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End-of-Life Care Practitioner Program

Primary Author: Metta Institute

This is a comprehensive one-year course that includes thematic group sessions (see syllabus), individual faculty mentoring, field visits, independent study, journaling, and supervised fieldwork with the dying in the participant's local community.

The "course is designed to provide essential clinical competencies, strengthen individual capacity for compassionate service, and enhance spiritual development". Healthcare professionals (including nurses, physicians, social workers), educators, psychotherapists, clergy, or chaplains, and hospice professionals are encouraged to apply.

Date Last Modified 08/24/2009 Continuing Education course

End of Life: Helping With Comfort and Care

Primary Author: National Institute on Aging

This booklet "provides an overview of issues commonly facing people caring for someone nearing the end of life. It can help you work with health care providers to complement their medical and caregiving efforts."

Date Last Modified 02/14/2008 Report/Document/Book chapter

Finding Meaning in Medicine

Primary Author: Karin Evans, Author

Article from the Fall/Winter 2006-07 issue of GreaterGood Magazine, describing several programs from throughout the country intended to reconnect physicians with the human dimension of their work.

Date Last Modified Article

Frank Ostaseski: Compassionate End-of-Life Care

Primary Author: Diane Rehm, WAMU 88.5 FM

60-minute interview from the Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio. Provided as streaming audio through the RealPlayer.

"A founder of the nation's first Buddhist hospice talks about the practice of mindful, compassionate care of the dying. Frank Ostaseski highlights the lessons learned near death that might encourage living fully."

Date Last Modified 06/03/2005 Audio file (MP3, etc.)

Health Care & Spirituality: Listening, Assessing, Caring

Primary Author: Richard B. Gilbert, The World Pastoral Care Center

This book is an anthology covering healthcare professionals and the healthcare work place. It includes chapters on:

- The Roman Catholic patient
- The Jewish patient
- The Native American patient
- The Male patient
- The Female patient
- The Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgendered patient
- The Chronically Ill patient
- The HIV-AIDS patient
- The Alzheimer's patient
- The Obstetrics patient
- The Trauma patient
- The Addicted patient
- The Victim of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Date Last Modified 01/01/2000 Book