Limited Time Offer - Order now and receive a bonus issue free! That’s 13 lessons for the price of 12.

Every year, hospice aides must satisfy 12 hours of in-service training. Beacon Health’s new “Hospice Aide On-the-Go™ In-service,” Volume I, delivers the training they need. Each lesson focuses on care for the terminally ill hospice patient.

Developed from our widely popular “Home Health Aide On-the-Go™ In-service” series, this premier volume provides authoritative, comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand training for self-study or the classroom.

Simply copy the pages from each lesson as needed—the only restriction is that aides receiving training must work from your office location. Each lesson provides one-hour of study on a hospice specific topic. The 12-lesson volume fulfills one year of Medicare’s annual requirement of 12 in-service hours.

Each lesson includes:

• A clearly written fact sheet about a timely, hospice-specific topic.
• A 10-question post-test to measure understanding of the subject matter.
• An answer sheet with a place for the instructor’s comments and signature.
• An illustrative, hospice-specific case study.
• Suggested supplemental learning activities.
• An attendance log and certificate of completion.

A convenient storage binder is included with your subscription.

The first five lessons, PLUS a bonus lesson, will be delivered in December and include:

Introduction to Hospice
1 - Moving the Patient
2 - Cultural Diversity
3 - Respiratory Changes in the Terminally Ill
4 - The Patient in Pain
5 - Comfort Measures

The remaining seven lessons will be delivered in April, 2009.

6 - Oral Hygiene for the Dying Patient
7 - Infection Control Primer
8 - Maintaining Skin Integrity
9 - Advanced Directives Primer
10 - The Patient’s Right to Choose
11 - Anticipatory Grief
12 - The Actively Dying Patient