
MANAGEMENT
Learn how creative self-expression promotes healing and how to guide others in art activities that help them ease anxiety, process grief, and build resilience.
Cost: $329
Course Length: 6 Weeks
Format: Instructor-led, Online
This online course explores strategies to encourage patient participation in advance care planning conversations. Case studies illustrate how Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are used in various scenarios, followed by an interactive exercise to help students apply the knowledge learned in the course.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
This 1-hour course delivers strategies for conducting advance care planning discussions with patients and families by focusing on their goals and what matters most to them. Learn when and how to confidently begin advance care planning conversations, and apply concepts and skills through interactive activities.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
Developed in partnership with the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, this course helps health professionals understand the role and value of this document, and how to use it when documenting and honoring patient wishes.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 2 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
This course provides a comprehensive overview of advance care planning that can be used to orient and train all staff regarding the importance of documenting care preferences.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
This course provides all health professionals with a common framework to understand palliative care and equips them with essential tools to implement a unified, holistic, and patient-centered care plan.
Cost: $138
Course Length: 5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Learn about nutritional therapies in palliative care, including supportive nutrition, nutrition screening vs. assessment, the underlying dynamics of food-drug interactions, and how nutrition affects common symptoms of serious illness.
Cost: $76
Course Length: 3 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
For people with chronic or serious illness, good nutrition is an essential part of holistic palliative care. Developed by nutrition experts, with generous support from The Westreich Foundation, this two-course series explores the latest research and offers practical approaches for using nutrition to improve quality of life in any stage of illness. Purchase the full series or individual courses.
Cost: $109
Course Length: 5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Learn the fundamentals of palliative care and enhance skills that help you build stronger and supportive connections with seriously ill patients and their families.
Cost: $439
Course Length: 20 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Palliative care has been shown to improve clinical outcomes, reduce unnecessary readmissions, and lower costs for many hospitals and health systems. Clinical and administrative leaders need a framework for evaluating data that shows how palliative care services impact their organization.
Developed by a nationally recognized team of clinicians and analysts, this course provides a roadmap for gathering the data needed to make the case for creating, sustaining, or expanding your palliative care services.
Cost: $252
Course Length: 4 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Aromatherapy, or the use of essential oils to promote well-being, has a growing base of research in modern health care. Learn how aromatherapy can support palliative care patients and their families.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 4 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Learn more about the principles of palliative care, the typical composition of the palliative care team, ways to identify patients who can benefit from palliative care, and key concepts in advance care planning.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
In this course, you'll explore the role of nutrition in palliative care, the importance of food quality, how social determinants of health affect accessibility to healthy food options, and strategies for using healthy food choices to connect families to their culture and identity.
Cost: $65
Course Length: 2 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
This course examines the complex ethical concerns that hospice and palliative care professionals may encounter and delivers important strategies to build resilience and facilitate communication.
Cost: $98
Course Length: 6.5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
In pediatric palliative care, honest, respectful, and open communication is essential to supporting children, teens, and young adults and their families, and to providing quality, compassionate care.
This course explores how to determine the right time for an initial home visit with a pediatric patient and family, help care for other children who may be present, build rapport with young patients and families, and have difficult conversations.
Cost: $65
Course Length: 4 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
The progressive illness or impending death of an infant, child, teen, or young adult can cause profound grief in the patient as well as the family. This self-paced online course prepares hospice and palliative care professionals to recognize and address the emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual suffering of children, teens, and young adults nearing the end of life and their families.
Cost: $120
Course Length: 8 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
This course introduces you to the challenges, benefits, and value of pediatric palliative care and offers a starting point for building skills to effectively support infants, children, teens, or young adults with serious illness, and their families.
Cost: $39
Course Length: 5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Designed for social workers, chaplains, child life specialists, and other team members, our Pediatric Palliative Care Certificate curriculum features rigorous, interactive online education for hospice, palliative care, and home health professionals to get the knowledge and skills they need to effectively support infants, children, teens, and young adults with serious illnesses.
Cost: $549
Course Length: 37.5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
This course delivers the knowledge, tools, and resources to empower hospice and palliative care teams to create a culture of collaboration and support in which all members can thrive in their work.
Cost: $98
Course Length: 6 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
This course describes the challenges and joys of communicating with pediatric patients and their families, demonstrates how evidence-based communication tools can be applied in those populations, and reinforces how genuine communication is key in adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
This course provides practical tools and resources to help healthcare professionals recognize the warning signs of moral distress, identify their own beliefs and habits that may lead to burn-out or compassion fatigue, and utilize practical strategies for self-care and resilience-building.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
Cost: $50
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
This online course explores strategies to encourage patient participation in advance care planning conversations. Case studies illustrate how Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are used in various scenarios, followed by an interactive exercise to help students apply the knowledge learned in the course.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
Explore discipline-specific and team-focused strategies for ensuring that your documentation facilitates communication and supports effective and productive relationships within the team and referral sources. If you are looking to build a more cohesive team and improve documentation and referral processes, this course is for you.
Cost: $186
Course Length: 3 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Learners enrolled in this course explore aspects of diversity, equity, and inclusion to develop self-awareness and build professional skills that promote a safe and welcoming workplace environment.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 3 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online