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David Kessler – Understanding the Needs of the Dying: Bringing Hope, Comfort and Love to Life’s Final Chapter

Name: David Kessler - Understanding the Needs of the Dying: Bringing Hope, Comfort and Love to Life's Final Chapter
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Faculty:: David Kessler
Duration:: 5 Hours 44 Minutes
Format:: Audio and Video
Copyright:: Apr 18, 2016

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Featuring David Kessler

Renowned End-of-Life Expert, Author Featured on “Dr. Oz”, “Oprah & Friends”, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, People Magazine, “Entertainment Tonight”, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times

David Kessler, best-selling author, collaborator with the legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and well-known expert on palliative care, hospice and end-of-life issues will provide you the newest information on death, grief and deathbed phenomena … real, tested, engaging information you will not find anywhere else.

Delve deeper into the mysteries of life and death exploring key topics

New studies on deathbed visions, and the role they play in end-of-life care
Tools for sensitivity and discretion for balancing wishes of the dying and family with medical, ethical and legal considerations
Communication strategies for necessary difficult and emotion conversations
Deeper insight on how anticipatory grief shapes end-of-life experiences
Understand why children are often the forgotten grievers, and how to help
Cultural differences and new sensitivity to care
Assisted suicide

It’s guaranteed to be a seminar that will enhance your work as a caregiver and David will provide so much insight, tools, strategies and inspiring information, you’ll look forward to the next day at your work … so you can immediately begin to use all you have learned.

Handouts

Outline

Signs of Impending Death

Preparing family for physical changes
Interventions for coping with emotional changes in the family
Using near death awareness as a predictor in clinical settings

Palliative Care Model

Academic settings vs community
Physician led vs non physician led
Roles of physician, nurse, social worker, case manager, discharge planner, clergy
What’s best – hospital, home health, hospice, skilled nursing facility
Joint commission certification

Hospice

Removing barriers
How hospice can increase length of stay while decreasing hospital time
Bereavement services to enhance community partnerships

Death Related Sensory Experiences (Death Bed Visions)

Effective and ineffective models for family coping and integration
Religion in patients’ deathbed visions
Using the law to normalize the dying experience
Clinical/palliative care studies, research of near death awareness

Advance Directives

Physician order for life-sustaining treatment
Make advance directives useful and medically effective
D.N.R. (do not resuscitate) vs. A.N.D. (allow natural death)
Code status and impact on the grieving process

Anticipatory Grief

Treatment strategies for hospice, palliative care and mental health care professionals
Tools for normalizing

Helping the Dying Patient’s Children

How the media shapes a child’s view of death
Tools for preparing a child for loss
Interventions for coping with funerals
Why children are often the forgotten grievers and how to help

The Ethics Committee and End of Life

How and when to use your ethics committee
How and why members of the end of life team can participate
Techniques for helping families get the most out of the ethics meetings
Avoid the common pitfalls of ethics committees at the end of life

Hope and Miracles

How to help families integrate desire for miracles at the end of life
Techniques for honoring hope without fostering denial

Cultural Differences

Affecting care of the dying
Tools for successfully bridging the gap with healthcare providers and families

The Question of Assisted Suicide

Understanding the current debate
The realities of withdrawing care vs. assisted suicide
Learn techniques for addressing patient’s requests for assisted suicide within the facilities and health care provider’s beliefs system

Faculty

David Kessler Related seminars and products: 13

David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on healing and loss. His experience with thousands of people on the edge of life and death has taught him the secrets to living a happy and fulfilled life.

He is the author of six bestselling books. His new book is Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. His first book, The Needs of the Dying, a #1 best-selling hospice book, received praise by (Saint) Mother Teresa. He co-authored two bestsellers with the legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: On Grief and Grieving and Life Lessons. His most newly released book is You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After Breakup, Divorce or Death with Louise Hay. He worked with Elizabeth Taylor, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Marianne Williamson when their loved ones faced life-challenging illnesses. He also worked with late actors Anthony Perkins and Michael Landon. David’s work has been discussed in the Los Angeles Times, Business Week and Life Magazine, and has been featured on “Brené Brown, CNN-Cross Fire”, NBC, Fox, PBS, “Dr. Oz” and “Entertainment Tonight”. David is a contributing writer on Oprah.com, Dr. Oz’s Sharecare.com, “Anderson Cooper 360” and “The Huffington Post”.

David has a master’s degree in Health Care Bioethics from Loyola Marymount University, he did his undergraduate work at University of Southern California and is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives. He is a certified AMA/EPEC (Education for Physicians) trainer. He also is the founding chairperson for the Hospital Association of Southern California Palliative Care Committee and spent the last decade as a C-suite executive in a 650 bed – three hospital system in Los Angeles County.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: David Kessler receives compensation as Vice President of Patient Support Services for Citrus Valley Health Partners. He is an author for Simon & Schuster – New York and receives royalties. Mr. Kessler receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: David Kessler has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.

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