This badge was issued to Karen Pratt on 02 Aug 2022.
End-of-Life Doula Certificate
Earners of this designation are prepared to offer non-medical, compassionate care to those facing the end-of-life, complementing the support provided by hospice, palliative care, and each client's natural network. They understand common terminal conditions and diseases, pain management practices, the active dying process, and helpful interventions to ease client suffering. Earners provide unconditional positive regard and nonjudgmental support while engaging in open dialog with clients.
- Type Learning
- Level Intermediate
- Time Weeks
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Active Dying Process
- After-Death Options
- Anticipatory Grief
- Caregiving Considerations
- Comfort Measures
- Common Terminal Conditions
- Companioning And Serving
- Compassion
- Complementary Care Options
- Cultural Humility
- Cultural Perspectives
- Dementia Care
- Dignity Therapy
- Doula Professional Boundaries
- Doula Role And Scope
- Doula Tenets
- Grief Continuum
- Grounding And Centering
- Guided Imagery
- Holding Space
- Hospice
- Legacy Projects
- Life Reviews
- Mourning And Bereavement
- Non-medical Support
- Pain Management
- Palliative Care
- Personal Death Awareness
- Self-Care Practices
- Serious Illness Conversations
- Specialized Pediatric Care
- Terminal Conditions and Diseases
- Therapeutic Music
- Turning Toward Suffering
- Unconditional Positive Regard
- Universal Safety Precautions
- Vigil Planning
- Vigil Sitting
Earning Criteria
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Successfully completed the intensive, eight-week UVM End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate course