Description:
This session prepares members of the hospice interdisciplinary team to help children or grandchildren of hospice patients. This session outlines children's cognitive and emotional responses to death, and ways that hospice staff can assist families who have younger children and teens.

Objectives:

• Participant will list expected needs and worries of children whose parents are hospice patients.
• Participant will articulate how children at various developmental levels/ages are likely to understand death.
• Participant will list at least two (2) expected needs and worries of parents who are hospice patients or their spouses.
• Participant will identify at least three (3) ways that hospice staff can help families coping with life-threatening illnesses.

* CNE credits provided by the Home Care Association of Louisiana, an approved provider by the Louisiana State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

*** Hospice Education Network is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

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