Integrate palliative care into your daily practice. Master complex communication skills and learn tools to screen for palliative needs and offer basic palliative care.

Instructors: Jan DeNofrio +3 more

What you'll learn

  •   The scope and role of palliative care as part of a patient and family's care plan
  •   Components of a treatment plan for physical, psychosocial, and spiritual care, including screening, assessment and management of patient needs
  •   Effective communication skills for responding to emotion, delivering difficult news, and discussing goals of care
  •   Issues around transitions in care (e.g. survivorship or hospice transition)
  • Skills you'll gain

  •   Care Coordination
  •   Communication
  •   Cultural Sensitivity
  •   Telehealth
  •   Caregiving
  •   Nursing Care
  •   Home Health Care
  •   Patient Treatment
  •   Patient Education And Counseling
  •   Nursing Practices
  •   Care Management
  •   Patient Education and Support
  • Specialization - 5 course series

    In the core courses, learners will develop patient-provider dialogs applying communications skills to discuss goals of care, symptom management, transitions in care and family and caregiver support. In the capstone course, learners will create public materials to expand the general public’s palliative care literacy along with care plans to support families and caregivers of patients with serious illness and practice mock virtual/remote care.

    Symptom Management in Palliative Care

    Transitions in Care from Survivorship to Hospice

    Supporting Families and Caregivers

    Palliative Care Always Capstone Course

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