What You’ll Discover in Lores Vlaminck Care When There is No Cure for Patients with End Stage Diseases
- Faculty:
- Lores Vlaminck
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 29 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and video
- Copyright:
- Nov 30, 2018
Description
Preserving a patient’s legacy – Harold’s story…
Harold was a patient with He had months to live from metastatic bowel cancer. His life was a culmination of many years spent transforming farmland into a village that he loved. Harold valued this legacy very highly. He created large posters of photographs and used his carpentry skills in order to make a model of the entire town. He was a hospice visitor and his sole focus was to teach his caregivers about the legacy. with His passing.
His caregivers began videotaping him sharing the story of his village – but that wasn’t enough for Harold. His permission was granted and a local television station was set up to cover the model, the photos and the stories behind them. Harold was never mentioned by the TV crew. Harold was thrilled and at peace when the video was broadcast on the local TV station. His legacy was preserved when he died shortly after.
This is a compelling recording multiple case studies Harold’s will help you with Examples of what you can do when caring for Caring for the terminally-ill for patients with End stage disease requires exceptional compassion and extreme sensitivity. To provide expert and holistic care, healthcare professionals should have a full toolbox. Innovative interventions that improve the quality of your life
Every end-stage disease is unique. for The patient, their family and the healthcare professional. This recording will include specific strategies. for Care for These are the patients.
Did you know that patients awaiting a transplant can also be in hospice care? We’ll discuss how we can do this. is done.
What can we do? for patients with COPD is the only possible solution for An exacerbation is Are you going to the ER? We offer an intervention for this.
How can we lower costs while still providing excellent patient care? We’ll give you the latest strategies, proven successful in practice.
It’s time to think out of the box.
This recording is not for you. with New tools for High quality care and support is no cure.
Handouts
| Manual Care When There is No Cure (13.5 MB) | 128 pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
The Inexact Science & Art of Disease Prognostication
- Individualized care: The importance of prognosis (science/art/intuition)
- Determining palliative care vs. hospice care
- Important conversations
- Hospice benefits
Broken Heart: Congestive Heart Failure
- Best practice: The Seattle HF Model
- Strategies for medication management
- Pain management and symptom management
- Pacemakers, ICDs and LVADs: Living better or prolonging your suffering?
Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
- Global Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Guidelines
- The COPD Assessment Test (CAT).
- Treating dyspnea: “The Pain of Non-Malignant Disease”
- The medication toolbox: Oxygen and bronchodilators as well as opioids, steroids, and other medications
Renal Disease
- Proper dialysis use
- Staging disease with Glomerular Filtration Rate
- Death prediction for hemodynamics
- Symptom burden
- Hospice underutilization
- Opiods with Dialysis
Liver Disease
- Poor prognosis indicators
- Differentiating between cirrhosis and cirrhosis is The cause
- Most useful analgesics for The pain
- Waiting for Transplantation while in hospice: Use the MELD tool
Advanced Dementia
- GDS FAST
- Pain scales
- Problems with feeding tubes – and their solutions
- Interventions in dementia and delirium for Aggression and agitation
- End state dementia
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Diagnostic tests for ALS
- Advance directives and decisions regarding life support
- Gastrophary and nutrition
- Non–invasive ventilation
- A table listing useful palliative medications and other measures
Advanced Cancer
- The importance of palliative and early care
- Spiritual needs
- Interventions and complications
- Compression of the spinal cord
- Superior vena cava syndrome
- Bowel obstruction
- Hypercalcemia
- Fungating wound/terminal Kennedy injury
Eight Warning Signs that Death is on the Horizon
The Challenges of Making Decisions
- What do people want for the end of their lives?
- Delirium vs. near death awareness
- For the mentally ill, there are many things to consider.
- Palliative sedation therapy for intractable symptoms
- Is it necessary to hydrate the dying person? Oxygen? Treatment for rales?
Moral Distress
- Uncomfortable patient/family scenarios
- Ethical dilemmas
- Medication errors
- Conflicted consciences
Faculty
Lores VlaminckRN, BSN MA, CHPN Similar seminars and products 2
Owner
Lores Consulting
Lores VlaminckRN, BSN MA, CHPN, is a consultant for Education, mentoring, mock surveys and training are available for home care, hospice, palliative, and assisted living. for staff development. Lores’ extensive professional nursing experiences span clinical practice in cardiac and intensive care, outpatient clinical services and as a founder/director of a Medicare certified home care/hospice director in greater MN. Her experience in the ‘trenches gives her an unique understanding of the difficulties and opportunities professionals face when accompanying patients and their families who are facing serious or life-threatening illnesses.-limiting illness.
Lores Provides education at the national and state levels on hospice and palliative care. is ELNEC Certified Trainer (End-This is-Life Nursing Education Consortium (modules), EPEC(Education on Palliative, and End-This is-The meaning of life Care) modules and the HPNA’s (Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association) curriculum. She is Become a member of MHCA,Minnesota Homes Care Association), MNHPC (Minnesota Network for Hospice and Palliative Care), Leading Age MN, NHPCO (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization), HPNA (Hospice Palliative Nursing Association).-MN Chapter), and Sigma Theta Tau. Additionally, Lores Also serves on two not-for-Profit long-term care boards.
A combination of grief-filled patient stories, clinical expertise, and referenced material. Lores You will find it engaging at both the intellectual and emotional levels. Participants from all over the country have shared this sentiment. LoresHumility, honesty and humor are the best qualities to show humility. for Permission to “feel what is felt.”
Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Lores Vlaminck is Principal for Lores Consulting. PESI Inc. gives her a speaking honorarium
Non-financial: Lores Vlaminck There is no non-relevant information-financial Online Viewing or Digital Download relationship to disclose.
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