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Consistent end-of-life education is key to ensuring continuity of care, with every team member providing the same compassionate guidance to patients and families. By using our end-of-life resources to educate your staff, you'll foster the unity and effectiveness needed to deliver the highest standard of care.

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The End of Life Caregiver Bundle: Empowering Professional Caregivers with Comprehensive Support
Award winning educational DVD, "This is How People Die" is a practical guide for working with patients and families facing end of life issues. In non-medical terminology, Barbara addresses the normal dying process from the months before to the moment of death.  This film is used in continuing education for the following:  Medical Staff Orientation Hospice Volunteer Training Stephen Ministries Parish Nurses End of Life Doulas Nursing Faculty Inservice &/or Orientation Nursing Schools
This is How People Die DVD
Sale price$300.00
 DVD: Care For The Caregiver (28 minutes) by Barbara Karnes, RN  Suggestions for creating a fulfilling work environment, staying balanced and healthy amid constant sadness, and maintaining a happy, engaged personal life.
Booklet - You Need Care Too: Self Care For The Professional Caregiver This booklet is filled with ideas and guidance for the nurse, social worker, nurse’s aide, chaplain, physician, end of life doula, or Eleventh Hour volunteer. Anyone who is immersed in the responsibilities of supporting, educating, and guiding a person and their family through the dying experience can find insight into making their work healthier.
Barbara Karnes, RN created the multi award winning "New Rules For End of Life Care" an educational kit that teaches people how to care for their loved one during the end of their life and  will give you the valuable information you need to understand the dying process.  Has information that addresses the behavior changes as they pertain to food, sleep and withdrawal but pain management and the use of narcotics, addiction and overdosing.  Booklets "Gone From My Sight
"  and "The Eleventh Hour" included.
The Final Act of Living: Reflections of a Long-Time Hospice Nurse
By Your Side, A Guide for Caring for the Dying at Home by Barbara Karnes
Believing that knowledge reduces fear and that in our society there is considerable lack of knowledge about the normal, natural dying process, Barbara Karnes, RN writes weekly blog articles on end of life issues and answers questions or addresses comments submitted to her web site.  As the number of articles increased so have requests for a printed collection of the easy to read articles, hence the compilations.
Knowledge Reduces Fear Volume 2: A Resource for End of Life Education
End of Life Guideline Series informs people on how to live with a life-threatening illness, what to expect when someone is dying, what to do to help, managing pain, how to address the fear of death and dying and how to grieve.


With over 30 million sold the "Little Blue Book" is the first, most beloved and widely used resource of its kind. Written by American hospice pioneer Barbara Karnes, RN, Gone From My Sight explains the signs of approaching death from disease and old age.
Always Offer, Never Force: Food at End of Life
“The Eleventh Hour” is the companion booklet to "Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience" together they have been shown to significantly improve CAHPS scores, family survey results and meet Medicare requirements for consistent family education. Agencies/hospices put these two booklets together in their initial family packets to inform families on the signs of approaching death and how to care for a loved one who is dying.
There is much fear and misconception surrounding pain management at end of life.   Pain at End of Life  addresses, in fifth grade, non-medical terminology:  pain as it relates to the dying process fear of overdosing and addiction standardized dosages around the clock administration laxatives uses of morphine sedation as it relates to dying supplemental therapies
Booklet - How Do I Know You? Dementia At The End Of Life -  Caring for someone with dementia presents different challenges than caring for people with other health care issues. It doesn’t “play by the rules” that signify approaching death from disease or old age. This booklet outlines the issues and progress that a person with dementia will probably follow.
“A Time To Live” is literature for the newly diagnosed with a poor prognosis and/or the palliative care patient; for anyone faced with the unpredictability of their future due to living with a life threatening illness. It offers guidance for living and explains comfort control, nutrition, sleep, pain medications, overdosing and addiction possibilities as they relate to a serious illnesses as well as the fear of death that we all bring to this final experience.
“My Friend, I Care” is a booklet intended for the newly grieving. It addresses the normalcy of grieving and stages of grief while offering suggestions for moving forward into living. The grieving process is as foreign to us as death. The experience is forced upon us by life situations that have been beyond our control. We become angry, depressed, fearful and anxious. We do not know that all these feelings together represent grief; a normal, natural response to the loss of someone or something.
Barbara Karnes, RN End of Life Series Brought to you by HCP Training
The Tree of Life: End of Life Education, A Coloring Booklet and Family Tree
I Am Standing Upon the Seashore: End of Life Education, A Coloring Booklet
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With over 30 million sold the "Little Blue Book" is the first, most beloved and widely used resource of its kind. Written by American hospice pioneer Barbara Karnes, RN, Gone From My Sight explains the signs of approaching death from disease and old age.