Memories are a great gift that can continue to give to the families of hospice patients. The hospice nurse can help in preserving these memories for the family by utilization of other disciplines. Every hospice agency has volunteers that assist the patient and families.
The nurse needs the knowledge of what services are provided by the volunteers. A new program that is available to the agency is call Project Storykeeper. This is a program that has training courses and kits that help preserve the patient and families memories that was developed by Dennis Stack (n.a., 2009).
Storykeeper is a way to assist the hospice patient in the process of their life review prior to their death while they are still able to participate. Life review helps the patient and their family members to start closure.
Class, please follow the link in the reference to read about this program and post your comments and thoughts to the article.
Reference:
Become a Storykeeper, Project Storykeeper. Retrieved from:
Volunteers preserve memories for families: storykeepers record patient stories for posterity. (2009). Hospice Management Advisor, 14(1): 5-6. Retrieved from: http://web.ebscohost.com.lib.kaplan.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&hid=126&sid=c6351241-8b8e-41c2-be5d-3f2ec33b02f1%40sessionmgr13.
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