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Reinette Powers Murray is Assistant Professor of Nursing at LSSU in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan where she currently teaches Adult-Health Medical-Surgical Nursing. Reinette also serves on the Chippewa County Hospice Board. She served previously as an adjunct teaching staff member at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan. Her current scholarly interests include the patients' spiritual care and end-of-life dying process. Her field study-thesis project was a comparative descriptive study comparing RN’s from the Oncology and Intensive Care units, titled: Spiritual Care Beliefs and Practices of the RN at the Patients’ End-of-Life. The study addressed the RN’s daily spiritual care assessment practices in meeting patients’ needs and concerns for quality of life during the dying process. Reinette began her career with an Associates degree in Nursing from Schoolcraft Community College in Livonia, MI, a Bachelors of Applied Science/Health Care Administration, Sienna Heights University in Adrian, Michigan and an MSN-Adult Health with a teaching certificate in Nursing Education from Eastern Michigan University. She has over 14 years of experience as an Emergency Room RN, including two years as a hospital Nurse Educator. During the MSN program, her area of interest and expertise changed from cardiac medicine to End-of-Life/Hospice. Internships, coupled with Debra Dunn, GNP, RN, and a faculty member at Madonna University focused on care of the elderly and palliative care for the dying patient with rotations at various long-term care facilities in the metro Detroit area. Final internships focused on Hospice Care at Arbor Hospice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. During this time her father was diagnosed with lung cancer, bringing new meaning and a very personal perspective of the end-of-life/hospice practice for a quality death experience. The three years of the MSN degree process culminated in the development of The Peaceful Journey—End-of-Life Process program and a refined hospice admission criteria policy for dementia patients. Research in the areas of end-of-life process for a quality death experience continues to be an area of interest for Reinette. Read what some of her professional associates have written about Reinette. End-of-Life Professional Activities
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