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Closure Primary Author: Jonathan Weinkle, Jewish Healthcare Foundation Closure is an initiative to change expectations for end-of-life. Our goal is to empower consumers and healthcare professionals with easy-to-access, simple-to-understand information and resources to make educated decisions about end-of-life care. The Closure website includes blogs, listings of resources, news items, and the Closure 101 curriculum. Closure 101 is a curriculum of educational lessons dealing with an array of complex end-of-life issues including prognosis, advance planning, medical decision making, and hospice and palliative care. These difficult concepts are explained in a way that is designed to make sense to consumers. The curriculum contains 12 easy-to-follow lessons that can be viewed online or used by health educators to teach in-person. In addition to the lessons, the site contains questionnaires and information sheets that can help guide a person through the decision-making process. Guidelines for creating a Closure 101 program are available on the site. Date Last Modified 04/04/2011 Website, Article, Continuing Education course, Course curriculum, Manual/guide

Complementary Spiritual Practices in Professional Chaplaincy Primary Author: Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) A resource for chaplains seeking to learn more about complementary pastoral resources, practices, and interventions. This pdf document contains a list of practices across the mind/body/spirit continuum that a chaplain could do in his or her ministry. For each practice the purported benefits are listed along with references to research about the practice. This is a work in progress and suggestions are requested. Date Last Modified 06/01/2009 Manual/guide, On-the-job tool

A Dictionary of Patients' Spiritual & Cultural Values for Health Care Professionals Primary Author: HealthCare Chaplaincy This is "a guide that is meant to describe beliefs and practices generally found within a particular cultural or religious group." The purpose is to help healthcare providers meet the Joint Commission's requirement for addressing and maintaining patient rights for their cultural, religious, spiritual, and personal values, and religious and other spiritual practices to be accommodated. Sections include: Western Religions: Comparison of Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions; Judaism; Christianity; Christian Science; Eastern Orthodox; Jehovah's Witness; Mormonism; Protestantism; Roman Catholicism; Seventh-day Adventism; Islam (Muslim); Sunni vs. Shiite Eastern Religions: Buddhism; Hinduism; Sikhism Other Religions: Baha'i; Native American; Rastafarian Movement; Santeria; Voodoo; Wicca Major American Cultures: African-American/Black Culture; Hispanic-American Culture; Native American Culture African Cultures: Somali-American Culture; Caribbean Cultures; Cuban-American Culture; Haitian-American Culture; Jamaican-American Culture Middle East/South Asian Cultures: Arab-American Culture; East Indian-American Culture; Iranian-American Culture East Asian Cultures: Chinese-American Culture; Filipino-American Culture; Japanese-American Culture; Korean-American Culture; Vietnamese-American Culture Euro-Asian Cultures: Gypsy/Roma Culture; Russian-American Culture Date Last Modified 09/01/2009 Manual/guide, Report/Document/Book chapter

The HeART of Empathy: Using the Visual Arts in Medical Education Primary Author: Florence Gelo, Drexel University College of Medicine The Heart of Empathy video, and its accompanying Facilitator's Guide, captures Dr. Gelo's technique of using the visual arts to teach medical students and residents how to emotionally prepare for and deal with their patients' suffering and dying. As medical students and residents view the suffering portrayed in the paintings, the facilitator helps them to articulate and recognize their emotional reactions. Through focused observation and expression of feelings in a non-judgmental humanistic setting, students may cultivate the ability to acknowledge and address the emotional lives of their patients. Inspired by her experience as a Philadelphia Museum of Art tour guide, Dr. Gelo began to notice the emotional impact of paintings on the viewer, and imagined their use as a powerful teaching resource in medical education. For five years, Dr. Gelo has introduced small groups of Drexel University College of Medicine students and residents to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where they view and discuss paintings that depict death and dying. This unique experience has been captured in The Heart of Empathy. The accompanying Facilitator's guide includes program models, resources and suggestions for classroom use. Date Last Modified 11/01/2008 Video, Faculty Development materials, Manual/guide

A Multi-Faith Resource for Healthcare Staff Primary Author: NHS Education for Scotland Guide developed to provide healthcare workers with knowledge, awareness, and sensitivity to the needs of the diverse faith and belief groups they may encounter in their every day work. For each faith tradition or cultural group included information is provided on: attitudes to healthcare staff and illness; religious practices; diet; fasting; washing and toilet; ideas of modesty and dress; death customs; birth customs; family planning; and blood transfusions, transplants and organ donation. Date Last Modified 11/28/2006 Manual/guide