Description:
Caring for patients and their loved ones at the end of life is challenging both clinically and emotionally. This presentation provides a realistic look at potential sources of stress and burnout that may be experienced by hospice staff and volunteers. The handouts included with this presentation provide creative and useful tools for personal reflection and collaborative interdisciplinary discussion.

Objectives:

• Identify two consequences to violating professional boundaries.
• List three 'red flags' that one might recognize in themselves or others if they were having boundary issues.
• Name a risk and a benefit to working in hospice, with dying patients.
• List three symptoms or consequences that one might recognize in themselves or others if they were experiencing increased stress.
  
  ****Side Note 4: Hospice Education Network, provider #1182, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Hospice Education Network maintains responsibility for the program.
  

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