SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREAHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE NURSES ASSOCIATION
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VITAL talk. Communication When you pay attention to the way you set up a conversation, many problems will take care of themselves. Here, we’ve collected a handful of the fundamental skills we use constantly: Ask-Tell-Ask, Tell me more, Asking permission.
Life & Death in Assisted Living
A Patient care program from Sutter Care that changes the personal
experience of advanced illness. Reduces hospitalization and ER visits;
improves pain management; lower. [ 3 min, 47 sec ]
6-On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your pain [ 2 min, 2 sec ]
Louisiana’s infamous maximum security prison, is “home" for over 5,000 inmates, most of whom are expected to grow old and die behind bars. Yet, since 1998, a hospice program has been underway that has made better dying possible for those in its care, while having a positive effect on the general prison population.
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Our healthcare workers have provided serious illness and end of life care at unprecedented levels over the last year. Just looking at the numbers will never give you the full picture of what’s happened on the frontlines during COVID-19.
Palliative Care: One Couple's Story of Living While Dying
A short film offering a firsthand perspective of the brutality of the pandemic inside a Covid-19 I.C.U. and sometimes it's best to listen then try to 'fix it'.
➚ These are a series of videos that is a communication skills training program to integrate palliative care into the ICU by training and supporting bedside nurses.
A Good Death Each individual has their definition of what a good death should be.
| The Power of Words Change the words, you can change the world.
What matters at end of life Palliative care specialist BJ Miller helps patients face their own deaths realistically, comfortably, and on their own terms. Miller is cultivating a model for palliative care organizations around the world, and emphasizing healthcare’s quixotic relationship to the inevitability of death.
The Pause This video demonstrates a brief acknowledgement of the patient's humanity just after death has been declared in the critical care setting.
Video depicting a nurse practitioner performing a history and assessment on an inpatient complaining of nausea and vomiting.
Decisions About Healthcare Examples of treatment options in older adults.
Set to music, loved ones hold signs to reflect their emotions of loss.
The Johns Hopkins Breast Center holds retreats for stage IV breast cancer survivors and the result is a weekend experience that has been transformational for those who attend as a patient, caregiver, or medical provider.This powerful video illustrates stories of the patients and their spouses and what this retreat means for them.
A depiction of this complex world if the world had 100 people. Watch or for a shorter version |
Frontline follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. The film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients. [ 54 min, 11 sec ] Watch
Order A light humored brief video, made by the Conversation Project, on decisions to make regarding choosing a person to speak on your behalf when you are not able to speak for yourself. ✔ Conflicts exist daily whether it be between coworkers or with patients and families.
A documentary of LGBT aging and the issues they may face.
This powerful video brings to light stories
of parents who have lost a child to illness, to accidental death and to
suicide. All the stories are told in print on the screen in black &
white. Reading the text of the featured individual's thoughts and
experiences gives voice to each story. This unique narrative method
combined with the musical score provides an excellent opportunity to
focus on particular aspects of loss and grief.
Final Blessing This video program examines the spiritual dimensions in the lives of the terminally ill. Scenes used for this modules starts with ocean in Ireland followed by Dr. Michael Kearney describing hospice in Ireland with a palliative care unit. The scenes also include interviews and discussions with patients and staff about end-of-life care and the discoveries of the potential for peace and healing. |
Nurses are Leading the Way in this Care
Angola
Prison Hospice- Opening the Door 
Death, Through a Nurse’s Eyes
Death - It's not about the Nail
Through the Eyes of a Caregiver - A Hospice and Palliative Care Reflection
IMPACT-ICU (Integrating Multidisciplinary Palliative Care into the ICU
Assessing Depression Assessment of a patient experiencing depression.
"Please Don’t Go" 
If the World Was a Village of 100 People
Being Mortal 
Testimonial Conflict