Suzanne O'Brien
Suzanne O'Brien is a hospice nurse and advocate, end of life educator, motivational speaker and author of Life, Love and Transition: Guidance for the End of Life (2012) - a guide to achieving a dignified, meaningful death through the hospice experience. Suzanne resides in New York's Hudson Valley, where she has been a registered nurse and hospice nurse for over 15 years.
Suzanne is sharing this platform nationwide as a motivational speaker providing insight and understanding about how families can plan for end of life care and death with clarity and dignity.
INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION/CREDENTIALS: A HOLISTIC APPROACH
Suzanne's training in medical, spiritual and alternative healing led her to her current role as hospice nurse and advocate.
- Degree in Transpersonal Counseling and Spiritual Ministry: University for Integrative Learning
at the Association for the Integration of the Whole Person (AIWP), in Los Alamitos, CA
- Certified Reiki Practitioner, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
- Registered Nurse, Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY
- Acute Oncology Nurse, Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
- Hospice Nurse and Advocate, Hospice Inc., Dutchess & Ulster Counties, NY
Suzanne uses her training and deep knowledge of the hospice approach to help patients and families make the transition from life to death through the final months, weeks or days, ensuring their physical, emotional and spiritual needs are being met.
The lessons Suzanne has learned at the bedsides of dying patients have taught her that our duty to the dying is to care for them holistically at the end of life: They must feel comfortable, pain free and dignified. Having an honest conversation about death, with the dying person and their family, is integral to her philosophy.
Suzanne O'Brien is a hospice nurse and advocate, end of life educator, motivational speaker and author of Life, Love and Transition: Guidance for the End of Life (2012) - a guide to achieving a dignified, meaningful death through the hospice experience. Suzanne resides in New York's Hudson Valley, where she has been a registered nurse and hospice nurse for over 15 years.
Suzanne is sharing this platform nationwide as a motivational speaker providing insight and understanding about how families can plan for end of life care and death with clarity and dignity.
INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION/CREDENTIALS: A HOLISTIC APPROACH
Suzanne's training in medical, spiritual and alternative healing led her to her current role as hospice nurse and advocate.
- Degree in Transpersonal Counseling and Spiritual Ministry: University for Integrative Learning
at the Association for the Integration of the Whole Person (AIWP), in Los Alamitos, CA
- Certified Reiki Practitioner, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
- Registered Nurse, Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY
- Acute Oncology Nurse, Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
- Hospice Nurse and Advocate, Hospice Inc., Dutchess & Ulster Counties, NY
Suzanne uses her training and deep knowledge of the hospice approach to help patients and families make the transition from life to death through the final months, weeks or days, ensuring their physical, emotional and spiritual needs are being met.
The lessons Suzanne has learned at the bedsides of dying patients have taught her that our duty to the dying is to care for them holistically at the end of life: They must feel comfortable, pain free and dignified. Having an honest conversation about death, with the dying person and their family, is integral to her philosophy.
