Steven Burokas, DNP, MS, AGPCNP, RN, is Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, Notre Dame Health Care, Worcester, MA.

Susan Parker, DNP, APRN, GNP-BC, ACHPN, is a professor, Solomont School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Cherie Sirard, BSN, RN, is research assistant and Director of Regulatory Compliance & Staff Development, Notre Dame Health Care, Worcester, MA.

Address correspondence to Steven Burokas, DNP, AGPCNP, RN, 400 West Main Street, Millbury, MA ([email protected]).

The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.