Hospice Education Program For Nurses Facilitator Manual

The Facilitator’s Guide for Population-Based Public Health Clinical Manual: The Henry Street Model for Nurses, 4th Edition, is designed to be an aid for planning and providing classroom and community learning experiences for nursing faculty using the manual. It is also a resource for clinical coordinators in practice settings to collaborate with their academic partners to foster learning and critical thinking and for practicing public health nursing for student nurses. Both novice and experienced facilitators will find useful information and resources in this Facilitator’s Guide. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Unit 1: Using the Manual for Teaching and Learning Unit 2: Resources for Academic-Practice Community Partnerships Unit 3: Henry Street Consortium Toolkit for Academic-Practice Community Partnerships Unit 4: Chapter and Appendices Resources Unit 5: References ABOUT THE AUTHORS Patricia M. Schoon, DNP, MPH, RN, PHN, is a tenured Associate Professor at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a founding member of the Henry Street Consortium and has taught nursing and public health for almost 50 years. Carolyn M. Porta, PhD, MPH, RN, PHN, SANE-A, FAAN, FNAP, is an Associate Vice President for Clinical Affairs at the University of Minnesota and a tenured Professor in the School of Nursing. She holds adjunct faculty appointments in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, the Kaohsiung Medical University School of Nursing, and the Manipal Academy of Higher Education School of Nursing.

For over a decade, a thousand hospice programs have relied on JoAnne Chitwood's My Gift: Myself Medicare approved training program to educate staff and volunteers in providing professional, compassionate care for the terminally ill patient. Now, the entire training program has been revised and completely rewritten in this 272 page Volunteer Manual. The manual is designed as a workbook for the newly refilmed 7 DVD My Gift: Myself training series, but can be used alone as an excellent training tool and reference guide for hospice volunteers. The Hospice Volunteer Manual presents seven comprehensive chapters of training covering: 1. What's It All About? "Concepts in End Of Life Care" where caregivers explore the Hospice concept and learn what end of life care is all about. 2. What Can I Do? "Activities and Interventions" that caregivers can engage in to provide effective comfort and support to their patients and patient families. 3. The Greatest Gift "Learning to Listen With Love" focuses on developing the communication skills that are at the heart of successful support systems. 4. Physical Care "When A Patient Is Dying" describes what to expect from patients with different diagnoses and how to provide the best final care. 5. Things Of The Spirit "Providing Spiritual Care" coaches caregivers on ways to be sensitive to a dying person's spiritual needs. 6. A Time For Grief "Understanding The Grief Process" looks at one of the most important parts of care of the terminally ill: offering effective and appropriate support for the grieving family. Here caregivers learn how to process their own grief and to understand the grief of others. 7. Caring For You "Focusing on Healthy Self Care" addresses how to prevent burnout by understanding the signs of stress and learning ways to diminish its impact

Hospice and palliative care nursing is evolving and growing. This has propelled nurses into thinking about care in creative ways and enhancing bedside delivery of hospice and palliative care. This evidence-packed edition serves as a preparatory guide for board certification and a practice guide for the hospice and palliative care nurse.