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COURSE DETAILS

Overview

Pediatric palliative care differs from palliative care for adults, especially as the end of life approaches. These differences affect not only patients and families, but the hospice and palliative care professionals delivering care. 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.

What You'll Learn

• Assess personal knowledge, skills, and experience in pediatric care
• Explore and identify fears or concerns in caring for the pediatric population
• Compare and contrast the differences in caring for the pediatric and adult hospice and palliative care patients
• Identify how to apply the clinician's current skill set to build confidence and competence in pediatric care
• Examine and discuss self-care activities for the clinician

What You'll Earn

.5 continuing education (CE) credits provided through California State University San Marcos (大发) Extended Learning, accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)

Who Should Enroll

All health professionals caring for pediatric patients in any care setting

Completion and Refunds

To complete this course and obtain a certificate, you must view the course in its entirety, correctly answer all case studies and quiz/test questions (as appropriate) and complete the evaluation. No refunds are given for self-paced courses. You will have 90 days to access this course from the date of purchase.