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| hospice volunteer training programs: Hospice Volunteer Orientation Mary Lou Kopp, 2009-08-20 Hospice Volunteer Orientation: A Coordinator's Toolkit for Effective Training Mary Lou Kopp, MSN, RN, CHPN, CNE The easy way to train hospice volunteers, create a standardized training program, and comply with the revised Hospice Conditions of Participation. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) require the use of volunteers in hospice and are very specific about the role they play. To meet these obligations, providers must have an effective volunteer program in place. Thoroughly tested and successfully implemented in a hospice setting, Hospice Volunteer Orientation: A Coordinator's Toolkit for Effective Training offers step-by-step educator instructions for developing a structured volunteer training program. Learn how to: Train and retain qualified, motivated volunteers through standardized education Meet cost-saving requirements Document compliance, prepare for possible survey, and avoid citations Manage risk by knowing what hospice surveyors will exam Receive the most accurate Medicare payment This toolkit includes: Trainer notes, slides, and handouts that comprise a complete orientation program for volunteers Suggested resources and links to supplemental materials that allow trainers to modify and customize the training to suit their individual hospice needs A participant competency assessment and module evaluations that comply with and satisfy the requirements for documentation of volunteer training and orientation A participant self assessment that helps the trainer identify volunteers who might not be emotionally ready to contribute Customizable forms, handouts, and slides on CD-ROM Comprised of Seven Effective Modules: Introduction to Hospice Death, Dying, and Grief Spirituality End-Of-Life Communication Care and Comfort at End of Life Hands-on Care Bereavement PLUS: Supplemental Materials |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Living With Grief Kenneth J. Doka, Joyce D. Davidson, 2014-05-22 Produced as a companion to the Hospice Foundation of America's fifth annual National Bereavement Teleconference, this volume examines how key aspects of identity affect how individuals grieve. Variables explored include culture, spirituality, age and development level, class and gender. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: The Eleventh Hour Barbara Karnes, 2008-01-01 |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Becoming Dead Right Frances Shani Parker, 2007-01-01 Becoming Dead Right guides readers through the general and how to information maze that prepares them for dealing with death. This book is filled with poetry, stories, wisdom, and common sense that can help baby boomers, students, caregivers, and policy makers understand that society can make important changes that can ensure safe, dignified, individualized care at the end of ones life. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care Derek Doyle, 2002 This book provides comprehensive, practical guidelines on the responsibilites of those who leade, co-ordinate and manage volunteers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams. Volunteers are key workers, who often perform difficult and always important work. In the United Kingdom alone, there are thousands of volunteers in hospice work, a small proportion doing work with patients, and the vast majority doing equally valuable work such as driving, sitting with relatives, manning charity shops and telephones. As a result, Europe, Australia, the United States and Canada are very interested in the United Kingdom's use of volunteers. Aimed primarily at Volunteer Service Managers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams, this book covers volunteer selection, training, supervision and support, and legal and ethical considerations. Information is presented in an easily accessible way, using key points, summary panels and checklists. Contributors, who are all Volunteer Service Managers themselves, have included small, clinical vignettes to bring the text to life. This book withh also appeal to the volunteers themselves. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: The Volunteer Management Handbook Tracy D. Connors, 2011-11-01 Completely revised and expanded, the ultimate guide to starting—and keeping—an active and effective volunteer program Drawing on the experience and expertise of recognized authorities on nonprofit organizations, The Volunteer Management Handbook, Second Edition is the only guide you need for establishing and maintaining an active and effective volunteer program. Written by nonprofit leader Tracy Connors, this handy reference offers practical guidance on such essential issues as motivating people to volunteer their time and services, recruitment, and more. Up-to-date and practical, this is the essential guide to managing your nonprofit's most important resource: its volunteers. Now covers volunteer demographics, volunteer program leaders and managers, policy making and implementation, planning and staff analysis, recruiting, interviewing and screening volunteers, orienting and training volunteers, and much more Up-to-date, practical guidance for the major areas of volunteer leadership and management Explores volunteers and the law: liabilities, immunities, and responsibilities Designed to help nonprofit organizations survive and thrive, The Volunteer Management Handbook, Second Edition is an indispensable reference that is unsurpassed in both the breadth and depth of its coverage. