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Woolf to address end-of-life nursing

KOKOMO, Ind.—Expert in bioethics Shirley Woolf, C.C.R.N., C.N.R.N., will outline ways that nurses can provide compassionate and holistic end-of-life care, during a March 26 luncheon at Indiana University Kokomo.

Borrowing themes from the children’s book Charlotte’s Web, Woolf will speak on “The Web of Caring” that can be created during end of life care. She will describe a faith-centered relational approach to such care and offer ideas on practical nursing interventions to support a dying patient.

The event is sponsored by the student organization Nurses Christian Fellowship, with partial funding by the Office of Student Activities.

The lunch and Woolf’s talk will run 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. in Kelley Student Center, Room 130B. Tickets are $10 for community and faculty members, and $5 for IU Kokomo students. A clinical assistant professor of nursing at IUPUI, Shirley Woolf has more than 30 years of clinical experience in cardiovascular, neuroscience and critical care nursing. She holds masters’ degrees in bioethics and nursing and has received presenter training through the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium.

Registration deadline for the luncheon is March 12. Checks or money orders should be made payable to IU Kokomo. Send payment and contact information, including mailing address, to the IU Kokomo Office of Student Activities, P.O. Box 9003, Kokomo, IN 46904-9003.