Study Guide for Health Care Workers

Questions and Activities for health care workers learning hospice palliative care strategies

Learning hospice palliative care skills and strategies means learning to talk about death and dying. This workbook guides students through an examination of their own beliefs and expectations about death and caring for the dying, in preparation for learning about hospice care. More than just questions and answers, this workbook lead students to understand the philosophy and principles of hospice care, to acknowledge how hospice palliative care is different, and guides them to integrate strategies for providing excellent care of the dying.

Structured to the health care worker's expected role and responsibilities in the health care team.

Completing these activities improves the acquisition of skills and strategies by providing opportunities for students to question, practice and reinforce the principles of hospice palliative care.

• Example - Beliefs and Baggages - Delirium
• Example - Concepts and Content - Anorexia
• Example - Integration and Application - Introduction

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Excerpt from the Introduction:

Introduction to the Study Guide for Health Care Workers

The goal of Life and Death Matters is to create engaging educational resources that will help caregivers develop the “essential” knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide
excellent care for people who are dying.
This workbook is specifically written for health care workers. If you are using this as part of a “class” you may be assigned sections to complete, participate in small group discussion/role plays etc. If using this as a self study guide I encourage you to use it in whatever way helps you to reflect on your own beliefs, interact with the concepts and content, and apply theory in practice. You may request input from a mentor, gather a study group to facilitate learning, and/or request clinical supervision to assist in implementation.
If you are interested, please send your feedback, what was helpful, not helpful, and any suggestions for improvement to us at info@lifeanddeathmatters.ca. We are also happy
to collect your stories!
Many thanks to Terry Downing, Kelly Townsend and Elizabeth Causton who contributed to the development of this workbook.
This workbook is dedicated to all health care workers (e.g. personal support workers, community health workers, health care assistants, nurses aides, etc.) who work in diverse locations, sometimes in very difficult situations, and are indeed the eyes, ears and hands of the health care team!

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