Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers – Workbook 2nd Edition, Revised

This is the companion workbook, Revised version, to the textbook, Integrating A Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers, Second Edition. Updated to address current challenges in providing palliative care and integrating a palliative approach, the Revised Workbook is tailor-made to support students and Instructors. Learners develop skills and knowledge in providing compassionate, culturally safe, palliative, and end-of-life care when answering questions, responding to reflective activities and participating in group discussions and projects. In part, its success is because it draws upon a wide range of exercises to reach each learner exactly where they are. Activities include:

• Reflections
• Short answer and definition questions
• Experiential activities
• Two-person, small and large group activities
• Role-plays
• Psychosocial exercises

The goals of the workbook are to assist the learner in becoming more competent, confident, and compassionate in providing excellent care to those who are dying and their families.