PSW Textbook & Workbook Package | Print

PSW Textbook and Workbook Print Package equips learners to provide palliative and end-of-life care for any person and their family. Includes:

Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers – Textbook Edition
ISBN 978-1-926923-16-1
Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers – Workbook
ISBN 978-1-926923-17-8

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The PSWs Essentials Print Package provides students with the resources they need to meet competencies and to confidently and competently provide care for a dying person and their family. the Life and Death Matters resources in a convenient online format. Students can learn at their pace, on their schedule, using the:

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
Podcasts — Strengthen communication skills, learn best practice skills with podcasts. Featuring succinct, and engaging role-plays, and informative talks on key palliative care topics.
Videos — Visually engaging videos help establish foundational knowledge of palliative care skills, principles, and practices. This on-demand education provides the ABCs of HPC! Convenient 24/7 access to videos will build the capacity to provide compassionate hospice and palliative care.

Learners will gain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to feel confident and competent when providing palliative and end-of-life care.

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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!