Peace at Last: Stories of Hope and Healing for Veterans and Their Families
Deborah Grassman is a Nurse Practitioner at Bay Pines VA Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has been with the VA for 25 years and has been the Director of the Hospice Program at the VA for the last 14 years. She has been a featured speaker at Hospice conferences throughout the United States and has published articles on providing Hospice care to veterans in numerous professional journals. She pioneered identifying the effects of past trauma on the quality of a person s dying process, as well as ways to effectively respond to issues that surface at the end of life. She has a B.S. in Nursing and an M.S. in Psych-Mental Health Nursing from the University of South Florida.