| Maggie Callanan, RN, CRNH | | Print | |
 Maggie Callanan, RN, CRNH Lewes, DE While providing hospice care, Maggie Callanan and co-worker Patricia Kelley documented recurring behaviors they witnessed in their patients. From these observations, they formulated their theory of Nearing Death Awareness (NDA) and presented it in their 1992 book, Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications with the Dying. Ms. Callanan will deliver one of the Segment 2 keynote addresses on the topic of "Nearing Death Awareness in Palliative and End-of-Life Care." For most of the past two decades, since the early years of the hospice movement in her area, Ms. Callanan has provided hospice care for patients and families in northern Virginia and Delaware. In its year of publication, Final Gifts won the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, and Ms. Callanan won the National Hospice Organization "Heart of HospIce" for the Clinician of the Year 1995-1996. Since the publication of Final Gifts, Ms. Callanan has devoted much of her professional life to speaking, consulting and writing. For the past two years, she has been preparing another book on death and dying due to be published by Bantam in Spring/Summer, 2007. |
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