A Personal Hospice Journal
A Personal Hospice Journal of Beliefs, Assumptions and Behaviors
A book on disk that helps you record your thoughts on over 160 topics relating to hospice and home care.
Journaling is an excuse for us to spend some time on our own. It encourages us to reflect on our thoughts, beliefs and behaviors so that we can decide what we would like to keep and what we would like to change.
This journal has Harry van Bommel's thoughts on the many topics outlined in the Table of Contents. They are thought based upon over 25 years in the hospice care field first as a family member caring for his parents and grandfather at home and later as a researcher, writer, teacher and mentor.
You can use this journal can be used in two ways:
1. As a learning tool.
van Bommel does not suggest reading the whole book at once. It will sound repetitive (which it has to be if one's beliefs, assumptions and behaviors are somewhat consistent). Pick a few topics that peak your interest. You can ignore his reflections and write your own right away or you may want to respond to his thoughts by agreeing, disagreeing or adding another perspective to the same thought. Remember the idea is to have some fun while examining your own beliefs, assumptions and attitudes.
There are a lot of topics to write your thoughts on. Perhaps there are too many headings. Write about those thoughts that interest you and ignore the rest. If you have summarizing thoughts that reduce your beliefs into several special thoughts; write those instead. This is your journal. Do what you like.
2. As a typical journal.
You may want to use this journal to record daily thoughts, a dream diary or any other form of journaling. The thoughts van Bommel has on each page could be just for your interest.
You might use the journal as a 'thought for the hospice day' and add your own thoughts on any workday. There is no time limit for writing in a journal. It might take you a few weeks or a few years.
NOTE: This book may make an excellent gift for a young student going into the hospice care field as this is often one of the most reflective times of their lives. It can be very helpful to those practising in the field now to help them remember what was, is and should be important to them in their ongoing efforts to fulfil the hospice philosophy of care. Lastly, the journal may be an appropriate gift to someone retiring from the field as a request that they share their thoughts with their colleagues still in the field. There is a liberating feeling when one retires that allows them to say what they truly feel without editing themselves for political, collegial or job-security reasons.
128 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 inches, ISBN 1-55307-008-9, $15 eBook, $20 paperback
Table of Contents
Preface by an Anonymous friend
Introduction
How to Use this Journal
Some thoughts on (in alphabetical order), Abilities, Abortion, Advocacy, Angels, Anxiety (anxiety attacks), Arguing, Art, Associations, Assumptions, Aunts and Uncles, Bad News, Balance, Beauty, Behavior, Bereavement, Books, Bravery, Brothers and Sisters, Burnout, Canada, Capital Punishment, Caregivers, Case Manager, Change, Chaplain, Charity, Child-like Feelings, Childhood, Children, Choices, Committees, Communication, Complaining, Complexity, Conflicts, Courage, Courtesy, Creativity, Death, Dietician, Discipline, DNR versus NDE, Duty, Education, Elders, End of Life Care, Epitaph, Ethics, Euthanasia, Evil, Excellence, Expectations, Facility Administrators, Failure, Family, Family Caregiver, Father, Fear, Flying, Friendship, Fun, Funerals, Funerals and Children, Genetics, Geography, Gifts, Giving versus Receiving Care, Global Village, God, Government funding, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Gratitude, Grieving, Growing Up, Guilt, Happiness, Hatred, Health, Health Care, Heart, Helping, Heaven, Hidden Christ, Hiking, History, Home, Homemakers, Hope, Hospice Care, Hospice History, Hospice Palliative Care, Hospitality, Hugging, Inferiority Complex, Jobs (Career), Judgement, Justice, Kindness, Knowledge, Last Hours & Days, Leadership in Hospice Care, Learn, Learning, Legal Rights, Life, Listening, Logic, Love, Managers (Management), Marriage, Math, Medication (Drugs), Meditation, Memory, Memories, Miracles, Moralizing, Morals (the Question), Morals (the Action), Mother, Music, Naiveté, Nature, Negligence, Nieces & Nephews, Nurses, Nurturing, Occupational therapists, Old, Optimism, Organizations, Pain and Symptom Control, Palliative Care, Patient-Centered Care, Parents, Peace, Peacefulness, Pedestals, Perspective, Philosophy, Phrase: I'd rather be dead , Physicians, Physiotherapists, Pleasure, Political Correctness, Politicians & Bureaucrats, Politics, Poverty, Praying, Preaching, Guiding Principle, Promises, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Public Speaking, Quality of Life, Quiet, Reading, "Real World", Resilience, Reflections, Relationships, Religion, Rights, Rituals, Saying "No", School, Self-defense, Senility, Service, Shouldn't have to be dying, Sickness, Simplicity, Sleep Therapy, Social safety net, Soul, Spirituality, Spouse, Standards of Practice, Starvation, Strength, Success, Sudden Death, Suffering, Suicide, Teaching, Terminal Sedation, Time, Training Volunteers & , Families, Truth, "Turf", Values, Violence, Violent Death, Vision, Volunteers, Volunteering, Vow, Wants, War, Wars, Wealth, Wisdom, Wonder, Words, World, World view, Writing, Youth
The Declaration of a Global Ethic
Summarizing Thoughts!
Some Thoughts for Harry
