•        What Patients are Facing: The State of Patient Safety and How Professionals can Help  
       Patients become their own Safety Officers
  •       The difficult patient: Who are they and what do they want?
  •        The Gift of Advance Care Planning
  •        Looking at Chronic and Terminal Illness through a Child's Eyes
  •        Using The Power of Illness and Dying to enhance your own life      
  •        What is an effective patient advocate? How you and proactive patients/family members can
       work well together
  •        The lost patient: Techniques to pass along to reduce the overwhelming job of being a           
       patient
  •        Death and Western medicine: Death is not a failure
  •        More than just a body—The mind/body/soul differentiation
  •        Illness and God: Are we being punished? A patient’s struggle with the meaning of illness
  •        What is it like to be sick or dying? A window into a day in the life of the dying
  •        Understanding how illness can dis-empower a person and how professionals may help to
      empower a patient
  •        The importance of peace for patients and how to create it
  •        The Death Bed Myth and how it can impact the dying process
  •        The Illness Identity Crisis
  •        Complementary: A patient perspective on alternative care for symptoms without adding
       medications (ex. Massage, acupuncture)
  •        Techniques for coping with pain and discomfort
  •        The delicate nature of relationships with family and friends when facing illness
  •        The Opportunities of Illness
  •       Healing vs. Medicating
Dear Tiffany,
Thank you for your
presentation today.  It was
a life-changing experience
for me personally and
professionally.

Ronald M. Perkin, MD, MA
Chairman
Department of Pediatrics
The Brody School of
Medicine



“With the rare perspective
of someone who has lived
long years with debilitating
disease and has twice
edged up to the life/death
transition, Tiffany now
offers her insight,
knowledge and
experience...”

-Glen Tig,
Psychotherapist,   Chapel
Hill, NC
Offering The Patient Perspective

Tiffany Christensen provides a rare insight into the patient's world.

Please contact Tiffany to schedule talks or workshops for:

  • Grand Rounds or Professional In-Services
  • Healthcare-Related Conferences
  • Patient Safety Events
  • Students currently studying to enter the healthcare field

Tiffany is a certified Respecting Choices Instructor and a
TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer.
Below are some of the common topics Tiffany touches on when addressing professionals.
Please note that each talk or workshop is customized for the specific audience and venue.  
* Life in the Deathbed *
* Being Patient: A Patient/Caregiver Improv *
* Finding Your Voice as a Caring Professional *
* Partnering with Patients: A Bed’s Eye View of Patient Safety *
* Growing Up Dying: Shifting the Pediatric Patient Paradigm *
* Chronic Emergency: The ED Through the Eyes of a Lifelong Patient *
* The Permanent Me: A One Woman Show about Loving Life through Accepting Death *