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Dying Well Ira Byock, 1998-03-01 From Ira Byock, prominent palliative care physician and expert in end of life decisions, a lesson in Dying Well. Nobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone. This is Ira Byock's dream, and he is dedicating his life to making it come true. Dying Well brings us to the homes and bedsides of families with whom Dr. Byock has worked, telling stories of love and reconciliation in the face of tragedy, pain, medical drama, and conflict. Through the true stories of patients, he shows us that a lot of important emotional work can be accomplished in the final months, weeks, and even days of life. It is a companion for families, showing them how to deal with doctors, how to talk to loved ones—and how to make the end of life as meaningful and enriching as the beginning. Ira Byock is also the author of The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Hospice Volunteer Joe Schrantz, 2002 The author tell of his experiences as a hospice volunteer with twelve of his patients. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care Kimberly D. Acquaviva, 2017-05-23 This is the only handbook for hospice and palliative care professionals looking to enhance their care delivery or their programs with LGBTQ-inclusive care. Anchored in the evidence, extensively referenced, and written in clear, easy-to-understand language, LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care provides clear, actionable strategies for hospice and palliative physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors, and chaplains. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Understanding Your Grief Alan D. Wolfelt, 2004-02-01 Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well. The rights of mourners to be compassionate with themselves, to lean on others for help, and to trust in their ability to heal are upheld. Journaling sections encourage mourners to articulate their unique thoughts and feelings. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Palliative Day Care Ronald Fisher, 1996-03-29 There has been a steady growth in the provision of day care services for people with life-threatening illnesses who live at home. This book includes details of the range of therapies and services that a multi-disciplinary team can provide to address the physical, emotional, psycho-social and spiritual needs of these patients and their families, thus enabling them to remain in their own homes. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Living with Grief Since COVID-19 Kenneth Doka, Robert Neimeyer, Leah McDonald, Maria Georgopoulos, Paul Rosenblatt, Beverly Wallace, Linda Goldman, Gary Fink, Paul Metzler, William Villanova, Sherman Lee, 2021-02-25 A comprehensive review of grief and loss issues facing professionals and families due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Measuring the Impact of Volunteers Christine Burych, Alison Caird, Joanne Fine Schwebel, Michael Fliess, Heather Hardie, 2016-02-02 Measuring the Impact of Volunteers: A Balanced and Strategic Approach focuses on the long-accepted principle that simply counting “heads” and hours served does NOT give a full picture of the value of volunteer engagement in an organization. The authors adapt the concepts of the “balanced scorecard” performance measurement tool (developed by Kaplan and Norton in the 1990s) to the needs and challenges of volunteer resources management, creating a unique Volunteer Resources Balanced Scorecard (VRBSc). What results is a method for evaluating and planning a volunteer engagement strategy that aligns with the priorities and goals of the organization and the needs of its clients. As a planning tool, the VRBSc helps leaders of volunteers ensure that volunteer service is in sync with the overall goals of the organization. As an evaluation tool, the VRBSc allows decision makers to take an honest look at all aspects of volunteer involvement, balancing four different perspectives that, together, lead to success. Directors of volunteer resources can assess where volunteers are having the most impact and what they should be doing next. As a reporting tool, the VRBSc shows progress and achievements to stakeholders in concrete ways that are meaningful to them. Using illustrations, worksheets, and a comprehensive appendix including survey tools, this book takes readers step by step through the process of creating and using their own VRBSc. Readers will: • See how traditional measurement tools for volunteer engagement do not effectively demonstrate the value and extent of volunteer service • Follow the evolution of the balanced scorecard concept