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This session was recorded at NHPCO’s 11th Clinical Team Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

So often the focus in hospice is (appropriately) on what we can do to help the patient and family. But in our enthusiasm to help them, what can be overlooked is what the hospice patient can do for those of us who are left behind. What can we learn from them? In-depth interviews with 104 hospice patients receiving care through Alive Hospice in Nashville, Tennessee, provided inspiring insight into what really matters in life when viewed through the lens of the “soon departed.” Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of St. Christopher’s Hospice outside London, England, said “the community needs the dying to make it think of eternal issues and to make it listen.” We listened and heard.

Objectives:

• Discuss the perspective of hospice patients as they near the end of life
• Examine your own personal attitudes toward living and dying so that you will be better able to assist patients as well as to learn from them
• Design a process for assuring that the broad voice of the patient is both valued and heard

Bob Fisher, PhD and Judy Fisher

Dr. Bob Fisher has previously served at universities in the roles of professor, business school dean and vice president of academic affairs and currently serves as president of Belmont University in Nashville (www.belmont.edu). He is a Fulbright Scholar and serves in numerous volunteer roles in support of Nashville’s public schools and as past chair of the Greater Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.

Judy Fisher has filled the roles of mother, middle school science teacher and, currently, the campus-wide coordinator of interior construction and exterior landscaping/lighting at Belmont University. Judy conducted the large majority of the interviews for this project. She is active in community service where she serves on several non-profit boards including the American Lung Association, the Nashville Opera and, most notably, the board of Alive Hospice.

The Fishers have spoken to more than 100 groups on this topic including the Duke University End of Life Institute, Vanderbilt University resident physicians, and provided the opening keynote presentation for NHPCO’s 2008 conference in Dallas.

Bob and Judy Fisher have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

You will have access to this course for 90 days from the date of purchase.

Course Release Date: 10/12/10

Course Expiration Date: 10/12/13

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Physician: The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

NHPCO designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.