Deborah LaFond

Historia

Dr. Deborah Lafond is the Chief Executive Officer of PANDA Education Consultants, PLLC and was formerly the Clinical Director of the PANDA Palliative Care Team at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. She retired from her clinical practice with Children’s National in May 2020. She received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from the University of Maryland, a Masters in Nursing from the University of Hawaii, and her Bachelor’s in Nursing from the University of Maryland. Dr. Lafond has a background in pediatric oncology advanced practice nursing, most specifically neuro-oncology for 22 years. Dr. Lafond is a Sojourns Scholar in pediatric palliative care and presented on models of primary pediatric palliative care delivery at the National Academies of Science, Medicine, and Engineering. She is a national ELNEC trainer and a trainer for EPEC-Pediatric. Her interest of research is in primary pediatric palliative care and integrating these precepts into oncology practice.

Películas

Defining Hope
Defining Hope
Self - Nurse
We aren't dying the way we used to. We have ventilators, dialysis machines, ICUs-technologies that can "fix" us and keep our bodies alive-which have radically changed how we make medical decisions. In our death-denying culture, no matter how sick we get, there is always "hope." Defining Hope tells the story of patients dealing with life-threatening illness as they move between ICUs, operating rooms, hospice care and home. Diane is a nurse caring for end-stage cancer patients when she is diagnosed with ovarian cancer herself. 23-year-old Alena undergoes a risky brain surgery that destroys her short-term memory. 95-year-old Berthold lives with his elderly wife who struggles to honor his wish of dying peacefully at home. Defining Hope follows these patients and others- and the nurses that guide them along the way- as they face death, embrace hope, and ultimately redefine what makes life worth living.