Essential Tools for Talking With Family Caregivers
Presented by Joy Goldsmith and Elaine Wittenberg
Financial: Elaine Wittenberg receives compensation from MedBridge for the production of this course. She has no other relevant financial relationships.
Nonfinancial: Joy Goldsmith has no competing nonfinancial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
Nonfinancial: Elaine Wittenberg has no competing nonfinancial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
This series provides communication strategies to enable providers and professionals in hospice and palliative care, as well as those working with patients with chronic and complex illnesses, to experience empowered communication with family caregivers. The chapters will offer basic tools to support communication with family caregivers and include resources to utilize as a patient’s condition changes. Interaction tools for difficult exchanges within family systems, pathways to discuss patient decline, and communication to reduce family grief are additional chapters in this offering. As the stress of family members can increase in relation to illness, providers and professionals need communication scaffolding that provides a pathway to connect even when conflict and grief are high.
Learning Outcomes
- Define the term caregiver in the context of health communication
- Identify ways to partner with family caregivers to support patient care
Meet your instructors
Joy Goldsmith
Joy Goldsmith, PhD, conducts research about health communication science in the context of healthcare provider training and serious and chronic illness. CommunicateComfort.com, a longtime initiative of Dr. Goldsmith, offers a range of research interventions and education/training curricula for healthcare providers. Storyboard…
Elaine Wittenberg
Elaine Wittenberg holds a PhD in communication from the University of Oklahoma and has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles on hospice and palliative care communication. She is coauthor of seven books pertaining to palliative care, family communication, and nursing, three of which have been awarded Book of the Year…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Talking With the Family Caregiver
This microlearning course presents four tools for establishing the family caregiver as a member of the hospice/palliative care team. By encouraging family caregivers to become and feel prepared, to learn about and understand the care plan, and to share their concerns, providers highlight the central role of family caregivers in patient care. Partnering with the caregiver includes emphasizing the importance of caregiver self-care.
More courses in this series
Essential Tools for Talking With Family Caregivers
Joy Goldsmith and Elaine Wittenberg
Deep Listening: Reflexive Skills for Working With Families
Joy Goldsmith and Elaine Wittenberg
Optimizing Communication to Reduce Family Grief
Joy Goldsmith and Elaine Wittenberg
Strategies for Navigating Conflict With Family
Joy Goldsmith and Elaine Wittenberg
Care Plans: Helping Family Understand Decline in a Patient
Joy Goldsmith and Elaine Wittenberg
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