This workbook was created specifically for personal support workers and anyone who provides direct care. As a companion workbook to "Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Worker's. Second Edition," this book will help you to solidify knowledge and develop skills in providing palliative and end-of-life care, and integrating a palliative approach. You will develop palliative care best practices and learn ways to provide culturally safe care to support a dying person and their family, including providing care with a trauma informed approach. The workbook is filled with creative learning activities designed to develop self-awareness, address bias and racism, and build palliative care knowledge and skills for supporting physical comfort and providing psychosocial care for the dying person and family. Examples of activities include reflective writing, short answer and true/false questions, mind mapping, creating vision boards, small and large group discussions, and role plays. Prepare yourself to care for the dying and their family by exploring your belief and biases through reflective writing developing your understanding of palliative and end of life care language, principles, and practises applying your knowledge in case scenarios, role-plays, in group discussion This is a companion resource to help you develop your capacity to provide culturally safe palliative and end of life care and integrate a palliative approach for any person with a life limiting illness.

This workbook is a companion to the text, 'Integrating A Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers.' It provides a variety of learning tools such as: exercises, activities, role-plays, puzzles, questions and discussion topics to assist the learner in becoming more competent, confident, and compassionate in providing excellent care to those who are dying and their families.

Mosby’s Canadian Textbook for the Support Worker prepares students to function in the role of support worker in community and institutional settings. The #1 text used by Support Worker programs across Canada and at Canadian-affiliated schools worldwide, the book covers the broad foundation of skills that support workers/resident care aides/health care aides need in order to perform their role safely and effectively. Comprehensive, yet easy to read, Mosby’s Canadian Textbook for the Support Worker makes learning easy with clear explanations of concepts and step-by-step presentations of procedures. Numerous full-colour illustrations, photographs, charts, and tables are combined with real-life case studies and examples to provide the reader with an outstanding learning experience. Covers key procedures for Canadian support workers – 95 in total Recognizes provincial/territorial differences in scope of practice Clear, detailed instructions in step-by-step procedures Evidence-based practice: chapter references supplied at end of book Reflects current Canadian practice and terminology Additional First Nations content Chapter summaries to aid student comprehension Rationales for all procedure steps Test Bank features higher-level taxonomies to allow testing that focuses on cognitive level Instructor’s Test Bank features higher-level taxonomies to allow testing that focuses on cognitive level And more!

This second edition of the text will equip frontline caregivers to respond to the changing needs of any person living with life-limiting illness and their family. You will learn best practice skills for participating fully as a vital member of the health care team. Integrating a Palliative Approach will increase your con­fidence and competence in providing compassionate palliative care for the dying person and their family by developing your capacity to: 1) integrate a palliative approach and support the person and family through decline and during last days and hours; 2) provide culturally safe palliative care that is free of systemic bias and racism; 3) understand and provide psychosocial care for the person and family; and 4) develop self-care practices to sustain you. This is a rare text that engages you with its warmth and heart--it is an essential resource for all frontline caregivers. "Stunning artwork, accessible text, relevant case studies, and up-to-date evidence are woven together to stimulate learning and reflection about palliative care philosophy and practice." -- David Kenneth Wright, PhD, RN, CHPCN(C), Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa "You will feel safe to explore your biases and understand Indigenous ways of knowing and being as recommended in the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action." -- Sheila Blackstock, RN, BScN, MScN, COHN PhD (c), Gitxsan First Nation, Associate Teaching Professor, Thompson Rivers University School of Nursing "The second edition of Integrating a Palliative Approach is, in fact, an essential resource for personal support workers. The book continues to be a unique resource providing comprehensive information regarding physical and psychosocial needs." -- Betty Ferrell, PhD, FAAN, FPCN Professor and Director, Nursing Research, City of Hope Medical Center; Principal Investigator, the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project "The section on self-care, an area that students may feel they do not need to study, contains concrete information on its importance and ideas for developing a plan for self-care." -- Zola Goebel, Director, Sprott Shaw College, Lead Curriculum for Health Care Assistant curriculum "This text is the resource for PSW education, for workplace education and independent study." -- Pippa Hawley, B.Med, FRCPC (PM) Head, UBC Division of Palliative Care, and BC Cancer Pain and Symptom Management / Palliative Care Program Medical Leader "Kath and her team have done a wonderful job of integrating the most up-to-date frameworks for person centred care and packaged nuggets of wisdom and experience in a digestible, accessible and visually attractive package." -- Doris Barwich MD, CCFP (PC), Medical Director, British Columbia Centre for Palliative Care "This resource directly acknowledges the valuable role of the PSW as a knowledgeable and integral member of the interprofessional team, it is a 'must-have' resource for all frontline caregivers seeking ways to provide excellent care for others, while nourishing their practice for personal fulfilment." -- Andrea Leatherdale, RN, BScN, GDPI, PMEd, Professor, Practical Nursing, Centennial College "[This] edition is a beautiful balance of practical, approachable, and inspirational. The touchstones take various new competency frameworks, breaks them into easily digestible snippets and ties everything together as part of a bigger whole." -- Nadine Valk, BA, MPA, Executive Director / Directrice Générale. Champlain Hospice Palliative Care Program

Pediatric palliative care is a field of significant growth as health care systems recognize the benefits of palliative care in areas such as neonatal intensive care, pediatric ICU, and chronic pediatric illnesses. Pediatric Palliative Care, the fourth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, highlights key issues related to the field. Chapters address pediatric hospice, symptom management, pediatric pain, the neonatal intensive care unit, transitioning goals of care between the emergency department and intensive care unit, and grief and bereavement in pediatric palliative care. The content of the concise, clinically focused volumes in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series is one resource for nurses preparing for specialty certification exams and provides a quick-reference in daily practice. Plentiful tables and patient teaching points make these volumes useful resources for nurses.

