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PA Certificate in Palliative and Serious Illness Care
Learn evidence-based approaches essential to primary palliative care, including communication, advance care planning, prognostication, assessing, and treating common physical symptoms of serious illnesses, care at the end of life, and more.
Cost: $1,595
Course Length: 12 Weeks
Format: Instructor-led, Online
Advanced Practice RN Certificate in Palliative Care
Transform your career. Learn evidence-based approaches in pain and symptom management to help support resilience and ease patients' suffering. Help patients and families identify care goals of care. Build interdisciplinary teams.
Cost: $4,290
Course Length: 9 Months
Format: Instructor-led, Online
Integrating Advance Care Planning Into Your Medical Practice
This 2-hour course outlines how to integrate advance care planning into your daily work, using best practices to improve patient and practice outcomes.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 2 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Sharing Serious News
This is an online, self-paced course that will equip you for difficult conversations with clear and effective strategies that improve communication, encourage empathy, and reduce stress for patients, families, and the palliative care team.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 2 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Communication Strategies for Shared and Informed Decision Making
This course delivers an overview of communication strategies for engaging patients throughout the decision-making process, including identifying goals of care, activating shared decision making, and overcoming barriers of communication.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 2 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Basic Pediatric Pain and Symptom Assessment and Management
Assessing and managing pain is a fundamental part of high quality palliative care and it requires a specialized approach when caring for infants, children, teens, or young adults. This course comprises four modules that highlight important considerations and effective clinical strategies in assessing and managing pain in infants, children, teens, and young adults.
Cost: $65
Course Length: 4 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
What Every PA Needs to Know About Palliative Care
This course explores the fundamentals of palliative care and delivers a number of tools to help PAs improve care delivery for patients with serious illnesses. Learn how to assess the need for palliative care, delivering bad news, and understand advance care planning.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
What Every Physician Needs to Know About Palliative Care
This course provides physicians in primary care with an introduction to palliative care practice, including how to assess the need for palliative care, conducting advance care planning discussions, sharing difficult news, and more.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
Foundational Pediatric Care Delivery
This self-paced course takes a deep dive into the differences between palliative care and hospice, and how they differ for adults and children. It reviews concurrent care for children, including how to identify patients who are eligible, exploring a wide range of pediatric diagnoses, common medical devices used in children with serious illness, and important elements of care coordination.
Cost: $87
Course Length: 5.5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Spiritual, Religious, and Existential Aspects of Care
This course helps you develop an approach to identify, evaluate, and address spiritual, religious, and existential concerns, and presents assessment tools and strategies for coping, and referral guidelines to intertwine quality healthcare with spiritual care.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
Foundational Pediatric Pain and Symptom Assessment and Management
Assessing and managing pain in seriously ill infants, children, teens, or young adults is integral to high quality pediatric palliative care. This 7-hour course highlights key considerations and effective clinical strategies needed to address the physical symptoms of advanced illness in young patients, including patients with medically complex conditions.
Cost: $109
Course Length: 7 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Primary Palliative Care Skills Every Provider Series
Improve patient care, reduce costs, learn when to refer and how to bill for palliative care services. Earn accredited CEs or CMEs with this evidence-based curriculum series, created specifically for clinicians in all settings who are caring for chronic and seriously ill patients.
Cost: $879
Course Length: 24.5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Advanced Pediatric Care Delivery
This course explores the key clinical features of rare complex conditions seen in pediatric hospice and palliative care. Learn how you can help parents advocate for their child while recognizing the limits of medical interventions, and identifying medical and psychosocial resources for families of children with rare/complicated diagnoses.
Cost: $65
Course Length: 2 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Advanced Communication Skills for Pediatric Patient and Family Support
This course explores topics central to communicating with young patients and their families, including clarifying goals and values to facilitate decision making, responding to families that wish to limit information to young patients, and managing conflict.
Cost: $87
Course Length: 5.5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Advanced Concepts in Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients
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 course focuses on some of the most difficult emotional and spiritual aspects of caring for young patients at the end of life, including transference and countertransference, trauma-informed care, types of grief, caring for diverse families, and empowering patients and families in end-of-life decision making.
