Name:
Balm of Gilead: Sharing Bad News Pocket Primer
Description:
The Sharing Bad News pocket primer offers a procedure for speaking with patients
and families about end-of-life issues.
Category:
Educational Tools - Clinician Education
Source:
Cooper Green Hospital
The Balm of Gilead Center
1515 Sixth Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35233
www.gileadcenter.com
Contact:
Marc Sussman
sussmanm@jccal.org
About this product:
This is one of five pocket cards that accompany Amos Bailey's book, "The Palliative
Response." The pocket cards are provided for quick reference and can be laminated
for distribution and ready accessibility.
Keywords:
clinical competence, clinical information
To use this tool:
You may print and copy this tool for your own use from this site. Please credit
source.
References:
The Provider Pocket Cards accompany "The Palliative Response" written by Amos
Bailey, M.D. This guide is available online in its entirety at www.hospice.va.gov.
To view this tool:
Left click on the download link to view the PDF document in your Web browser.
Right-click on the download link to save the document to your computer.
PDF
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Posted April 2004
Cooper Green Hospital overview page
# BOG3, type:clinician_education
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families. Visit PromotingExcellence.org for more resources.
