Karen Lourence MS, RN, PCCN and Barbara Madden Ed.D, RN will discuss the Massachusetts Health Care Proxy form, including the Roman Catholic Health Care Proxy. They will also answer your questions about other advance directives for health care. 

Karen and Barbara are from Sacred Heart Parish and are members of the choir and other ministries of the parish. Karen has been a nurse for over 35 years and is currently a staff nurse on a general medicine inpatient unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Barbara has been a nurse for over 55 years, mainly as a nurse educator, and more recently as inpatient surgical unit staff at Newton Wellesley Hospital and as a sexual assault nurse for the Department of Public Health. In June 2019, they completed Archdiocesan training in Foundations of Faith Community Nursing.