Cost: $120
Course Length: 4.5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Advanced Pediatric Pain and Symptom Assessment and Management
This self-paced course delivers robust clinical skills aimed at effectively assessing and managing physical pain and understanding psychosocial factors that can impact physical suffering in seriously ill or terminally ill infants, children, teens, and young adults.
Cost: $138
Course Length: 8.5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Basic Pediatric Care Delivery
This course examines the use of medical technology such as feeding tubes, central lines, and respiratory devices in young patients with serious illness. It covers how to maintain these devices, and how to support patients and families in device management.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Integrating Pallative Care Into Practice
This course explores how to efficiently and effectively integrate palliative care services into everyday practice, including how to bill for palliative care.
Cost: $83
Course Length: 2 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Cultural Aspects of Care
This course explores the cultural sensitivity tools, suggestions, and approaches for patients and their loved ones during stressful illness.
Cost: $83
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Social Aspects of Care
Living with serious illness can be stressful for patients and families. Addressing psychosocial distress is critical to supporting patients and families through the journey of serious illness, and delivering quality whole-person care. Explore strategies and skills to assess how patients are coping with disease management and prognosis, and processing the prospect of dying.
Cost: $109
Course Length: 3 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Physical Aspects of Care
This course equips providers in primary care, oncology, hematology, or other practice settings with the latest clinical strategies to effectively assess and manage pain and other distressing symptoms in patients with serious illnesses.
It includes in-depth content and guidelines on the use of opioids, as well as integrative and complementary therapies that can ease symptom burden along the disease trajectory.
Cost: $219
Course Length: 6 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Introduction to Primary Palliative Care
This course delivers a clear and efficient overview of palliative care, how it's delivered across a variety of settings, and how to identify patients who need it. You'll explore the evidence base for palliative care, learn to identify common trajectories of serious illness, discover new tools for supporting patients with chronic or serious illness, and utilize case studies and interactive exercises to build your prognostication skills.
Cost: $109
Course Length: 3 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Care of the Patient at the End of Life
Caring for patients nearing end of life requires an increased level of knowledge and skills. This course delivers evidence-based tools and resources in prognostication, communication, and symptom management, helping you better identify and support these patients and their families. You'll also learn about regulatory and ethical issues, as well as hospice eligibility, coverage, and admission.
Cost: $164
Course Length: 4 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Communication and Advance Care Planning
Effective communication skills are essential to quality healthcare, and especially crucial for providers caring for patients with chronic or serious disease. This course delivers strategies for improving communication with patients and families while reducing barriers to effective communication about diagnosis, prognosis and serious illness.
Cost: $109
Course Length: 3 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Communication Strategies for Shared and Informed Decision Making CME
This course delivers an overview of communication strategies for engaging patients throughout the decision-making process, including identifying goals of care, activating shared decision making, and overcoming barriers of communication.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 2 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Sharing Serious News CME
This is an online, self-paced course that will equip you for difficult conversations with clear and effective strategies that improve communication, encourage empathy, and reduce stress for patients, families, and the palliative care team.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 2 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
What Every Physician Needs to Know About Palliative Care CME
This course provides physicians in primary care with an introduction to palliative care practice, including how to assess the need for palliative care, conducting advance care planning discussions, sharing difficult news, and more.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
Self-Care Resilience for Palliative Care Clinicians
This 1-hour self-paced course will help you understand the principles of self-care, and the risks and symptoms of moral distress, compassion fatigue, and burnout. You'll learn practical self-care strategies, including evidence-based mindfulness practices, team-based supports, how to develop a self-care plan, and how to build self-care habits into your life and work.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
Self-Care and Resilience for Palliative Care Clinicians CME
This 1-hour self-paced course will help you understand the principles of self-care, and the risks and symptoms of moral distress, compassion fatigue, and burnout. You'll learn practical self-care strategies, including evidence-based mindfulness practices, team-based supports, how to develop a self-care plan, and how to build self-care habits into your life and work.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online