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Live Webinar: Unpacking the Complex Psycho-spiritual tasks Prevalent in the Initial Phase of Dying
We are continuing with Hospice Chaplaincy’s new Professional Development Series. This week, we are offering a new live Webinar on Unpacking the Complex Psycho-spiritual tasks Prevalent in the Initial Phase of Dying. The initial phase of dying awakens unresolved key problems from both the near and distant past. Problems of dependency, passivity, narcissism, identity, and…
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Episode 1- The Hospice Chaplaincy Show
Whether you are in traffic or just making your daily rounds, here is a good show for you to listen to. In this first ever episode of the brand new “Hospice Chaplaincy Show”, Dr. Saul Ebema and his co host Joe Newton share their stories on how they became hospice chaplains and why they love…
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Understanding the stage of Active Denial
Nijole Hunter– RN One evening, I was just taking a walk in the nearby park and saw a woman sitting alone on the bench and sobbing. As I approached her, I decided to reach out to her and offer some support. She told me that she had received some bad news from her doctor. She…
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Non-Pharmacological Approaches to Anxiety and Agitation in Hospice Patients
Nijole Hunter RN (Center of Hospice) Those who work in Hospice care will encounter some major spiritual and emotional issues the terminally ill patients experience as death nears and one of the major issues is anxiety. In facing death, people typically experience a wide range of anxieties and related emotions like fear, dread, panic and…
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The Burden of Grief
Saul Ebema, DMin. The natural human response to any loss is to mourn the loss. Mourning a death gives people room to express their feelings associated with the death. Such feelings as, anger, guilt, and abandonment when expressed can lead to healing and restoration. Parkes and Weiss identified “three basic tasks of grief”[1] Emancipation from…
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Spiritual Assessment in Hospice
Lisa Jones, MDiv. The HOPE questions, were developed as a teaching tool to help chaplains begin the process of incorporating a spiritual assessment into the medical interview. These questions have not been validated by research, but the strength of this particular approach is that it allows for an open-ended exploration of an individual’s general spiritual…
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Facing Death Anxiety
Saul Ebema, DMin. Carpenito-Moyet, defines death anxiety as “the state in which an individual experiences apprehension, worry, or fear related to death and dying”[1]. In the Nursing Outcomes Classification guide, death anxiety is defined as “vague uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread generated by perceptions of a real or imagined threat to one’s existence.”[2] Death…
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