from businesses, to nonprofits, and now to volunteer resources • Develop their own Volunteer Resources Balanced Scorecard • Write meaningful reports that spark action from organization leaders |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Dignity Therapy Harvey Max Chochinov, 2012-01-04 Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care. Dignity therapy, a psychological intervention developed by Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov and his internationally lauded research group, has been designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as they grapple with the reality of life drawing to a close. In the first book to lay out the blueprint for this unique and meaningful intervention, Chochinov addresses one of the most important dimensions of being human. Being alive means being vulnerable and mortal; he argues that dignity therapy offers a way to preserve meaning and hope for patients approaching death. With history and foundations of dignity in care, and step by step guidance for readers interested in implementing the program, this volume illuminates how dignity therapy can change end-of-life experience for those about to die - and for those who will grieve their passing. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Caring for the Dying Henry Fersko-Weiss, 2017-03-01 Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth doulas and helps the dying to find meaning in their life, express that meaning in powerful and beautiful legacies, and plan for the final days. The approach calls for around-the-clock vigil care, so the dying person and their family have the emotional and spiritual support they need along with guidance on signs and symptoms of dying. It also covers the work of reprocessing a death with the family afterward and the early work of grieving. Emphasis is placed on the space around the dying person and encourages the use of touch, guided imagery, and ritual during the dying process. Throughout the book Fersko-Weiss tells amazing and encouraging stories of the people he has cared for, as well as stories that come from doulas he has trained and worked with over the years. What is unique about this book is the well-conceived and thorough approach it describes to working skillfully with the dying. The guidance provided can help a dying person, their family, and caregivers to transform the dying experience from one of fear and despair into one that is uplifting and even life affirming. You will see death in a new light and gain a different perspective on how to help the dying. It may even change the way you live your life right now. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: The Hospice Companion Perry Fine, Matthew Kestenbaum, 2012-05-31 Rev. ed of: The hospice companion / Perry G. Fine. 2008. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Medicare Hospice Manual , 1992 |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Transitions in Dying and Bereavement Marney Thompson, Victoria Hospice Society, Wendy Wainwright, 2017 Preceded by Transitions in dying and bereavement: a psychosocial guide for hospice and palliative care / by Victoria Hospice Society and Moira Cairns, Marney Thompson, Wendy Wainwright. c2003. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Reflections of a Loving Partner C. Andrew Martin, 2010 Reflections of a Loving Partner is the intimate story of two devoted partners confronting the challenges of a terminal diagnosis. Author C. Andrew Martin's world was shattered when his life partner, Gil, was diagnosed with AIDS. This eloquent memoir shares their love story, unveiling the burdens and the joys of the caregiving journey. Andrew chose to become Gil's caregiver. To prepare for what lay ahead, Andrew enrolled in hospice volunteer training, learning lessons to guide him through the medical, emotional, spiritual, and legal hazards of caregiving. Now a registered nurse and leader in the field of hospice and palliative care, Andrew has turned his personal experience into his life's work, sharing with others the valuable lessons he learned. Andrew shows us that when we are open to its possibilities, the loving and selfless act of being a caregiver for someone who is at the end of life can teach us just as much about living as about dying. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: The Good Death Ann Neumann, 2017-02-07 Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States. When Ann Neumann’s father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She became his full-time caregiver—cooking, cleaning, and administering medications. When her father died, she was undone by the experience, by grief and the visceral quality of dying. Neumann struggled to put her life back in order and found herself haunted by a question: Was her father’s death a good death? The way we talk about dying and the way we actually die are two very different things, she discovered, and many of us are shielded from what death actually looks like. To gain a better understanding, Neumann became a hospice volunteer and set out to discover what a good death is today. She attended conferences, academic