Chapter 5: The Doctor: That’s How Death Should Be
Overview:
- A case study and insight on how a doctor felt death should be dealt with
- Explanations and demonstration on the benefits of having a chaplain
- Discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of having a volunteer personnel in the nursing home and gives advice to current volunteers
- An activities coordinator shares their personal insights into losing a resident and dealing with grief
Description:
This chapter provides examples of significant relationships formed when the doctor, the chaplain, the volunteer, the student and the activities staff are included in the team.
Topics:
- The doctor: that’s how death should be
- The chaplain: I wore my best dress
- The volunteer: I learned so much from Flora
- The student: there is life in a nursing home
- Allied health staff: Mary’s final fling
Speaker / Author:
Rosalie Hudson
Rosalie Hudson is Director off Nursing at Harold McCracken House in Melbourne, Australia, where a palliative care philosophy provides the framework for the care of residents who are dying, and a partnership philosophy guides all relationships. Rosalie’s postgraduate research in gerontic nursing and theology has stimulated further insights for several journal articles and for this second book on living and dying in a nursing home. Personhood, death and community are the themes for her PhD thesis, inspired by the ordinary and extraordinary experiences in a rather special nursing home. Rosalie is married with a daughter, two sons, two daughters-in-law and three grandchildren.
Jennifer Richmond
Jennifer Richmond’s first career was in nursing. In hindsight, she says, the highlight of her nursing years was a long association with Melbourne’s Harold McCracken House. During this time her creative partnership with Rosalie yielded a valued friendship and a number of nursing publications. At Harold McCracken House Jennifer worked with many extraordinary and gifted staff, one of whom is novelist Michel Faber whose photographs appear in this book. After the privilege of an editing association with Ausmed Publications and a postgraduate qualification in editing and writing, Jennifer now writes fiction and works part-time as an in house medical and scientific editor for a major publisher. She lives in inner city Melbourne with her family, which includes dogs Minnie and John.
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