Symptom Management – "It's not being dead, it's the dying I fear!"
Online inter-professional engaging three week course starts November 10th. Learning activities include video, podcasts, readings, forum postings and teleconference. Due dates help us study and discuss together, but flexibility allows for room to adapt when needed. I am delighted that participants include: a student from Tanzania, a few PSW instructors, a nurse and at least […]
Joy Berger – MusicoftheSoul.com
I met Joy at the ADEC conference in Miami in the late spring. She is bright, energetic, brainy, AND to top that all off, she sings – and she loves to sing. Her book, ‘Music of the Soul” links with her website of the same name. Check out the site if you want to understand […]
Education day with NACC, "Care of the Dying Person and their Family: Essentials in Hospice Palliative Care"
Exciting day yesterday. 100 instructors attended the NACC PSW Instructor Development Day session introducing them to the new Module 14. Imagine my delight at the idea that I introduced them to materials that they will now go back and teach their students. Wow. That is great. The education section of the blog will focus on […]
Orientation: The new NACC PSW Module 14 "Care of the Dying….
I was honoured a year ago when the National Association of Career Colleges announced they had approved our resources (Essentials in Hospice Palliative Care) for use in the Personal Support Worker (PSW) program. Earlier this year I was thrilled to collaborate with Linda Von Tettenborn and members of the PSW Advisory Committee to write their […]