lectures, and grief sessions in church basements. She went to Montana to talk with the attorney who successfully argued for the legalization of aid in dying, and to Scranton, Pennsylvania, to listen to “pro-life” groups who believe the removal of feeding tubes from some patients is tantamount to murder. Above all, she listened to the stories of those who were close to death. What Neumann found is that death in contemporary America is much more complicated than we think. Medical technologies and increased life expectancies have changed the very definition of medical death. And although death is our common fate, it is also a divisive issue that we all experience differently. What constitutes a good death is unique to each of us, depending on our age, race, economic status, culture, and beliefs. What’s more, differing concepts of choice, autonomy, and consent make death a contested landscape, governed by social, medical, legal, and religious systems. In these pages, Neumann brings us intimate portraits of the nurses, patients, bishops, bioethicists, and activists who are shaping the way we die. The Good Death presents a fearless examination of how we approach death, and how those of us close to dying loved ones live in death’s wake. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: When Grief Is Complicated Kenneth Doka, Amy Tucci, 2017-03-01 |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Izzy & Lenore Jon Katz, 2008-09-23 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jon Katz's Going Home. In his previous books, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz introduced us to the delightful menagerie at Bedlam Farm, including Izzy, the unforgettable border collie rescue. Now, in Izzy & Lenore, Katz delves deeper into his connection with the beautiful, once-abandoned dog, learning yet again about the unexpected places animals can take us. Affectionate and intuitive, Izzy is unlike any dog Katz has encountered, and the two undertake a journey Katz could not have imagined without the arrival of a new companion: a spirited, bright-eyed black Labrador puppy named Lenore. As trained hospice volunteers visiting homes and nursing facilities in upstate New York, Katz and Izzy bring comfort and canine companionship to people who most need it. An eighty-year-old Alzheimer’s patient smiles for the first time in months when she feels Izzy’s soft fur. A retired logger joyfully remembers his own beloved dog when he sees Izzy. As Izzy bonds with patients and Katz focuses on their families, the author begins to come to terms with his own life, discovering dark realities he has never confronted. Meanwhile, Lenore–quickly dubbed the Hound of Love–arrives at Bedlam. Her genial personality and boundless capacity for affection steer Katz out of the shadows, rekindle his love of working with dogs, and restore his connection to the farm and the animals and people around him. Humorous and deeply moving, Izzy & Lenore is a story of a man confronting his past, embracing the blessings of his current life, and rediscovering the meaning of friendship, family, and faith. Katz shares an uplifting tale of love, compassion, and the rich and complex relationships between dogs and their humans. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: The Seven Agreements JoAnne Chitwood, 2018-02-16 For over a decade, a thousand hospice programs have relied on JoAnne Chitwood's My Gift: Myself Medicare approved training program to educate staff and volunteers in providing professional, compassionate care for the terminally ill patient. Now she and Dr. Melendez have greatly expanded upon this basic training to provide physicians and nurses working in end-of-life care a thorough overview of the hospice treatment program. The Seven Agreements is also an excellent reference book for primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, counselors and pastors that directly interact with any person approaching end-of-life, whether they enroll in hospice or not. JoAnne presents her training within the format of the Seven Agreements that hospice care workers implicitly make with their patients and patient families: 1. I Will Help You Understand the Journey 2. I Will Help You in Practical Ways 3. I Will Listen to You With All My Heart 4. I Will Do All I Can to Relieve Your Symptoms 5. I Will Honor your Spirit 6. I Will Walk With You in Your Grief 7. I Will Take Care of Me So I Can Take Care of You Included are effective medication recommendations for the many difficult pain and symptom management situations that are endured by hospice patients, including compounded drugs and a short overview of medical marijuana. Other subjects covered in this 358 page reference manual are: Overview of the hospice history and program operation. Understanding and helping support the grief process for adults and children. Effective listening techniques. Supporting and communicating with unresponsive, Alzheimers, and dementia patients. Palliative care emergency treatment situations. Supporting pediatric hospice patients. How to approach and manage the specific challenges of dealing with military veteran patients. Music and Animal therapy. Dietary suggestions for hospice patients. Body mechanics for lifting and transferring patients. How to spiritually support your patient and family, including how different cultures and religions view and deal with the dying process. How to take care of yourself and prevent burnout, including how to set effective boundaries. An extensive bibliography and list of end-of-life web resources. