Ep.71 Knowledge and Comfort: Strategies for Enhancing Your Hospice Experience with Janet Burns Holliday DD, MSM, MSN, RN, BC-NE, CDP

Nov 21, 2023

Ep.71

Knowledge and Comfort: Strategies for Enhancing Your Hospice Experience with Janet Burns Holliday DD, MSM, MSN, RN, BC-NE, CDP

Enhancing your hospice experience as a family begins with a thoughtful exploration of the principles and services inherent in hospice care. This compassionate approach to end-of-life support, while it’s undoubtedly beneficial, can be challenging when families are unaware of how it works and how to navigate this delicate journey. It is, therefore, imperative to educate yourselves about the comprehensive support available and the unique role hospice plays in tandem with existing health services. By understanding the holistic nature of hospice care, you can align your expectations and foster a collaborative environment that enhances the quality of life for your loved one during this critical phase. It will also empower you as a family to navigate the complexities with a sense of awareness and preparedness, ultimately contributing to a more meaningful and compassionate hospice experience.

Join this conversation with Janet Burns Holliday as she shares her experience with hospice care and strategies to help you enhance your individual and family experience. Janet is a registered nurse and value-driven leadership coach, trainer, and consultant. Janet is also passionate about equipping healthcare professionals who are feeling overworked, underappreciated, undervalued, and overwhelmed. She specializes in helping Health care professionals build their dreams, accelerate the results, and create richer and more fulfilling lives using a structured, tested process. Janet is also an author, trainer, speaker, and coach, and her 40 years of nursing experience includes education, training, and more.

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Key Highlights from the Episode;

[00:01] Episode intro and a quick bio of the guest, Janet Burns Holliday

[01:46] Meet Janet and learn more about what she has been doing

[02:52] How education and increasing education helps

[03:37] Janet’s perspective on patient and family education

[04:47] Janet’s Hospice story and experience

[06:33] What Janet has found working in hospice that you should know

[07:21] Janet’s personal story and her renewed experience with hospice

[10:22] Things you can do as a family to improve your hospice experience

[11:56] The role of a death doula in the hospice care

[15:30] The self-care plan buzzword and focusing on the DASH

[19:22] Forgiveness and Janet's forgiveness exercise that have stuck with her

[21:42] Self-care tips and strategies that last with us longer

[23:30] Janet’s speaking and coaching work and how you can work with her

[26:54] Janet’s final words of encouragement to the listeners

[27:29] Ending show and calls to action

Notable Quotes

● Education improves the quality of care for the patient and the residents; the outcomes and the experience are better. [02:56]

● Family education and patient education is key, and as nurses, it’s important that we validate they understand what we’re teaching them. [04:01]

● It’s important to focus on the dash because it represents the life that we’re currently living; make sure you enjoy each day of the dash. [16:51]

● Self-care is about taking care of your soul, which means something different for each of us, but the quietness of the mind is the best way to take care of yourself. [22:29]