The Nursing Assistant End-of-Life Care Computerized Education Program multimedia CD provides Nursing Assistants with essential knowledge about providing quality end-of-life care.

The information was created especially for Nursing Assistants caring for patients at the end of life.  This CD contains text, audio clips, video clips, a pop-up glossary for hyperlinked words in the modules, a separate glossary for the user to skim, quizzes to check for understanding of a subject, and printable pdf files to help improve skills.

The modules included on the CD are:

• Overview of Hospice and Palliative Care
• Culture & End-of-Life Issues
• Pain Management
• Other Symptoms Management
• Nondrug Pain & Symptom Management
• Care at the Time of Dying
• Communication
• Grief & Bereavement
• Spiritual Concerns
• Ethical Issues at the End of Life
• Goals of Care
• Care of the Dying Child
• Personal & Professional Development

View Sample Modules

Several sample modules are avaiable for download/viewing.  Click the desire dlink to load the sample file.  NOTE:  the larger files will take several moments to load.

• A Patient's Story (187 kilobytes ... mp3 format)
• Non-Verbal patients (136 kilobytes ... mp3 format)
• Last Wishes (749 kilobytes ... mp3 format)
• Interventions (17 megabytes ... mpg format)
• Noisy Respirations (12 megabytes ... mpg format)
• Duties (261 kilobytes ... mp3 format)
• Selfcare (24 megabytes ... mpg format)
• Doing Your Best (572 kilobytes ... mp3 format)
• Families Say Goodbye (11 megabytes ... mpg format)