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Males With Eating Disorders Arnold E. Andersen, 2014-06-17 First published in 1990. The subject of anorexia nervosa and, more recently, bulimia nervosa in males has been a source of interest and controversy in the fields of psychiatry and medicine for more than 300 years. These disorders, sometimes called eating disorders, raise basic questions concerning the nature of abnormalities of the motivated behaviors: Are they subsets of more widely recognized illnesses such as mood disorders? Are they understandable by reference to underlying abnormalities of biochemistry or brain function? In what ways are they similar to and in what ways do they differ from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in females? This book will be of interest to a wide variety of people—physicians, psychologists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, nutritionists, educators, and all others who may be interested for personal or professional reasons. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: The LAST Virtual Volunteering Guidebook Jayne Cravens, Susan J. Ellis, 2014-01-15 What is virtual volunteering? It’s work done by volunteers online, via computers, smartphones or other hand-held devices, and often from afar. More and more organizations around the world are engaging people who want to contribute their skills via the Internet. The service may be done virtually, but the volunteers are real! In The LAST Virtual Volunteering Guidebook, international volunteerism consultants Jayne Cravens and Susan J. Ellis emphasize that online service should be integrated into an organization’s overall strategy for involving volunteers. They maintain that the basic principles of volunteer management should apply equally to volunteers working online or onsite. Whether you’re tech-savvy or still a newbie in cyberspace, this book will show you how to lead online volunteers successfully by: -Overcoming resistance to online volunteer service and the myths surrounding it; -Designing virtual volunteering assignments, from micro-volunteering to long-term projects, from Web research to working directly with clients via the Internet; -Adding a virtual component to any volunteer’s service; -Interviewing and screening online volunteers; -Managing risk and protecting confidentiality in online interactions; -Creating online communities for volunteers; -Offering orientation and training via Internet tools; -Recruiting new volunteers successfully through the Web and social media; and -Assuring accessibility and diversity among online volunteers. Cravens and Ellis fervently believe that future volunteer management practitioners will automatically incorporate online service into community engagement, making this book the last virtual volunteering guidebook that anyone has to write! |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Oxford Textbook of Correctional Psychiatry Robert L. Trestman, Kenneth L. Appelbaum, Jeffrey L. Metzner, 2015 This textbook brings together leading experts to provide a comprehensive and practical review of common clinical, organisational, and ethical issues in correctional psychiatry. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Intimacy and Sexuality During Illness and Loss Kenneth Doka, Amy Tucci, 2020-03 |
| hospice volunteer training programs: How to Be an Even Better Listener Robert Mundle, 2018-11-21 Providing guidance and advice on the challenging art of listening, this book responds directly to the expressed learning needs of hospice and palliative care volunteers regarding their communication skills in end-of-life care. Listening can be mentally, physically, and spiritually exhausting, often highlighted in books about hospice and palliative care but never taking the spotlight. This accessible companion provides hospice and palliative care workers with a variety of helpful insights and suggestions drawn from a solid base of current theoretical concepts and clinical research. With personal reflections on being listened to, the guide includes strategies for becoming a more effective listener, as well as exploring the challenges of listening, the need for self-care and spiritual and ethical considerations. By expanding their own capacity for empathy, compassion and understanding the wider narrative of illness, hospice and palliative care volunteers will become even better listeners in their essential roles. