A good roadmap will lead you on a logical path to your destination. That is why we have created the following roadmap for you to compare these two distinct courses. The first section below describes our foundational course, Palliative Care Chaplaincy Specialty Certificate. It is required that you complete this course first (or have obtained Board certification from a professional chaplaincy association) then follow it with the Advanced Palliative Care Chaplaincy Specialty Certificate, the second section of the page below. Please note: These courses are no longer being offered. New courses in chaplaincy will be available in the fall of 2018.
Palliative Care Chaplaincy Courses
Overview
Description
The curriculum builds an essential knowledge base for professionals who deliver spiritual care in a palliative care context affording the opportunity to improve the quality of care delivered to patients and families. The Specialty Certificate course provides a foundation of knowledge and practice built on the applicable areas of the National Consensus Project’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care and the National Quality Forum’s National Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality.
The course is a fully online program, delivered in a continuously available and easily accessible format that allows chaplains greater flexibility in balancing work responsibilities with furthering their education.
This foundational course teaches participants to:
- Articulate and integrate current evidence for the provision of chaplaincy/spiritual care in palliative care.
- Provide patient-centered, family-focused spiritual care that understands and respects diversity in all its dimensions.
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of ethical and legal issues in palliative care.
- Foster and enhance interprofessional and team relationships within all levels of the organization.
- Incorporate awareness of, and respect for, professional boundaries when providing spiritual care.
- Incorporate family systems theory in the practice of palliative care on a team, patient/family, and institutional level.
- Articulate important spiritual, existential and emotional concepts for patients and families in palliative care, including faith, hope, forgiveness, meaninglessness and remorse.
- Identify how psychology and social meaning overlap in spirituality research.
This foundational course is ideal for:
- Chaplains working in health care settings who seek to gain fundamental knowledge about palliative care.
- Palliative care chaplains with a desire to increase their leadership skills, increase their effectiveness as administrators, and ability to articulate the contributions of spirituality as an integral part of palliative care.
- Board certified chaplains preparing for specialty certification from a professional chaplaincy association.
- Palliative care clinicians from all disciplines who wish to learn more about the role of spirituality in a comprehensive palliative care practice.
- CPE students whose supervisors desire them to receive an introduction to the work and responsibilities of a palliative care chaplain.
- Department directors who seek to develop a chaplaincy component within a palliative care team.
This foundational course is open to: (Requirements for Admission) - Board Certified and non-board certified chaplains as well as other care providers interested in spirituality practice in palliative care
Advanced Palliative Care Chaplaincy Specialty Certificate
Overview: The Advanced Course
Description
This is an advanced course for experienced chaplains and other clinical practitioners who work directly on and contribute to palliative care teams. The course explores specific topics in an in-depth manner that requires participants to engage in deeper critical thinking which can be articulated into advanced practice, enhancing their professional practice and leadership in the provision of spiritual care as an integral component of palliative care.
The course is a fully online program, delivered in a continuously available and easily accessible format that allows chaplains greater flexibility in balancing work responsibilities with furthering their education.
This course teaches participants to:
- Integrate knowledge of palliative care into contributions to the plan of care
- Distinguish and demonstrate application of ways in which chaplains assist patients and families, in partnership with the team, in identifying the benefits and burdens of specific medical interventions
- Demonstrate and apply expertise in palliative care communication skills to assist in goal clarification in patient/family meetings
- Through spiritual assessment, define, document, formulate goals, interventions, and plans that can be articulated clearly in each palliative care situation, applied appropriately, and modified based on changes in the status of patient or situation
- Utilize QI data to refine palliative care programs and services specific to chaplaincy.
- Identify, recommend, and integrate diversity concepts, needs, and interventions into patient/family care plans
- Analyze the needs and construct assessments and interventions specific to marginalized patient populations
- Identify and execute best practices for incorporating chaplaincy assessment and documentation planning/continuity of care
This advanced course is ideal for:
- Chaplains who have completed the Palliative Care Chaplaincy Care Certificate who want to build upon that knowledge base and continue to develop their skills to improve patient outcomes.
- Board certified chaplains wishing to enhance preparation for a specialty certification from a professional chaplaincy association.
- Department directors who meet the course requirements and desire to build upon the expertise and contributions of the palliative care team.
Admission to the Advanced Palliative Care Chaplaincy Specialty Certificate is limited to those individuals who have:
- Obtained Board certification from a professional chaplaincy association.
- Successfully completed the CSU Palliative Care Chaplaincy Specialty Certificate
