Category: Research
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Understanding Depression in End of Life Care.
Dr. Saul Ebema
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Psychological suffering at the end of life
Lisa Ling. PSYCHOLOGICAL SUFFERING is a virtually universal experience for patients at the end of life and their families. This is because suffering exists on a continuum and has many sources: grief about current and anticipated losses, fear and uncertainty about the future, unresolved issues from the past, and concerns about loved ones. Preexisting and…
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When Cure Is No Longer an Option: Rethinking Hopelessness and the Role of Spiritual Care
Carol Taylor, PhD, RN Abstract Increasingly in the U.S., health care clinicians fail to recognize and accept when curative goals are no longer realistic. At this point, futile efforts at cure can fuel false hopes in patients and their loved ones. The clinician’s need to be “doing something” may result in treatment that violates the…
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Hospice Chaplain Documentation Webinar
If you are a hospice chaplain in need of polishing up your visit documentation, this is a webinar for you. This webinar will be on Monday February 28th at 4:00pm Central Standard Time. The registration fee is only $40. The most scrutinized area for hospices by the U.S. centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is…
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How you can help children and teens deal with grief
Dr. Saul Ebema
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Becoming comfortable with that nervous call from the hospice nurse
Michael Giles, LCSW.
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Emotional Intelligence and the Hospice Chaplain
Dr. Saul Ebema
Hospice Chaplaincy 