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Handbook of Death and Dying Clifton D. Bryant, 2003 Review: More than 100 scholars contributed to this carefully researched, well-organized, informative, and multi-disciplinary source on death studies. Volume 1, The Presence of Death, examines the cultural, historical, and societal frameworks of death, such as the universal fear of death, spirituality and varioius religions, the legal definition of death, suicide, and capital punishment. Volume 2, The Response to Death, covers such topics as rites and ceremonies, grief and bereavement, and legal matters after death.--The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year, American Libraries, May 2004. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Compassionate Communities Klaus Wegleitner, Katharina Heimerl, Allan Kellehear, 2015-06-26 Compassionate communities are communities that provide assistance for those in need of end of life care, separate from any official heath service provision that may already be available within the community. This idea was developed in 2005 in Allan Kellehear’s seminal volume- Compassionate Cities: Public Health and End of Life Care. In the ensuing ten years the theoretical aspects of the idea have been continually explored, primarily rehearsing academic concerns rather than practical ones. Compassionate Communities: Case Studies from Britain and Europe provides the first major volume describing and examining compassionate community experiments in end of life care from a highly practical perspective. Focusing on community development initiatives and practice challenges, the book offers practitioners and policy makers from the health and social care sectors practical discussions on the strengths and limitations of such initiatives. Furthermore, not limited to providing practice choices the book also offers an important and timely impetus for other practitioners and policy makers to begin thinking about developing their own possible compassionate communities. An essential read for academic, practitioner, and policy audiences in the fields of public health, community development, health social sciences, aged care, bereavement care, and hospice & palliative care, Compassionate Communities is one of only a handful of available books on end of life care that takes a strong health promotion and community development approach. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: What Do I Say? Margrit Anna Banta, 2014 People who are dying want to know that they are loved and cared for. Your attentive presence can accomplish this, and What Do I Say? will tell you how. It gives family, friends, and caregivers of the terminally ill a personal and pastoral approach to being with someone who is dying, with suggestions for areas such as important topics to cover and what to do when someone can't communicate. Above all, this book encourages you to provide a steady presence, answering questions when necessary, simply listening at times, and praying with the person when that is desired. (Back cover). |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Open to Hope Gloria Horsley, Heidi Horsley, 2018-08-15 Whether a death is sudden or anticipated, losing a loved one shakes us to our very core, destroying our belief in a just, safe, and predictable world. Grief often changes us quickly both physically and mentally. It is like being kidnapped and suddenly transported to a foreign land without luggage, a passport, or the language to make sense of what's happening. Even if you have a road map for getting through the pain and anguish, you still have to take the trip. The purpose of this book is to help you find threads of hope that will assist your recovery and help you carry on. By sharing inspirational stories, personal experiences, and professional advice from contributors to theOpen to Hope website, we trust that you will be comforted and inspired by learning how others dealt with their losses, what they saw as roadblocks, and how they handled them as well as what it has taken for them to not only survive, but thrive. We want to help you resume leading the life that you were meant to live--a life of satisfaction and one driven by a belief in your own personal power for change. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Accompanying the Dying: Practical, Heart-Centered Wisdom for End-Of-Life Doulas and Health Care Advocates Deanna Cochran, 2019-02-15 This book empowers society to understand how to die well. It is overflowing with wisdom, offers historical context and present-day initiatives and describes how end-of-life doulas and health-care advocates can change the face of dying. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Working with Older Adults: Group Process and Technique Barbara Haight, Faith Gibson, 2005-03-30 Beginning with an overview of the changing world of aging, this book goes on to address practical principles and guidelines for group work. