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Description - The Palliative Care and Hospice Caregiver's Workbook by Lura L Pethtel

Also available: Special value course packs comprising five copies of the Workbook and one printed copy of the Educator's Guide at a discounted price. Click here for further details and to order! This workbook has been designed for all learning to care for dying people. Units include elements of mindfulness narrative medicine appreciative inquiry and reading provocative articles such that the learners over time come to understand the origins of their own views values and biases about death and dying as well as aspects of what it means to be a caregiver. Each unit can be used in isolation but taken together they form a comprehensive sequential learning program. Participants will also learn about and experiment with modern methods of communication compassionate presence and partnering with seriously ill patients and their families. This training gains depth each session such that learners will emerge from the process more self-aware and more capable of genuine engagement when they eventually join with patients and families in this remarkable process.
Ideal for training volunteers hospice nurses social workers and physicians (an accompanying Educator's Guide is available for download free to instructors - details are inside the Workbook) and useful for hospice and palliative care fellows and clinicians transitioning from other fields.

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