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Penny Hawkins Smith

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Penny Smith, BSN, RN is a (US) nationally certified hospice and palliative care nurse with 20 years of experience. Penny has worked in a variety of care settings and roles within hospice including inpatient, home case management, education, quality and regulatory. She currently works as a hospice quality assurance nurse for an organization in Washington state.
Penny is a passionate advocate for hospice education with a mission to normalize the end-of-life process to remove the stigma and fear around hospice care, death and dying. During the pandemic she found her way to social media and discovered a unique way to utilize her death care expertise to provide education to a worldwide audience at a grassroots level. Using a variety of teaching s ...more

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My dad was in the Navy so I grew up on or near military bases … most of my time was spent in Oak Harbor near NAS Whidbey Island Washington. Although we were warned against hanging out with “squids” as we referred to them, sailors were just too plentiful to avoid. Especially after high school when our male peers all went off to college or to join the military themselves. Also, they had money to bur Read more of this blog post »

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Published on September 06, 2024 11:07 • Tags: navy, oak-harbor, party, sailors, whidbey-island, young-girls

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“the same compassion we hold for others can take a hell of a lot of practice to hold for ourselves.”
― Penny Hawkins Smith, RN, Influencing Death: Reframing Dying for Better Living

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