Table of Contents
Module 1 Hospice and Palliative Care 1
Faculty Slides with Notes
Supplemental Handouts
Participant Slides-Handout
WHO Definition of Palliative Care
NHPCO –What is Hospice
Patient/Family Teaching: Palliative Care and Hospice
Participant Activities
Is it Hospice or is it Palliative Care
Case Scenarios-How do you Respond?
References
In-Service Hospice and Palliative Care
Faculty slides with Notes
Participant Slides-Handout
Reference List
Module 2 Communication with the Patient who is Dying 2
Faculty Slides with Notes
Supplemental Handouts
Participant Slides-Handout
HPNA Tips for Communicating with Seriously Ill Patients
HPNA Tips for Talking with Dying Patients
Participant Activities
Active Listening
Communication-Role play
Paraphrasing practice
Case Scenarios-How do you Respond
Reference List
In-Service Communication with the Patient who is Dying
Faculty Slides with Notes
Participant Slides-Handout
Reference List
Module 3 Death and Dying 3
Faculty Slides with Notes
Supplemental Handouts
Participant Slides-Handout
HPNA Tips for Nearing Death Awareness
HPNA Tips for What to do when a Patient Dies at Home
Children’s Grief Education Association: Words that Help/Words that can Hurt
HPNA Patient/Family Teaching: Final Days
HPNA Patient/Family Teaching: Respecting Cultural Beliefs
Participant Activities
Scenarios
Reference List
In-service Death and Dying
Faculty Slides with Notes
Participant Slides-Handout
Module 4 Grief, Loss and Bereavement 4
Faculty Slides with Notes
Supplemental Handouts
Participant Slides-Handout
HPNA Tips for Providing Emotional Support to the Family
Participant Activities
The Elephant in the Room
Loss Activity- Long Version
Loss Exercise Table
Loss Activity-Short Version
Reference List
Module 5 Taking Care of YOU 5
Faculty Slides with Notes
Supplemental Handouts
Participant Slides-Handout
Additonal Healthy Ideas to Relax or Relieve Stress
Personal versus Professional Relationships
Participant Activities
Refocusing Personal Questions
Professional Boundary Situations
Have to versus Want to Exercise
Reference List
Module 6 Skin Care and its Importance with the Hospice Patient 6
Faculty Slides with Notes
Supplemental Handouts
Participant Slides-Handout
HPNA Tips for Skin Care
Reference List
In-Service Skin Care and Its Importance with the Hospice Patient (unchanged)
Module 7 Pain and Symptom Management for the Hospice Patient 7
Faculty Slides with Notes
Supplemental Handouts
Participant Slides-Handout
HPNA Tips for What Should You Report
HPNA Tips for the NA’s Role in Pain Management
HPNA Tips for Recognizing Behaviors Indicating the Patient has Pain
HPNA Tips for Recognizing Pain in Patients with an Inability to Communicate Verbally
HPNA Tips for Assisting Patients who are Short of Breath
HPNA Tips for Constipation
Reference List
In-Service Pain and Symptom Management for the Hospice Patient
Faculty Slides with Notes
Participant Slides-Handout
Module 8 Depression and the Hospice Patient 8
Faculty Slides with Notes
Supplemental Handouts
Participant Slides-Handout
HPNA Patient/Family Teaching Managing Depression
Reference List
Inservice Depression and the Hospice Patient
Faculty Slides with Notes
Participant Slides with Notes
Module 9 Caring for Hospice Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease or Other Related Dementias 9
Faculty Slides with Notes
Supplemental Handouts
Participant Slides-Handout
HPNA Tips for Dementia
Reference List
In-Service Caring for Hospice Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease or Other Related Dementias
Faculty Slides with Notes
Participant Slides-Handout
Module 10 Non-Cancer Diagnoses in Hospice 10
Faculty Slides with Notes
Supplemental Handouts
Participant Slides-Handout
HPNA Quick Information Sheet-Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Hospice & Palliative
Patients
HPNA Quick Information Sheet-Congestive Heart Failure in Hospice & Palliative Care Patients
Participant Activities
Reference List
In-service Non-Cancer Diagnoses in Hospice
Faculty Slides with notes
Participant Slides-Handout
Module 11 ETHICS: Enriching the Lives of Patients as a Professional Nurse Aide 11
Teleconference Flyer
Supplemental Handouts
Participant Slides –Handout
Nursing Assistants Code of Ethics