?It is not how much you do but how much love you put in the doing.? ? Mother Theresa
Hospice care provides medical services, as well as emotional and spiritual support for people who are in the last stages of a grave illness, such as cancer or Alzheimer?s disease. It also allows advanced aged seniors the opportunity to live out their last days at home. Hospice care also helps family members manage the practical challenges of caring for a dying loved one.
The general goal of hospice treatment is to keep patients comfortable and cared for during their last days, weeks or months of life. Hospice services are not intended to speed up or prolong the dying process. Instead, they focus on relieving pain and providing much needed peace for the patient and family.
Rhonda Heatherly of Sevierville was born on January 31, 1980 in La Follette, TN. Youngest of her parents? eight children, Rhonda always wanted to be a nurse. Nursing is God?s work and there was never a second choice of profession for young Heatherly.
Before graduating from Campbell County High School in 2000, Rhonda, an ROTC student had already begun her nursing career. While participating in the nursing program her school offered, she also worked at several of the nursing homes in her area.
After two years studying nursing at the University of Tennessee, Rhonda entered Lincoln Memorial University and ultimately earned her Master?s Degree in nursing in 2007.
Rhonda Heatherly has been a nurse for fifteen years now, but six years ago she made a decision to provide full time hospice care. This was not an easy decision, as helping people get well can be considered by most to be far more rewarding than taking a job where the survival rate of your patients is extremely close to zero. However, it is a job that must be done and she felt she was the right person to do it.
Obviously, the worse part of her job is saying goodbye. After nearly 50 hospice patients ranging in age 29-96 years, she has served them until their passing if it was one day or three months. Heatherly insists that to be effective, ?time, patience and heart are required.?
Rhonda currently works for Home Instead Senior Care. Home Instead is a network of locally owned franchise offices with ?a passionate desire to help your family keep your aging mother, father, grandparents or friends in their home as they grow older.?
Hospice services typically include basic medical care with a focus on pain and symptom control, while providing medical supplies and equipment, as well as guidance with the difficult, but normal issues associated with the end of a precious life.
The world will soon have over one hundred million people over the age of 65. Rhonda Heatherly and those special few like her will help many of those folks by providing home care services to those who need it. They are certainly Angels sent from Heaven to care not only for their patients, but their heartbroken families as well.
We all begin dying at the moment of birth. Still, most of us live in denial of Death?s patient pursuit until late in life or until we are overcome by sickness, injury or war. Only then, we become aware of life?s certain brevity.
Henry Piarrot is the Vice President of Operations for Mountain Fresh Hospitality Services in Sevierville. Please send all story recommendations to hpiarrot@yahoo.com
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Source: http://www.hometownsevier.com/life-is-voluntary/2013/01/23/gods-work/
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