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.
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