Kath Murray has a love for hospice and palliative care and a love for education that is engaging, delicious, and digestible. Her passion is to provide exceptional resources to help nurses, health care workers, and personal support workers provide excellent care for the dying and their family, and to find meaning and value in doing so.

“The authors have created a brilliant, reader-centric, practical, powerful, and evidence-based guide designed for new and student nurses, yet effective for preceptors and faculty alike. Imagine a resource so engaging and effective you turn to it time and time again to inform and support your whole-person well-being.” –Teri Pipe, PhD, RN Richard E. Sinaiko Professor in Health Care Leadership School of Nursing Core Faculty, Center for Healthy Minds Distinguished Fellow, National Academies of Practice University of Wisconsin-Madison “This extraordinary book will be the voice in the ear of every young nurse who reads it throughout their career, sustaining them through the hard times and providing what it takes to be the skillful, compassionate nurses they dreamed of being.” –Bonnie Barnes, FAAN Doctor of Humane Letters (h.c) Co-founder, The DAISY Foundation “This is an astonishingly rich and relevant text that truly should be required in every nursing program. If widely adopted, this text has the potential to transform the profession.” –Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN Director, Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing As a nursing student, you’re taught to expect a variety of challenges while caring for your patients and juggling competing priorities as you begin your career. And, though you may know better, your personal well-being can become the last thing you consider in your hectic student or new-nurse life. This second edition of Self-Care for New and Student Nurses equips you to confidently face stressors now and in the future. No matter where you are in your nursing career, this book offers you multiple strategies to prioritize your own mental, physical, and emotional health. Authors Dorrie K. Fontaine, Tim Cunningham, and Natalie May showcase a group of strong contributors whose valuable tips and exercises will help you: · Find joy and a sense of mattering at work · Manage anxiety, loneliness, and depression · Address imposter syndrome, practice self-compassion, and thrive during clinicals · Cope and seek help with racial tensions, substance abuse, suicide risks, and other traumas · Spot the stressors that lead to burnout · Prioritize sleep, exercise, and nutrition · Build a toolkit of self-care techniques, including in-the-moment practices for an ideal workday · Develop a resilient mindset · Establish boundaries TABLE OF CONTENTS Section 1: Fundamentals Chapter 1: The Fundamentals of Stress, Burnout, and Self-Care Chapter 2: The Fundamentals of Resilience, Growth, and Wisdom Chapter 3: Developing a Resilient Mindset Using Appreciative Practices Section II: The Mind of a Nurse Chapter 4: Self-Care, Communal Care, and Resilience Among Underrepresented Minoritized Nursing Professionals and Students Chapter 5: Self-Care for LGBTQIA+ Nursing Students Chapter 6: Racial Trauma and Healing Chapter 7: Narrative Practices Chapter 8: Self-Care and Systemic Change: What You Need to Know Chapter 9: Strengths-Based Self-Care: Good Enough, Strong Enough, Wise Enough Section III: The Body and Spirit of a Nurse Chapter 10: Reclaiming, Recalling, and Remembering: Spirituality and Self-Care Chapter 11: Sleep, Exercise, and Nutrition: Self-Care the Kaizen Way Chapter 12: Reflections on Self-Care and Your Clinical Practice Section IV: The Transition to Nursing Practice Chapter 13: Supportive Professional Relationships: Nurse Residency Programs, Preceptors, and Mentors Chapter 14: Healthy Work Environment: How to Choose One for Your First Job Chapter 15: Self-Care for Humanitarian Aid Workers Section V: The Heart of a Nurse Chapter 16: Mattering: Creating a Rich Work Life Chapter 17: Integrating a Life That Works With a Life That Counts Chapter 18: Providing Compassionate Care and Addressing Unmet Social Needs Can Reduce Your Burnout Chapter 19: Showing Up With Grit and Grace: How to Lead Under Pressure as a Nurse Clinician and Leader Chapter 20: Coaching Yourself When Things Are Hard

Emphasising the multi-disciplinary nature of palliative care the fourth edition of this text also looks at the individual professional roles that contribute to the best-quality palliative care.

This superbly illustrated text familiarizes students with individual muscles and muscle systems and demonstrates basic clinical massage therapy techniques. More than 550 full-color illustrations of internal structures are embedded into photographs of live models to show each muscle or muscle group, surrounding structures, surface landmarks, and the therapist's hands. Students see clearly which muscle is being worked, where it is, where it is attached, how it can be accessed manually, what problems it can cause, and how treatment techniques are performed. This edition features improved illustrations of draping and includes palpation for each muscle. An accompanying Real Bodywork DVD includes video demonstrations of massage techniques from the book.