Professional Training
“It is all about life. We are just at different junctures along the same road.”
Amy Levine, Keynote, CapitalCare People & Progress Conference
Customized, Interactive Workshops, Talks, Programs
Mindfulness and End of Life Conversations: As Illness Progresses. Find your style. Mindfulness deepens our self awareness. Self awareness as a tool, leads to identifying the challenges faced in any setting or situation. What stands in the way of initiating a challenging conversations. Identify your challenges to engaging in difficult conversations with a patient/client facing serious illness.
The Impact of Serious Illness: Loneliness: How to help. Serious illness can appear in our lives at anytime. Understanding the psychosocial impact of serious illness, and increased isolation enables healthcare teams to provide the support that is needed.
Advance Care Planning Overview. What is it? Beginning conversations for advance care planning at all ages ensures wishes will be heard and observed. Providing a roadmap for medical care decision making now leads to control later. In a crisis is not the time to begin.
Companioning: When Words are Absent. Visiting someone who is no longer verbal can feel awkward for many people. Increase your comfort level. Concrete tools and guidance provide skills and fosters connection with an individual at this end stage of illness.
Well Care - Self Care: On the Job Tools. Finding our balance in the midst of chaos is a skill. Find the calm within. Set realistic expectations. Identify strategies adaptable in any setting. All is needed is a moment or a minute.
Homecare Staff Challenges:
A. “ What to do when food isn’t the answer” Ways to support patients at the end of life when refusing food. Deepening an understanding of end stage of life
B. “My patient died” Acknowledging grief and honoring relationships.