Elaine Klym, clinical educator

With more than 30 years experience working in many different hospice settings, Elaine Klym has gathered decades of knowledge in the care of hospice patients. She constantly uses her experience and expertise to improve hospice care As a clinical educator at Dulcina Hospice, she has a mission to share her ongoing work and ideas with others.

Elaine works tirelessly to develop tools that enable the team to spend more of their time and focus on providing care to residents and their families. This includes developing an online education process to help support annual education for health care workers. She’s also collaborated with the team to create and refine new care planning documents that provide a better focus on resident-oriented care.

While she develops and improves processes for Dulcina Hospice, she shares the resources with her educator colleagues at other sites. She’s also an active participant on a number of committees and associations, contributing her time and expertise to advance hospice care for everyone.

At her own site, Elaine is the “go-to” person. She is always willing to educate her own staff while empowering them to use their own critical thinking to provide better resident care.