Summary of The In-Between by Hadley Vlahos R.N.: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments

By Justin Reese

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Summary of The In-Between by Hadley Vlahos R.N.: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments

 

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Hadley Vlahos, a hospice nurse and TikTok star, shares her memoir, The In-Between, which dispels fear around death and dying. The book, written with profound insight, humility, and respect, shows how caring for others can transform a life, offer wisdom and comfort for those dealing with loss, and provide inspiration for how to live now. Vlahos' experiences with patients, including those who never questioned their faith until near death, demonstrate the power of end-of-life care to teach us about life and death.

• Language: English
• Publisher: jUSTIN REESE
• Release date: Jun 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223133490

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Glenda

The narrator is a young single mom living in Niceville, Florida, and has just enough time to finish getting both of them ready and fed. She is called by her manager Kristin to come with her to a patient's home in a nice part of town, minutes from the beaches of Destin, Florida. The narrator is at least 30 minutes away and needs to drop off her son at daycare, so she decides to forgo breakfast and put the eggs back in the fridge. Kristin agrees and the narrator rushes to the office. The narrator is a hospice nurse in the process of training.

They are driving to a patient's home in Coral Cove, Florida, where Kristin, a senior nurse, is waiting for them. The narrator feels insecure in their wet bun and bare face, but Kristin assures them that attending a patient's death is inevitable. The narrator and Kristin have a long relationship, and the narrator is grateful for Kristin's support. Kristin and Hadley visit a frazzled red-haired woman in her forties who is talking to her sister, who passed before Maria was born. Kristin and Hadley take a look at the patient's bedroom, which has a heavy wooden dresser and nightstands, and a small table next to the dresser, piled high with books.

The patient's daughter, Maria, tells Kristin that her mother is out of her mind and needs medication to make her sleep. Kristin and Hadley take a look at the patient's bedroom, which has a heavy wooden dresser and nightstands, and a small table next to the dresser, piled high with books. Ms. Glenda and Kristin were introduced to Ms. Glenda's sister, Maria, by Kristin and one of her newer nurses, Hadley. Kristin took Ms. Glenda's vital signs and declared her numbers perfect, while Maria was left alone. Kristin returned to the room with Maria and started laying out the game plan to help Maria cope with her mother's death.

Kristin was unbothered by the fact that they had just been introduced to an invisible, deceased sister. Ms. Glenda is in hospice, where a nurse stays at the home round-the-clock until the patient's symptoms are more manageable or the nurse is no longer needed. Kristin, a hospice nurse, initiates continuous care, where a nurse remains at the home round-the-clock until the patient's symptoms are more manageable or the nurse is no longer needed. Ms. Glenda is hallucinating heavily, but Kristin explains that she is crossing over and seeing her deceased sister. The nurse nods her head like she understands, but it feels foreign not to be doing something to alleviate symptoms in a quiet and calm environment.

The narrator was in a hospital setting where death was usually a quick, traumatic occurrence, with up to fifteen people in a single room doing CPR, pushing medications, ventilating, and monitoring the patient for return of a pulse. The narrator returned to Ms. Glenda's home and asked if they could sit next to her. After a few minutes of silence, the narrator began reading their company's employee handbook on their tablet. Twenty minutes later, Ms. Glenda turned her attention to the narrator and asked if they thought she was crazy. The narrator replied, No, not at all! Ms. Glenda paused and readjusted herself in her bed before continuing, I'm not crazy. My sister is standing right next to you. The narrator nodded their head in response.

The most important details in this text are the differences between home health and hospice care. Home health patients are in their homes at the time of treatment, while hospice patients are not dying. The author began to understand hospice care during their previous job as a manager at a nursing home, where they saw hospice nurses sitting by their patients' bedsides, having a chat with them, and sharing their plans. The hospice nurses were able to focus on their patients in a way that the author wasn't able to, which appealed to the author. The most important details in this text are that the narrator saw hospice nurses asking patients how they could make their quality of life better in the time they had left, and that the narrator eventually landed a job with a hospice company.

The narrator was greeted by a concerned-looking

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[Carol · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This was a jumbled word salad. Too confusing to follow.