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Mandate palliative care certification for all volunteers and health care workers--asap!

Posted by MIchael Hahn on September 6, 2010 at 9:23am
I have a crusade to help get all health care workers certified in palliative care. This will be similar to the requirement for CPR and advanced life support certification. Even volunteers should be officially certified.

Few doctors, nurses and other health care workers are educated or skilled in providing hospice to terminally ill patients, despite the fact that about 80% of people die in a health care facility. The solution is to mandate certification.

I have a website at http://www.asap-care.org that explains this campaign.

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  • Debra Heinzelman September 28, 2010 at 2:40pm
    I would be very grateful to receive a synopsis of your replies. Thank you. debheinz@hotmail.com
  • Frances Shani Parker September 6, 2010 at 11:18am
    Your assessment about people in the healthcare field not being educated enough on palliative care is so true. Only two days ago, I did a blogpost on this very problem. Research was done with oncology nurses and palliative care involving cancer patients: http://hospiceandnursinghomes.blogspot.com/2010/09/oncology-nurses-...

    Most of the oncology nurses interviewed focused on symptom management and made no distinction between hospice and palliative care. Palliative care was viewed as care only for patients near the end of life. I have included the video "What is Palliative Care?" at the blogpost and on this website to make the distinction clearer.

    Regarding palliative care certification for all healthcare workers, that is certainly one solution. More education is definitely needed in order for patients to be treated appropriately.

    Frances Shani Parker, Author
    "Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes”
    http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Dead-Right-Hospice-Volunteer/dp/1932...

    “Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog”
    http://hospiceandnursinghomes.blogspot.com/
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