Best Practices for Sustainable IDG Staff Care:

• Because hospice teams are Inter-Disciplinary Groups, our strengths are also in our differing points of view... 
We see our patients from different angles: doctors have a viewpoint, aides have a very intimate view, nurses are head and heart focused, medical social workers bridge the world and comfort the mind. Chaplains... chaplains have a Higher framework which they do their human best to offer to all who cross their paths in useful ways. And administrators do the beautiful work of watching over it all.

Best practices are to use our differing strengths. to support each other and our patients. This is true for the circle of care, too.

• Effective IDG Staff Reflections bridge worlds.  As hospice workers, each of us do this every day of our professional life. We serve our hospice patients on the edge of life – where no one wants to be but everyone will be at some point. The following are some IDG reflections that touch down in the real world of science, on the edge of life and what is beyond, but also echo the sacred, as we each understand the sacred to be.

• And they are very, very short. The best reflections are between 3 and 4 minutes - not so short to be gratuitous, but not so long to feel like we should be getting to work. They need to remind us that the circle of care is renewing and that the circle of care is sustaining to us all, only when we participate in the receiving not just the giving.


• HOW TO USE: Audio and Word Docs are attached for each/ most reflections.

• You can play the audio;
• you can read them to your IDG;
• you can adapt them, as you see fit for your IDG team and community.
• Share them freely by email or text (even if you are not using our bereavement mailings... ) but please do so with attribution
  to "IDG Circle of Care Staff Reflections: GofC Bereavement Program, www.GardenofChange.org"
  

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3 Minute IDG Staff Reflections