s Blog
March 2024 marks 10 years since Little Haven Palliative Care and Cancer Support took a chance on me and I began a career in Palliative Care. I knew within months that I had found my nursing niche.
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