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Volunteering Kathlyn Gay, 2004-09-27 More than 70 percent of America's 60 million young people believe they can make a difference in their communities, and the numbers support their assertions. Teenagers spend 2.4 billion hours annually in volunteer service, and their labor is worth $34.3 billion to the U.S. economy. Volunteering brings emotional satisfaction, provides opportunities for learning skills that can be used in the job market, and helps teens to make career choices. But the major reasons that teens cite for performing volunteer service is the compassion they feel for people in need and the belief that they improve the quality of life for others. Volunteering: The Ultimate Teen Guide is a complete guide for teens who want to volunteer. Young people get a complete picture of what volunteering involves, including the personal commitment and the physical and emotional stamina, as well as the positive_and sometimes negative_consequences. This book is filled with inspiring and rewarding stories from teen volunteers who testify to the benefits and the immense personal satisfaction as a result of their volunteer efforts. Volunteering is a wonderful resource for both teens as well as those who work with teens on how to use one's time and energy to positively impact society and to gain personal satisfaction from helping others. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Palliative Care Consultant Ohio Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Staff, Phyllis Grauer, 2010-10-21 |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Lessons for the Living Stan Goldberg, 2009-06-09 When Stan Goldberg was diagnosed with cancer, he chose to face his fear by helping others who were already in the process of dying: Stan signed up as a hospice volunteer and spent several years at the bedsides of the terminally ill. In this book, Stan shares the remarkable stories of people he met who were facing the end of life. Their stories shine a light on the human capacity for beauty, insight, forgiveness, and gratitude, as we see how people like us deal with anxiety and sadness with bravery and love. But what's especially remarkable is that the bravery and love aren't as much expressed in grand, dramatic gestures as they are in ordinary acts and small accomplishments: in simple efforts at kindness, in asking for and receiving forgiveness, in the abandonment of anger, and in learning to speak directly from the heart—and to listen in the same way. What Stan ultimately discovers—and shares here—are not lessons in dying, but rather, lessons in learning how to live. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process Aota, 2014 As occupational therapy celebrates its centennial in 2017, attention returns to the profession's founding belief in the value of therapeutic occupations as a way to remediate illness and maintain health. The founders emphasized the importance of establishing a therapeutic relationship with each client and designing an intervention plan based on the knowledge about a client's context and environment, values, goals, and needs. Using today's lexicon, the profession's founders proposed a vision for the profession that was occupation based, client centered, and evidence based--the vision articulated in the third edition of the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process. The Framework is a must-have official document from the American Occupational Therapy Association. Intended for occupational therapy practitioners and students, other health care professionals, educators, researchers, payers, and consumers, the Framework summarizes the interrelated constructs that describe occupational therapy practice. In addition to the creation of a new preface to set the tone for the work, this new edition includes the following highlights: a redefinition of the overarching statement describing occupational therapy's domain; a new definition of clients that includes persons, groups, and populations; further delineation of the profession's relationship to organizations; inclusion of activity demands as part of the process; and even more up-to-date analysis and guidance for today's occupational therapy practitioners. Achieving health, well-being, and participation in life through engagement in occupation is the overarching statement that describes the domain and process of occupational therapy in the fullest sense. The Framework can provide the structure and guidance that practitioners can use to meet this important goal. |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Volunteerism Marketing Walter W., Jr. Wymer, 2014-06-03 Explore the personality traits, values, and characteristics to look for in volunteers! Volunteerism Marketing: New Vistas for Nonprofit and Public Sector Management is an excellent research tool for volunteer organizers, academic researchers and reference librarians in the disciplines of business, education administration, health care, psychology, public administration, and sociology. This book will give you a better understanding of what kind of people to look for when seeking volunteers in hospitals, hospices, for organ donation, and for public education. Through studies and tests such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, this book explores the personality traits and characteristics of volunteers in various fields. In Volunteerism Marketing, you will discover the characteristics that separate volunteers from non volunteers and the segmented characteristics of volunteers for differing venues. This information will assist you in attracting, training, and