Education

Hospice of Guernsey, Inc. offers a variety of educational and informational in-services to physician’s offices or healthcare facilities. Most programs run for an average of 45 minutes to 1 hour in length. Programs can also be structured to a specific topic depending on your needs.

Presentations available include:

Dying with Dignity

Objectives:

1. Define what it means to die with dignity
2. List three measures to help patients maintain their dignity
3. Discuss 3 symptoms of active dying and two interventions for each

Hospice Philosophy

Grief and the Workplace

Objective:

1. List 3 strategies for handling losses

Nutritional Needs of the Terminally Ill

Objectives:

1. Identify 3 ways to implement nutritional care for the terminally ill patient
2. Identify 2 benefits and 2 risks of supplemental feeding
3. Identify appropriate nutritional interventions for patients based on stage of illness

Basic Pain Management

Objectives:

1. Discuss 3 routes of medication administration for hospice patients
2. Describe and give appropriate medication classes for use with typical pain
3. Describe 4 types of atypical pain

Hospice Care in the Nursing Facility

Objectives:

1. The learner will describe 3 benefits to patient/staff/facility of hospice care
2. List 3 responsibilities for care of the hospice patient from facility and hospice staff
3. Describe how a referral is made to hospice

Hospice Care: Benefits and Criteria

End of Life Care (30 minute video)

Objectives:

1. The learner will describe behavior changes related to food, sleep, and pain at end-of-life and interventions for each
2. The learner will describe 3 physical changes associated with imminent death

Care for the Caregiver (30 minute video)

Objectives:

1. The learner will describe 2 ways to create a fulfilling work environment
2. The learner will describe 2 ways to maintain a balanced personal life amid stressful and sad caregiving situations

Being Mortal (60-minute video-reexamine death and dying with surgeon and bestselling author Atul Gawande)

Objectives:

1. The learner will be able to discuss ways the health professional can discuss dying with their patients
2. The learner will be able to describe differences and similarities between palliative and hospice care
3. The learner will be able to discuss importance of learning patient goals of care

Communication at the End-of-Life

Objectives:

1. The learner will describe 3 issues that may impact understanding of prognosis at the end-of-life
2. The learner will describe 2 barriers of patients’ ability to discuss fears of dying