Instructions: Watch the six (6) 'Defining Hope' videos. Reflect on what you learned by

creating a written reflection paper. Discuss how your new knowledge and/or skills can be

applied to your practice. Be sure that your reflection incorporates and answers the following:

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Fully discuss the learning concepts explored in the six (6) 'Defining Hope'

videos; what are your five (5) take-aways?

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Explain how your 5 take-aways can be applied to practice.

• In the last video you were introduced to Jose, a heart transplant recipient.

Explain how palliative care could be helpful to Jose's family in the situation you

learned about.

• Considering developmental level, what communication techniques could you use

when Jose says, "sometimes I cry..."? What might you say?

References are not required for this reflection paper. APA format is required. Please see

grading rubric for expectations in the completion of this assignment./nDefining Hope Videos

"Defining Hope is a story about people weighing what matters most at the most fragile

junctures in life, and the nurses who guide them. It's a documentary that follows patients

with life-threatening illness as they make choices about how they want to live, how

much medical technology they can accept, what they hope for and how that hope

evolves when life is threatened. It is optimistic and reminds us that we have choices in

how we die.

This movie is critical and relevant right now, with our rapidly aging population and

incalculable challenges in healthcare and end-of-life care. We aren't dying the way we

used to. We have ventilators, dialysis machines, ICUS-technologies that can "fix" us and

keep our bodies alive-which have radically changed how we make medical decisions. In

our death-denying culture, no matter how sick we get, there is always "hope." The will to

live is a powerful force, and eventually we will all have to make individual decisions when

faced with very complex choices."

These educational materials have been thoughtfully created by the American Nurses Foundation Links to

an external site. and D. Mager, DNP, RN-BC, Associate Professor of Nursing, Fairfield University, for the

American Nurses Foundation, with funding from the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation./nVignette 1: Knowing it's the Right Thing (6 mins): https://vimeo.com/234537487Links

to an external site.

Vignette 2: Remember This Song? (5:08 mins): https://vimeo.com/234538482Links to

an external site.

https://vimeo.com/232984316Links

Vignette 3: Hospice is Hard to Accept (7:39 mins):

to an external site.

Vignette 4: 1 Signed the Papers (6:28 mins): https://vimeo.com/236003578Links to an

external site.

Vignette 5: Is it Worth it? I Don't Know (10:25

mins): https://vimeo.com/236223350Links to an external site.

Vignette 6: I Said "Yes" Because I Want to Live (3:08

mins): https://vimeo.com/236175107Links to an external site.