COMFORT CARE FOR THE PALLIATIVE CARE PROVIDER

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COMFORT CARE FOR THE PALLIATIVE CARE PROVIDER

• Chaplain David E. Carl, Jr
• Carolinas Medical Center
• Charlotte, NC

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Palliative Care

• The medical specialty focused on meeting the
  unique needs of someone with a serious illness
  and at times of imminent death.
• Provides expert treatment for the pain, stress,
  and other symptoms that occur with
  life-threatening circumstances.
• Assists patients and families in decision-making
  at critical times.
• How we communicate this comfort care verbally and
  non-verbally is essential.

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Pain and Stress

• Contagious to those of us providing care.
• We also can bring our own personal stressors into
  the room.
• Thoughts and feelings combine to create emotions.
• Emotions change our bodily chemistry.
• One thought can instantly create new chemistry.

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Psychoneuroimmunolgy

• Average human being has 80,000 thoughts each day.
• 80 of those thoughts are negative.
• Each gets instantly transmitted to each of our
  100 trillion cells.
• 64,000 negative transmissions each day.

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• What have been two negative thoughts you have
  generated toward yourself this morning?

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4 Aggreements

• Based on work of Don Miquel Ruez
• Make these 4 agreements with self and your life
  will be instantly transformed.
• A mind transplant

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Agreement 1

• BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD.

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AGREEMENT 2

• DO NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS.

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AGREEMENT 3

• DO NOT TAKES THINGS PERSONALLY.

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AGREEMENT 4

• ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST.

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BREATH PRAYER

• UNITES MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT.
• BRINGS INSTANT FOCUS.
• TRANSMITS OXYGEN TO CELLS AND ASSURANCE TO MIND.
• CAN CHANGE IN FOCUS FROM ONE OCCASION TO ANOTHER.
• SPIRITUAL HYGIENE TOOL

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PALLIATIVE CARE

• TO THE DEGREE THAT WE ARE AT A COMFORT LEVEL
  WITHIN OUR OWN SELVES IS TO THE DEGREE WE CAN
  BRING COMFORT CARE TO ANOTHER.

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PALLIATIVE CARE

• Let there be Palliative Care and let it begin
  with me

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Action Plan

• In the name of comfort care to self name 3 things
  you are going to do differently starting now?