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June 14, 2004 Volume 13 No. 12

Staying on TRAC
Nursing research center brings growth and improves care.

Our “forever young” mentality in the United States doesn’t generally equate death with growth. But dying can be a powerful spiritual process leading to deeper wisdom and a sense of satisfaction and closure at the end of life, according to Elizabeth Clipp, RN, PhD, director of Duke University School of Nursing’s TRAC Center.

Whether growth occurs at the end of life depends, to a large extent, on the way care at the end of life is...

Leaders of Duke School of Nursing’s Trajectories of Aging and Care (TRAC) Center are (from left): Elizabeth Clipp, RN, PhD, director; Ruth Anderson, RN, PhD, Pilot/Feasibility Core director; and Eleanor McConnell, RN, PhD, Administrative Core director.

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	A Channel for Communication Wanted: Someone who is transparent yet present, impersonal yet caring, inquisitive yet discrete, and without question bilingual (and in many cases happens to be trilingual). Needs ability to work independently, constantly meet new people, be cultu Those are just some of the traits and skills required from the 12 medical interpreters (plus 11...
	Taking Treatment to the People Duke Oncology Network offers Duke clinical and research expertise throughout the Southeast Ten years ago, people diagnosed with cancer who lived in many rural areas of North Carolina had...