Newsletter December 2020

Dear Readers,

planning educational provisions at present can only happen on very fragile ground. So it was a relief for all of us when we could start the professional training “Palliative Care for Nurses” with half a year’s delay in September. The continuation in November, however, had to be canceled due to COVID 19. Hard as the decisions may be at the moment I still experience those to whom it particularly concerns as very understanding: the participants of the course, the heads of the institution, and the instructors. With further education provisions put on ice there are still a lot of beautiful things to be reported from the other departments of Johannes-Hospiz. Grief counseling of single persons can, if requested, take place out in the open; and, quite differently, two colleagues of the in-patient hospice completed successfully a training with their two dogs, which will allow for an animal based care in the hospice. There has been a several years’ tradition of animal based care at Johannes-Hospiz.