Peter Abraham

BSN, RN
Compassion Crossing, LLC
Peter

Peter Abraham

BSN, RN
Compassion Crossing, LLC
Advocate Location
Berea , KY 40403
Specialty
Special Care & Aging
Other Services
Medical Guidance
TeleAdvocacy Available
Offers FREE Initial Consultation
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How I Can Help
I work best with patients and families facing a serious illness, hospice or end-of-life care, or the daily work of caring for a loved one with dementia. In person within 50 miles of Berea, Kentucky (Madison County and the seven surrounding counties); telehealth is available nationwide. Here is exactly how I help:

• I will sit with you to build a values-based advance directive that goes beyond a generic form.
• I will attend your medical appointments with you in person if you live within 50 miles of Berea, Kentucky, and take notes and ask the questions you didn't think to ask. Outside that area, I'll prepare lists of questions and summaries so you get the same value from every appointment.
• I will review your full medication list, checking for interactions and duplicate therapies, and share what I find with your doctor and pharmacist.
• I will explain discharge papers, lab results, and treatment plans in plain, everyday language rather than clinical terms.
• I will research your diagnosis, treatment options, and questions to ask your doctor using reliable medical sources.
• I will help you coordinate among multiple specialists so information doesn't fall through the cracks.
• I will help you manage a move between a hospital, rehab, nursing home, or back home if you live within 50 miles of Berea, Kentucky. Outside that area, I'll help you prepare for the transition by phone or video.
• I will keep your family members updated on your care so everyone stays informed and on the same page.
• I will offer ongoing coaching calls so you have someone to talk through decisions with as they come up.
• I will help you locate local resources, including transportation, meal programs, home health services, and financial assistance.
Important Information About Me
  • I offer a FREE Initial Consultation
  • I offer TeleAdvocacy Service
  • I am insured
  • My geographical area of practice is Central Kentucky
Why I Became A Professional Health Care Advocate
I grew up with very little money and lost people close to me more times than I can count. Those losses were not blessings at the time, but I can see now how they shaped me. My faith in Christ carried me through the darkest of those years, and it left me with a deep love for people walking through what I once walked through. That is why I became a hospice nurse, and later, a health navigator and advocate. Whether I'm helping someone prepare for a doctor's visit, sitting with them through a hospice admission, guiding them through a values-based advance directive, or walking beside a family caring for a loved one with dementia, I want to be the person who makes sure they never face it alone.
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Formal Education
Capella University, Bachelor of Science in Nursing. 2018.
Harrisburg Area Community College, Associate in Nursing Science. 2016.
Faith Experience
  • Catholicism
  • Christianity
  • Protestantism
Additional Skills
Advance Care Planning
• Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
• Healthcare Surrogate Designation
• Living Will Completion
• POLST/MOST Forms
• Values-Based Directive Completion (beyond the standard four yes/no questions)

Cancer (major malignancies that commonly lead to hospice when untreated)
• Bladder Cancer
• Brain Cancer (Glioblastoma)
• Breast Cancer
• Colorectal Cancer
• Esophageal Cancer
• Kidney (Renal Cell) Cancer
• Leukemia
• Liver Cancer (Hepatocellular)
• Lung Cancer
• Lymphoma
• Multiple Myeloma
• Ovarian Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer
• Prostate Cancer
• Stomach (Gastric) Cancer

Dementia
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
• Dementia Care Coaching and Guidance
• Dementia Staging (FAST Scale)
• Frontotemporal Dementia
• Huntington's Disease
• Korsakoff Dementia
• Lewy Body Dementia
• Limbic-Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy (LATE)
• Logopenic Primary Progressive Aphasia
• Mixed Dementia
• Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)
• Parkinson's Dementia
• Vascular Dementia

End-of-Life Care Decisions
• Hospice Care Eligibility and Timing
• Palliative Care vs. Hospice Care Decision Support

Grief and Loss
• Ambiguous Loss
• Anticipatory Grief
• Complicated Grief
• Disenfranchised Grief
• Traditional Grief

Hospice Care
• Admissions
• Benefits
• Continuous Home Care
• Eligibility
• General Inpatient Care
• Patient Rights in Hospice
• Power of Attorney Rights in Hospice
• Respite Care
• Routine Home Care

Legacy Planning
• Ethical Wills
• Video and Audio Legacy Messages

Medication Review and Reconciliation
• BEERS Criteria Application
• Deprescribing Conversation Facilitation
• Polypharmacy Review
• STOPP/START Method
• STOPPFrail Application

Motivational Interviewing and Health Coaching
• Behavior Change Coaching for Long-Term Health Goals
• Trauma-Informed Communication
• Validation Therapy (for Dementia Communication)

Palliative Sedation
• Continuous Palliative Sedation
• Intermittent Palliative Sedation

Vigil Planning and Support
• Room Environment and Comfort Planning
• Vigil Sitting (Respite for Family Caregivers)
• Visitor Scheduling

VSED (Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking)
• Non-Terminal VSED Support
• Terminal VSED Support

Wellness Checks
• Home Safety Assessment
• In-Home Skilled Monitoring
Professional Affiliations
I'm trained in trauma-informed care, validation therapy, and motivational interviewing. I use validated tools like the BEERS Criteria, STOPPFrail, and STOPP/START to assess medication safety. I understand how the healthcare system works, including how insurance shapes treatment decisions, and I work independently of insurance companies, focusing solely on you.

Nurses, caregivers, and families caring for individuals with serious illness often lacked accessible, clinically sound reference materials. To address this, I authored and published more than 60 evidence-informed books and practical guides that helped reduce stress, enhance understanding, and strengthen caregiving capacity in hospice, palliative, and community settings. Marie Peppers' Chronic Care Management (CCM) certification courses require students to use my book, The Nurse's Guide to Motivational Interviewing: Empowering Patients to Make Lasting Health Changes. Argenx recently adopted this book to help improve patient outcomes for its remote nurse case managers supporting gMG and CIDP patients. Hospice agencies nationwide use several of my titles for orientation and training.

I'm a Registered Nurse volunteer with the Kentucky Medical Reserve Corps.