Providence Hospice team members provide educational offerings and in-services for long-term care facility staff and other community partners. For more information or to schedule a class please call 503-962-1775 and leave your name, facility - if applicable, phone number and which class(es) you're are interested in getting information on or scheduling. One of our community educators will return your call as soon as possible.
1. Overview of Hospice:
Discuss the services, team and medications provided
2. Pain Management:
Learn about the types of pain, assessment, documentation, barriers, medications, definitions and consequences of uncontrolled pain
3. Alzheimer’s Disease:
Discuss diagnosis, medication, lobes of brain affected, how to communicate with the patient, how to assess for pain and when the patient is appropriate for hospice
4. Related Dementias:
Multi Infarct, Parkinson’s, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, Lewy Bodies, Pick’s Disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob
5. Strokes:
Review risk factors, how to communicate with the patient, provide rehabilitation and when the patient is appropriate for hospice
6. Congestive Heart Failure:
Right sided vs. left sided, dietary treatments and risk factors, medications, laboratory tests and when the patient is appropriate for hospice
7. Communication with End-of-Life Patients:
The value of good listening skills, open-ended questions, life review and communication tools
8. Nutrition at End-of-Life:
Body metabolism, interventions and the importance of food
9. Caring for the Caregiver:
Symptoms, causes and prevention
10. The Dying Process, “A Sacred Time”:
How facility staff and the hospice team partner together to recognize symptoms, how to care for the patient and when the patient is appropriate for hospice
11. Symptom Management:
Dyspnea, anorexia, constipation, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting
12. Depression and Suicide in the Elderly:
Symptoms, how to respond and document
13. Managing Clear Boundaries:
Know yourself and what bothers you. Types of boundaries and benefits of good boundaries
14. Dealing with Difficult Patients:
Behaviors and how to diffuse
15. Non-cancer Diagnoses and When the Patient is Appropriate for Hospice
16. Challenges of Aging:
Identifying symptoms such as touch, taste, smell and vision. How caregivers can help with those challenges and the impact it may have on the family
17. Living with Complications from Diabetes:
Effects and symptoms of macro-vascular and micro-vascular complications. Hypoglycemia versus Hyperglycemia
18. When Caregivers are Grieving:
Identifying factors affecting the grief process. Identifying losses that can cause grief. Co-presented by a hospice chaplain
19. Good Body Mechanics:
Identify tips in good back safety and injury prevention
20. Parkinson’s Disease:
Discussion on the commonality of the disease, the effects on the autonomic system, features and medications that mimic the disease. Identifying when the patient may be appropriate for Hospice
21. Cancer Progressions at End of Life:
Discussion of lung, breast, genitourinary and gastrointestinal cancers - where they metastasize and various treatments and modalities
22. Spiritual Pain at End of Life:
Realizing the need for meaning and significance at end of life. Defining spiritual pain, contributors, assessment and key words that may signal spiritual pain. Barriers, challenges and strategies that foster hope
23. Patient Centered Care:
Discuss what caring for the dying means and create a “Personal Loss Inventory”
24. Multiple Sclerosis:
What happens, what increases your risks, treatment and prevention. Complications and ways to cope with the psychological demands of the disease
25. Failure to Thrive:
Indicators for FTT and what factors may be allergies and reactions. We will talk morphine and other opioids used and various adjuvant medications and how they’re used
26. Lou Gehring’s Disease:
How is the disease diagnosed, its characteristics, and what life is like for someone with the disease. We will discus the disease, medications and treatments to improve quality of life
27. Medications Commonly Used at End of Life:
Questions asked, symptoms of opioid allergies and reactions. We will talk morphine and other opioids used and various adjuvant medications and how they’re used
28. Common Behavioral Problems at End of Life:
We’ll discuss some strategies to deal with difficult patients and what constitutes a difficult patient for you
29. The 3R’s of Memory: Registration, Retention and Retrieval:
How memory is acquired and how age affects memory. How to improve memory
30. Good Customer Service:
Understanding various cultural differences that can lead to misunderstandings with customers. How customers perceive the service offered. What makes us successful?
31. Cultural Expressions of Pain at End of Life:
Identify how cultures affect pain management, the non-pharmacological modalities used by various cultures and rituals at the time of death
32. Chronic Pain in Long-Term Care Settings:
Understanding how chronic pain affects the whole person and tips to manage chronic pain in the elderly
33. Skin Care:
The importance of good skin care and factors causing breakdown, signs and symptoms of infection and identify the difference between various stages of pressure sores
34. Symptoms Management at End-of-Life:
Trends in end-of-life care, common symptoms at end of life, e.g., anorexia, depression, anxiety, nausea and vomiting
35. Burnout -No One is Exempt:
A close look at caregiver stress, causes, warning signs and healthy choices. Prevention of burnout and learning to say, “No”
36. Depression and Suicide:
Symptoms, myths and factors leading to suicide followed by a scenario presented with a social worker
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