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This workbook was created specifically for personal support workers and anyone who provides direct care. As a companion workbook to "Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Worker's. Second Edition," this book will help you to solidify knowledge and develop skills in providing palliative and end-of-life care, and integrating a palliative approach. You will develop palliative care best practices and learn ways to provide culturally safe care to support a dying person and their family, including providing care with a trauma informed approach.The workbook is filled with creative learning activities designed to develop self-awareness, address bias and racism, and build palliative care knowledge and skills for supporting physical comfort and providing psychosocial care for the dying person and family. Examples of activities include reflective writing, short answer and true/false questions, mind mapping, creating vision boards, small and large group discussions, and role plays. Prepare yourself to care for the dying and their family by exploring your belief and biases through reflective writing developing your understanding of palliative and end of life care language, principles, and practises applying your knowledge in case scenarios, role-plays, in group discussionThis is a companion resource to help you develop your capacity to provide culturally safe palliative and end of life care and integrate a palliative approach for any person with a life limiting illness.

This book is an adaptation and translation from English into Spanish of, "Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Resource for Every Nurse; ISBN: 9781926923116 " It provides an engaging 'delicious and digetible' (easy-to-read, understand and apply) compendium of practical facts, ideas, instructions and procedures to meet the competencies needed by every nurse who works with patients and families who are dealing with any life-limiting illness or condition across all settings.

A companion workbook to 'Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Resource for Every Nurse," that actively engages you to help solidify your knowledge of hospice and palliative care. The workbook promotes learning the practical application of hospice and palliative care principles and procedures using creative activities.

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.

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.

This workbook assists nurses and caregivers in Nepal develop their hospice palliative care skills. It is a companion to the Hospice Palliative Care in Nepal textbook. Students work alone and in groups to apply theory and integrate new knowledge from the text into short answer questions, role plays, case study analysis and discussions with other students. All these activities will improve the speed that students learn the new content and are able to apply their new skills in work situations.

Hospice Palliative Care in Nepal is written in clear easy to understand language, with the Nepal Caregivers in mind. It guides you through best practices for providing care for the dying, adapting caregiving practices and includes caregiving stories from Nepal to meet the unique culture and expectations of Nepali society. Practical ways for managing common physical symptoms of the dying are explained, including: causes of common symptoms, palliative (medical) measures for treating symptoms, and comfort measures. Using this book will teach you about psychosocial issues that affect dying people and their family as well as ways to help people communicate in difficult situations.