Staff Education

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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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
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 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.
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
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.


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