Nurse Practitioner Presents in Amsterdam

On April 1, 2004, Carol Flavell, NP, spoke at the European Society of Cardiovascular Nurses Conference in Amsterdam. Presenting to an audience made up of nurses from all over Western Europe, Flavell discussed current literature on end-of-life care for patients with heart failure. She addressed how heart failure patient needs differ from the hospice model of cancer patients, and proposed that hospice/palliative care nurses team up with cardiovascular nurses to best attend to heart failure patients nearing the end of life. Said Flavell: “We have the privilege to escort patients and families over the thin places—we must learn to do it well.”