Barbara Karnes, RN
Barbara Karnes, RN, is an award winning hospice nurse and nationally prominent speaker on the dynamics of dying. As the author of Gone From My Sight, which for 25 years has been the primary source booklet in the end of life arena, her work has been instrumental in creating the most important educational tool in the Hospice movement today. Her other booklets are “My Friend I Care,” “A Time To Live.” and “The Eleventh Hour”. Her book, The Final Act of Living, is an end of life resource that offers knowledge to ease fear and misinformation about dying and death. Barbara’s 40 year career as an end-of-life educator is predicated on her experience at the bedside of hundreds of people in the months to weeks to minutes before death as well as being involved in the care of thousands of terminally ill people. Her career path began as a Hospice volunteer and progressed to include staff nurse, clinical director, patient care manger and executive director of hospice and home health care agencies.
