Patient/Family Education

"I wish I had read these booklets sooner" is something we hear often. By sitting down with your families and reading these together, you establish consistent education within your agency. These materials don't replace verbal teaching; they supplement, enhance, and reinforce the care you provide. Start using them today to ensure your families receive the best possible support.

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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.


End of Life Guideline Series: A Compilation of Barbara Karnes Booklets
$15.00
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.
Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience
$4.00
“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.
The Eleventh Hour: A Caring Guideline for the Hours to Minutes Before Death
$4.00
“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.
A Time to Live: Living with A Life-Threatening Illness
$4.00
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.
How Do I Know You? Dementia at the End of Life
$4.00
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.
New Rules for End of Life Care DVD Kit: A Guide on the Stages of Death
$29.00