Instructors Guide For Teaching Essentials In Hospice Palliative Care To Health Care Workers

This Instructor's Guide for Teaching Essentials in Hospice Palliative Care to Health Care Workers provides a comprehensive, fully indexed teaching guide with lesson plans and detailed instructions for both instructor and student participation and identification of which resources to use for teaching each topic.

The Instructor's Guide is written specifically for the individuals who are teaching classes and workshops on how to care for the dying. The guide provides you with a template of strategies and options for teaching, based on the text and companion resources of Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Resource for Nursing Assistants. A matching section in the Instructor's Guide provides step by step support for teaching each chapter from the text. The guide provides learning outcomes, preparation for students and Instructors, as well as suggested Lesson Plans. Each Lesson Plan identifies relevant Powerpoint presentations Text readings Workbook questions for addressing specific concepts Podcasts, for in-class or at home use Videos, for in-class or at home use Activites for exploring and integrating concepts Experienced as well as new instructors will benefit from the way the Instructor's Guide simplifies your teaching preparation, and enhances your teaching impact."

A companion workbook for the Essentials resource manual, designed to enhance learning and integration of knowledge in the field of hospice palliative care. Written for the health care worker or generalist caregiver, to provide competency based skills in excellent end of life care. Workbook activities for each topic are applied through three central themes: * Beliefs and Baggage - encourages learners to explore their own understanding of topics by teaching and implementing guided reflective writing. * Content and Concepts - lays the foundation of understanding, requiring participants to begin integrating knowledge through definitions, calculations and short answer questions. * Integration and Application - completes the learning on each topic, applying knowledge through further research, case studies, role play and small and large group discussions.

"My goal in developing this instructor's guide was to assist instructors (you) in delivering excellent education, and decrease the preparation time required to teach the content. The instructor's guide is a resource that provides strategies for teaching this content and links to the relevant content in each of the related resources. This guide is intended to help you do what you already do well and to help make the adjustment to teaching new content a bit easier for you."--

"This is a guide to help instructors teach the materials found in "Integrating A Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers" to students."--

"A must-have for all levels of palliative caregivers " An excellent resource for palliative caregivers - including family, community health workers, resident care assistants, nurses and anyone else wanting a solid foundation in this important area. The Essentials manual engages readers with warmth and heart. It provides caregivers with the necessary resources and tools to understand key issues in the dying process. "Essentials" extends our understanding of how to provide excellent care for the dying, by teaching strategies to: * Enhance comfort through palliation and simple comfort measures. * Be "up close and personal" with the dying. * Deal with the psychosocial implications of physical changes in last days and hours. * Develop supportive strategies for both patients and "family." * Engage with the challenge of "being with" instead of "doing for." * Enhance your understanding of the nature of grief. * Strengthen communication skills and avoid common roadblocks. * Support children who are living with dying by understanding the essential principles of how to talk about death with kids, what to say, and when to say it. * Care for yourself by applying a strength based model of self care.

"This workbook was created specifically for nursing assistants--you. As a companion workbook to Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Resource for Nursing assistants, this study guide will help you solidify your knowledge of hospice palliative care. The workbook is filled with creative learning activities, including crossword puzzles, -reflective writing, group discussion, and role-plays. Prepare yourself to care for the dying and their family by: Exploring your own beliefs and biases through re-flection and writing exercises Increasing your understanding of hospice palliative care language, principles, and practices Applying your knowledge in case scenarios, role-plays, and group discussion."--

Kath Murray has a love for hospice and palliative care and a love for education that is engaging, delicious, and digestible. Her passion is to provide exceptional resources to help nurses, health care workers, and personal support workers provide excellent care for the dying and their family, and to find meaning and value in doing so.

Education of healthcare professionals is the cornerstone of specialist palliative services. This book is a practical toolbox of teaching techniques. Accessible, practical and easy to use it will encourage busy clinicians to teach by increasing their confidence in their training abilities. It provides a resource of various tools and describes how to approach teaching in a team, planning, methods and evaluation. Each chapter presents a menu of tried and tested techniques and closes with examples of lesson plans. The multidisciplinary experiences of the contributors are reflected in the book and healthcare professionals working in palliative care, hospitals, hospices or the community will find it to be essential reading.

Offers a comprehensive overview of the practice of hospice, as well as the challenges faced by and the direction of the hospice movement. This book provides chapters that address key topics such as the goals and importance of community involvement, outcome measurement, and the manner in which hospices address death, grief, and bereavement.