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Shoring Up the Next Generation of Hospice Chaplains

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More professionals from a wider range of interfaith groups are entering the field, according to Shana Sullivan, bereavement coordinator of Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice. This can make recruitment and retention difficult among the next generation of the spiritual care workforce. Sullivan is also an end-of-life doula and chaplain.

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Phoenix Children’s Palliative Chief: Shift the Culture in Health Care

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Shaw’s large staff includes eight board-certified doctors, an advanced nurse practitioner, a social worker, a mental health therapist, a bereavement coordinator, a bereavement counselor, a psychologist, a nurse coordinator and a medical assistant.

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Addressing Anticipatory Grief: A Hospice Chaplain’s Perspective

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All hospices provide some form of bereavement care after a patient dies, but many families need help with anticipatory grief as well. Our nurses, as they talk about it, do lots of education as far as what the next step of decline might look like, so families arent surprised. Our nursing staff does the medical symptoms.

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Hunterdon Hospice’s Relaunches Trauma-Informed Bereavement Program

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These deaths can be traumatizing and bring on complicated grief experiences, with some individuals needing greater support compared to other types of losses, according to Laura Suozzo, licensed clinical social worker and bereavement coordinator at Hunterdon Hospice. “We Their sadness is so raw and painful.

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Bill Would Create New State-Level Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Care Program

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When you’re looking to build this service you have to have enough people to choose from, and we are really struggling right now in the nursing workforce, social workers, and other support staff – especially since the pandemic hit,” Wodatch told Hospice News. Keeping the staff’s skills honed for less demand is challenging.

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Anatomy of Hospice Grief Camps for Children

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Aside from parental losses, children who attend summer grief programs have often experienced the loss of a grandparent or a sibling, according to Jasmine Kendrick, grief counselor and social worker at Angela Hospice. That’s among the innovative programs that we’re doing to do more for families.

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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

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Bereaved families often face tremendous challenges fielding a barrage of tasks following a loved ones’ death, according to Grant Marylander, grief counselor at Trail Winds Hospice, which provides adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care. White serves as bereavement coordinator and chaplain at Kansas-based Interim HealthCare of Topeka.

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