PSWs Essentials Package 2nd ed:
Text, Workbook, Podcasts, Videos

PSW’s Essential Package, Second Edition equips learners to provide palliative and end-of-life care for any person and their family. Includes:

Printed text and workbook
Digital text and workbook
Podcasts
Videos

Please note that the hard copy version may take up to 2 weeks to deliver as they are print on demand! We thank you for your patience.

20% discount on orders of 10 packages or more

$149.00

Published Date

July 1, 2020

Length

252 + 80

Language

English

Format

Print & Online

Publisher

Life and Death Matters

The Personal Support Worker’s (PSWs) Essentials Package, Second Edition, is designed specifically to help PSWs develop their competence, confidence, and compassion for providing excellent palliative and end-of-life care. This package of resources is suitable for all front line caregivers, including health care workers (HCWs), health care assistants (HCAs), resident care aide (RCAs), personal care aide (PCAs), continuing care aide (CCAs), and other frontline caregivers working under different titles in Canada and the United States. The PSWs Essentials Package, Second Edition features:

Textbook—Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers, Second Edition—Full colour textbook provides a holistic approach to palliative care. Developed to support PSWs to meet new palliative care competencies, and to confidently and competently provide compassionate, culturally-safe palliative and end-of-life care for any person and their family. ISBN 978-1-926923-16-1
Workbook, Revised—Full colour, hard-copy workbook with a wide range of exercises and activities. Learners build self-awareness and best practices in communicating, develop skills in providing physical comfort and psychosocial care, supporting through the last days and hours. ISBN 978-1-926923-17-8

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PSW Textbook

Chapter 1: Understanding Dying and a Palliative Approach
- People are Mortal, and 100% of us die
- Changes in the way People Die
- Hospice and Palliative Care Begins
- What is Palliative Care
- A Palliative Approach to Care
- Every HCP is Responsible for Care of the Dying Person
Chapter 2: Preparing to Care
- Dying is a Journey – Supporting the Person on Their Journey
- Preparing for the Journey by Sorting Your Baggage
- Supporting an Appropriate Death
- Collaborating with the Team to Build a Safe Environment for Health Care
- Developing Best Practices in Palliative Care
- Preparing to Care by Building a Professional and Ethical Practice
Chapter 3: Using Standardized Tools
- Gathering Information
- Tools for Gathering Information
- Communicating with the Team
- IDEA: Ethical Decision-Making Framework
Chapter 4: Supporting Physical Comfort
- Part 1: Principles and Practices
  - Principles for Supporting Physical Comfort
  - Principles for Using Medications to Support Physical Comfort
  - Medications for Pain Relief
  - Principles for Using Opioids to Manage Pain
  - Fears and Misunderstandings Using Opioids
  - Common Side Effects of Opioids
  - Supporting Physical Comfort with Traditional Healing and Medicines
  - Supporting Physical Comfort with Complementary and Alternative Therapies
  - Basket of Comfort Measures
- Part 2: Common Symptoms
  - Anorexia and Cachexia
  - Changes in Bowel and Bladder Function
  - Dehydration
  - Delirium
  - Depression
  - Difficult Breathing
  - Fatigue
  - Mouth Discomfort
  - Nausea and Vomiting
  - Pain
Chapter 5: Providing Psychosocial Care
- The Holistic Nature of Psychosocial Care
- Transitions with Life-Limiting Illnesses
- Transitions for People Dying with Dementia
- Supporting the Psychosocial Needs of the Dying Person and Family
- Supporting the Dying Person’s Wishes Through to Death
- Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
- Supporting People Experiencing Loss and Grief
- Supporting Children Whose Loved One is Dying
Chapter 6: Caring in the Last Days and Hours
- Preparing to Care
- Physical Changes and Psychosocial Implications
- When Death Occurs
Chapter 7: Caring for You
- The Need for Self-Care
- Self-Care – Buffering the Effects of Caregiving
- Self-Care Practices for Caregivers

PSW Workbook

Chapter 1: Understanding Dying and a Palliative Approach
Chapter 2: Preparing to Care
Chapter 3: Using Standardized Tools
Chapter 4: Supporting Physical Comfort
Chapter 5: Providing Psychosocial Care
Chapter 6: Caring in the Last Days and Hours
Chapter 7: Caring for you!

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