retaining the right volunteers for your organization. Some of the areas you will explore include: the differences between hospice volunteers and other types of volunteers the unique characteristics of hospital volunteers, such as these three social-lifestyle variables: the average number of hours served in a volunteer’s primary organization, the number of volunteer organizations in which the volunteer serves, and the volunteer’s frequency of attendance at religious services encouraging human organ donation with financial incentives exploring research that examines volunteerism as a part of social marketing utilizing the concept of market exchange to attract non-parents and the community as a whole as volunteers in public educationVolunteerism Marketing: New Vistas for Nonprofit and Public Sector Management is the single most current and comprehensive guide to the subject of volunteerism. This exceptional reference provides you with decisionmaking support in a wide variety of nonprofit settings and gives guidelines for future research. The segmented and descriptive case studies, charts and graphs found in this valuable book will assist you in understanding the characteristics of volunteers for differing fields, while giving you an edge on recruiting and retaining them! |
| hospice volunteer training programs: Performing Loss Jodi Kanter, 2007-11-13 In Performing Loss: Rebuilding Community through Theater and Writing, author Jodi Kanter explores opportunities for creativity and growth within our collective responses to grief. Performing Loss provides teachers, students, and others interested in performance with strategies for reading, writing, and performing loss as communities—in the classroom, the theater, and the wider public sphere. From an adaptation of Jose Saramago’s novel Blindness to a reading of Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play, from Kanter’s own experience creating theater with terminally ill patients and federal prisoners to a visual artist’s response to September 11th, Kanter shows in practical, replicable detail how performing loss with community members can transform experiences of isolation and paralysis into experiences of solidarity and action. Drawing on academic work in performance, cultural studies, literature, sociology, and anthropology, Kanter considers a range of responses to grief in historical context and goes on to imagine newer, more collaborative, and more civically engaged responses. Performing Loss describes Kanter’s pedagogical and artistic processes in lively and vivid detail, enabling the reader to use her projects as models or to adapt the techniques to new communities, venues, and purposes. Kanter demonstrates through each example the ways in which writing and performing can create new possibilities for mourning and living together. |
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At St. Croix Hospice in Sioux City, the hospice care we provide includes support for loved ones to address end-of-life questions, help with advance care plans, respite and vigil care, and …
Frequently Asked Questions About Hospice Care
Hospice care is a service for people with serious illnesses who choose not to get (or continue) treatment to cure or control their illness. People may choose to enroll in hospice care if the …
Hospice Care Services - Care Initiatives
Care Initiatives offers personalized hospice care, providing physical, emotional, and spiritual support to patients and families during end-of-life transitions.
What is hospice? - Hospice Foundation of America
Sep 24, 2024 · Hospice is medical care for people who are expected to live six months or less. It is provided primarily where a person lives — at home or in a nursing home or community living …
Hospice Of Siouxland - Hospice Care in Sioux City, IA | Medicare …
Hospice Of Siouxland offers compassionate end-of-life care in Sioux City, Iowa. Learn about our location, available services, Medicare certification, patient reviews, and appointment options.
HOSPICE OF SIOUXLAND - Hospice in SIOUX CITY
Aug 24, 2020 · HOSPICE OF SIOUXLAND in SIOUX CITY, IA is a Medicare certifed hospice agency. Review the quality of care and score.
Guide to Hospice Care: Your Questions Answered - WebMD
Sep 5, 2024 · Hospice is the specific kind of palliative care you get when the end of life is likely near -- usually less than 6 months away -- and you are no longer trying to slow down or cure …
17 Hospice Facilities in Sioux City, IA - Find Reviews, Photos
There are 17 hospice facilities serving Sioux City, Iowa. This includes 7 facilities in Sioux City and 10 nearby. Hospice care costs in Iowa range from about $111 to $200 per day, with a median …
St. Croix Hospice | In-Home Hospice Care, Palliative Care, and …
St. Croix Hospice local caregivers are available 24/7, providing quality, expert hospice care. Learn about hospice care services and locations here.
St. Croix Hospice | Photos, Reviews, Prices | Senior Living
Located in Sioux City, Iowa, St. Croix Hospice is dedicated to delivering personalized hospice care and comfort tailored to senior patients and their families’ unique needs. Their …
