Speakers are provided to community groups and medical facilities who want to learn more about hospice care. To arrange a speaker, please call:
Brooke Gritzner
Director of Education
1-800-HOSPICE (467-7423)
—or—
Contact your local Hospice Care Consultant
1-800-HOSPICE (467-7423)
Click to download continuing ed opportunities
for 2010
Our speakers can discuss a variety of end-of-life issues, including:
- Hospice Care - An overview of hospice care services, eligibility requirements, and coverage of services and hospice-related medications and medical equipment.
- Coping Strategies - Explores the stages of grief and offers suggestions for coping with the loss of a loved one.
- Death and Dying - Addresses the emotional needs of terminally ill patients and offers methods of communicating with patients approaching death.
- End-of Life Planning - Explains how to prepare and use advance directives, along with other end-of-life planning.
- Volunteers - Volunteers make our program bloom. Explains how volunteers are an integral part of the hospice benefit and caring for our community.
- Pain and Symptom Management - Explains the compassion of providing supportive end-of-life care.
Presentations are between a half-hour and an hour depending on the time you have available for the speaker.
Listed below are a few of our presentations:
End-of-Life Care
- Hospice 101: The Basics 1 hr.
- Pain Management ½ hr.
- Spirituality at the End of Life ½ hr.
Life Planning and Decisions
- Advance Directives ½ hr.
- Communicating End-of-Life Wishes ½ hr.
- Five Wishes 1 hr.
Bereavement
- Caregiving - Taking care of Yourself 1 hr.
- Anticipatory Grief 1 hr.
- Grief - Signs & Symptoms 1 hr.
Continuing-Ed for Iowa Hospice
Participants must complete 50 minutes of education for every CEU.
Holistic Care
- Grief/ Bereavement (understanding personal and professional grief experiences)
- Touch Tone (the clinical benefits of massage and/or music therapy in end of life care)
- Care Beyond the Physical Needs (meeting the spiritual and psychosocial needs of our patients)
- The Bucket List (guiding patients and families into completing their legacy)
- Care for the Caregiver (caring for yourself while caring for others)
- Caring for the Generations (meeting the holistic needs of patients and families of different generations)
- Different Strokes for Different Folks (being culturally competent)
Clinical
- Pain Management
- Symptom Management
- Wound Care
- End Stage Neurological Diseases (may include ALS, Parkinson's, MS, Huntington's)
- End Stage Pulmonary Disease
- End Stage Cardiac Disease
- End Stage Disease Process
- Care of the Actively Dying
- Dementia
- Nutrition at the End of Life
Team Building
- The Traveling Team (a team-building process for everyone along for the ride)
- Electrifying Current (positive relationships between facilities and hospice)
Regulatory
- Avoiding Chapter 11 (getting paid while working; a look at Medicare/Medicaid billing)
- Being Hip with HIPAA (being in the groove with privacy practices)
- Pig Out (process improvement with goals; understanding hospice conditions of participation)
- It's A Bug's Life (infection risk and prevention)
- It’s Your Choice (understanding you and your patients’ advanced medical directives)
Communication
- Be Near/Be Hear (becoming a listening companion)
- Difficult Conversations (starting and completing difficult conversations regarding end of life)
Hospice 101
- Hospice Care vs. Palliative Care (discuss differences and similarities of hospice and palliative care)
- Yours, Mine and Ours (ethical dilemmas at the end of life)
- Rest Assured (an educational program for residents, families and the general community)
