Teaching Presentations

"Managing Dyspnea in Hospice Palliative Care" Preview

Teaching Content

• Introduction to the feelings of dyspnea through a simulation experience
• Debrief of simulation experience and development of vocabulary for expressing feelings of dyspnea
• Medical definitions of dyspnea
• Awareness raising about current undertreatment of this symptom and the consequences of undertreatment
• Strategies for recognizing and assessing dyspnea
• Strategies for providing comfort with dyspnea
• Strategies for preventing dyspneic episodes

Emphasis is on developing communication skills to understand the needs of the patient and to work with their concerns for this difficult symptom.

Teaching Presentation Package is $29.95