The nurse who helps dying patients write poetry

01/26/24 at 04:00 AM

The nurse who helps dying patients write poetry
The Telegraph (UK News), by Flora Bowen; 1/25/24
What will happen to me after I die? Will my family cope? How will I be remembered? These are familiar questions for Rekha Vijayshankar. As a palliative care nurse who is now Marie Curie’s deputy head of quality and clinical governance, she has helped thousands of patients to explore their feelings towards such themes through writing poetry and journal entries together.

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