Notes from the article:  Wittenberg-Lyles (2006). Narratives of hospice volunteers: Perspectives on Death and Dying. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 7, 51-56.

1.  Who provides hospice care?
                                                                                                                                              

2. What is the role of a hospice care volunteer?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

3. Who does the volunteer have the most contact with?
                                                                                                                                             

4. What does the reflective process of story-telling allow individuals to do                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

5. How many volunteers were used for the study?
                                                                                                                                             

6. What interview format was used?
                                                                                                                                               

7. What does a functional narrative analysis do?
                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                             

8. What is a “good death?”
                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                             

9. How do hospice volunteers become hospice educators?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

10. As hospice educators, hospice volunteers learn more about
                                                                                                                                              

11. Specifically, many volunteers have written                                                         , selected                                                         , penned                                              , and chosen
                                                                                                                                               
12. Retelling of stories often included a                                                         of death which reinforced their beliefs.
13. When volunteers share their stories with others, they are
                                                                                                                                             
14. Making sense of death also entails understanding and interpreting the dying process. In addition to the biological process that the goes through when dying, there are also                                                   to the death process that need to be understood and explained.
15. What do hospice volunteers have to do to make sense out of in order to contemplate and attribute meaning to life in general?
                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                             
16. What kind of training could hospice volunteers benefit from?
                                                                                                                                             
17. What format would provide instruction, prompt dialogue, enhance listening skills, and aid individuals in crossing the barrier from collecting information to discussing the unknown?
                                                                                                                                             
18. How else could stories shared by hospice volunteers function?
                                                                                                                                             
19. A good hospice volunteer program provides training in what?
                                                                                                                                             

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