Using the Power of Hope to Cope with Dying: The Four Stages of Hope - Hardcover

Fanslow-Brunjes MA RN, Cathleen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1884956807 ISBN 13: 9781884956805

Publisher: Quill Driver Books, U.S., 2008

Synopsis

Cathleen Fanslow-Brunjes' "Hope System," which incorporates the four stages of hope, is a proven program that has helped more than 40,000 dying individuals at all stages of the dying process. This powerful and simple system enables families, friends, and professional caregivers to understand and assist the dying on their journey. Fanslow-Brunjes shows the reader--both the living and the dying--how to use the power of hope to cope with the inevitable. Offering practical advice in a way readers will be able to use regardless of their beliefs, "Using the Power of Hope to Cope with Dying" addresses all levels of the experience--physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Fanslow-Brunjes is an internationally acclaimed expert in the fields of death, dying, grief, and hospice care. Fanslow-Brunjes developed the "Standards of Care for the Dying Patient" program used throughout the United States Veterans Administration hospital system and the "Standards for Nursing Practice for the Care of the Dying" program used statewide in New York.

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Review

"This potent and inspiring message is highly recommended for both the professional and the nonprofessional end-of-life caregiver." --Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN, author, "Therapeutic Touch as Transpersonal Healing"

"Hope is necessary for survival. It is not about statistics and there is no false hope. This book gives the reader an excellent perspective about the role hope can play in one's life while confronting one's mortality. You can learn to live until you die rather than be dying." --Bernie Siegel, MD, author, "Love, Medicine & Miracles"

"When a person is dying, the sense of having lost all hope is often worse than the prospect of death; this book is an antidote to hopelessness." --Ira Byock, MD, author, "The Four Things That Matter Most"

"Rabindranath Tagore, the great Indian poet, said, 'Hope is the bird that sings before the dawn.' In this wonderful book, Cathleen Fanslow-Brunjes helps us recognize this song so we can harmonize with it. It is when the darkness is the most profound that hope emerges as the true reality. She gives us tools which we can use to create the music of love which each soul needs." --Gladys Taylor McGarey, MD, MD(H), founder and past president, American Holistic Medical Association

""Using the Power of Hope to Cope With Dying" is an inspirational read for those who are facing the ends of their lives and those who are caring for these people in their roughest hour of need. Strongly recommended." --"Midwest Book Review "(September 2012)

""""Using the Power of Hope to Cope With Dying"" is an inspirational read for those who are facing the ends of their lives and those who are caring for these people in their roughest hour of need. Strongly recommended."" --""Midwest Book Review ""(September 2012)

About the Author

Cathleen Fanslow, MA, RN, is an internationally acclaimed expert in the fields of death, dying, grief, nursing, and hospice care who developed the ""Standards of Care for the Dying Patient,"" which is used throughout the U.S. Veterans' Administration Hospital System. An acclaimed pioneer in the field of hospice, she created the Hospice Program for New York's Visiting Nurse Service and the first free-standing hospice in Switzerland, worked at the first certified hospice in Long Island, and was director of nursing at Calvary Hospital in New York, considered by many to be the first hospice in the United States. She is the recipient of the National Hospice Organization's President's Award, the Award for Excellence from the National Hospice Association, the Healer of the Year Award for outstanding achievement in the field of healing from the Nurse Healers Professional Associates, and an award from the New York State Hospice Organization in recognition of extraordinary service to the New York Hospice movement. She lives in Langley, Washington.

Edition details

• Publisher: Quill Driver Books, U.S.
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1884956807
• ISBN 13: 9781884956805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 119